Billy Higgins
[3] He then freelanced extensively with hard bop and other post-bop players, including Donald Byrd, Dexter Gordon, Grant Green, Herbie Hancock, Joe Henderson, Don Cherry, Paul Horn, Milt Jackson, Jackie McLean, Pat Metheny, Hank Mobley, Thelonious Monk, Lee Morgan, David Murray, Art Pepper, Sonny Rollins, Mal Waldron, and Cedar Walton.[3] He also collaborated with composer La Monte Young and guitarist Sandy Bull.In 1989, Higgins cofounded a cultural center, The World Stage, in Los Angeles to encourage and promote younger jazz musicians.Higgins also taught in the jazz studies program at the University of California, Los Angeles.[4] Billy Higgins died of kidney and liver failure on May 3, 2001, at a hospital in Inglewood, California.