After graduating from Dunbar High School, in Washington, D.C., and after serving in the U.S. Navy as a Hospital Corpsman, Mr. McNeill attended Morehouse College, in Atlanta, from which he graduated in June of 1961 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. His Major was Art. His art teachers at Spelman College, the sister college to Morehouse College, were Professors Jenellse Holloway, and Edwin Cerney.
During his senior year exhibit, he met Professor James A. Porter, the long-time Chairman of the Art Department at Howard University. Professor Porter offered Mr. McNeill a full-tuition scholarship to become Howard's first student to pursue a Master of Fine Arts Degree. His studies would begin in September of 1961.
While a student at Morehouse College, Mr. McNeill often performed, on the conga drum, with The Lloyd Terry Band, and with the singer, Nina Simone, whenever she came to perform in Atlanta during his three years at Morehouse College.
On one occasion, in Atlanta, he performed with the Lionel Hampton Band, as well.
At Howard University, Mr. McNeill studied printmaking, and fresco painting, with the Master Printer, James Lesesne Wells, easel painting, with Professor James A. Porter, water color painting, with Professor Lois Mailou Jones, and Figure Drawing, with Professor Lila Asher. His art history professor was Professor David Wilkie.
While touring as a conga drum player, with The Howard University Players, under the direction of Professor Owen Dodson, in an African adaptation of the Greek tragedy "Medea," at Dartmouth College, Mr. McNeill met an art professor, Richard Wagner, and The Director of Fine Arts, Warner Bentley, who subsequently invited him to be the 1963-64 "Artist-In-Residence" at that institution.
During his year at Dartmouth, he produced many water color paintings, encaustic paintings, and ink drawings. In addition, he taught Figure Drawing, Two Dimensional Design, and painting. He had two exhibitions of his works during that year.
From 1964-65, he lived in Paris, with his good friend, the saxophonist, Andrew White, with whom he had developed a friendship at Howard University. They had performed together in the Howard University Concert Band, and the Woodwind Quintet.
In Paris, Mr. McNeill did further study in printmaking with Professor Bernard Clairain, a Master Lithographer, at Paris' L'École Nationale Des Beaux Arts, and studied French at The Alliance Française.
During his residence in France, and while performing in the south of France, with the Guatemalan guitarist/singer Julio Arenas Menas, he spent a considerable amount of time with Pablo Picasso and his wife, Jacqueline , in Cannes.
While in Cannes, Mr. McNeill was invited to return home to assume the position of Spelman College's first Artist-In-Residence, from 1965-66.
Then, from September, 1966 until June, of 1969, he taught Fresco Painting, and illustration, part-time, at Howard University.
During the school year, 1969-70, he commuted from his home in Washington, D. C., to teach, Afro-American Music History at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, on a part-time schedule.
In June of 1970, he began teaching at Rutgers University on a full-time basis, where he remained for thirty-three years, as a Professor of the History of Afro-American Music, and as a Professor of drawing and painting, and teaching private flute performance technique. During those early years at Rutgers University, Mr. McNeill was instrumental in launching the Jazz Studies Program at Mason Gross School of the Arts, at Rutgers University.
In 1972, Mr. McNeill received a U.S. Department of State S.T.A.G Grant (Short Term Artists' Grant) for travel and research to West Africa: Senegal, Benin, (then, Dahomey), The Ivory Coast, Ghana, and Nigeria, where he was invited to exhibit several of his paintings, to read his poetry, to speak to students of French, or English at universities, and to perform with local musicians in those countries. In Nigeria, he was a guest for some few days in the home of the famed Nigerian musician Fela Ransome-Kuti, and performed with the artist at his night club, in Lagos, Nigeria.
Mr. McNeill was a Guest Lecturer at the Skowhegan Summer School of Art, in 1980.
Mr. McNeill retired from his tenured position, at Rutgers University, in 2003, as Professor Emeritus.
For five years during his tenure at Rutgers University, and approximately six years after his retirement, he was a guest- lecturer, at New York University's "Gallatin School of Individualized Study", in a course of Professor Laurin Raiken, entitled, "Art, Artists, and Social Change,"
Mr. McNeill studied music composition privately with the composer Hale Smith, Jazz theory and flute technique with the jazz musician Eric Dolphy, in the entire Summer of '63.
After moving to New York, in 1970, Mr. McNeill studied classical flute technique, and repertoire, with the flutist Harold Jones for twelve years. His first lessons in photography were in depth, and sensitively offered to him by a neighbor, Irene Stern, who had had extensive training in her native Switzerland, and professional experience working as a photographer in New York City.
For sixteen years, Mr. McNeill studied Kanji, a Japanese writing style, with the Master Calligrapher Tsuyoshi Takemori.
Lloyd McNeill has exhibited his paintings and drawings at several galleries, museums, and colleges in the U.S. Northeast. He has published two volumes of poems: Blackline: A Collection of Poems, Drawings and Photographs, and After the Rain: A Collection of New Poems. In 2007, Lloyd McNeill was chosen by the USPS (The United States Postal Service), to design a postage stamp for the celebration of the holiday, Kwanzaa in 2009.
During the 60.s, 70,s, and 80,s, McNeill collaborated with the Master silk screen printmaker, Lou Stovall, in Washington, D.C., to produce a large volume of prints of political, educational, arts-related, corporate significance, and more, many of which are now collected art works.
In New York, in the 1970's, Mr. McNeill played solo flute in Dr. Glory Van Scott's "Miss Truth," a Musical Play about the life and political activism of Sojourner Truth (Directed by Louis Johnson). In each performance of "Miss Truth," at a side of the stage, and between his intermittent flute playing, Mr. McNeill created a large, and immortalizing, portrait of the dying "Sojourner Truth" who sat, with head bowed, at the center of the stage. The early performances of Dr. Van Scott's piece were presented during several weeks at the famed Apollo Theater, in Harlem. In addition, "Miss Truth" was presented as one of the initiating theater pieces for the newly-inaugurated National Theater, at The Kennedy Center, in Washington, D.C.
Mr. McNeill has performed solo flute improvisations with the following dancers, performing solo, and/or with their companies: Jeanette Leentvaar, Erica Thimey, "Barbara Roan, And The Blue Mountain Paper Parade", Sybil Huskey, Carol Fonda, and Margaret Beals.
Mr. McNeill composed the album "Washington Suite" (The Lloyd McNeill Quartet, 1970) for The Doris Jones/ Claire Haywood, (Directors) "Capital Ballet Company" (Washington, D.C.)
"Washington Suite," Lloyd McNeill (Flute), Eugene Rush, (piano), Eric Gravatt, (Drums), Marshall Hawkins, (Bass),
The Alvin Ailey ensemble dance piece, "Slaves," includes a musical composition by Mr. McNeill.
Discography:
• 1969: "Asha," (Lloyd McNeill (Flute), Gene Rush (Piano), Steve Novosel (bass), Eric Gravatt (Drums),
• 1969: "Tanner Suite" (duo with bassist Marshall Hawkins)
• 1970: "Washington Suite" Lloyd McNeill (Flute), Eugene Rush, (piano), Eric Gravatt, (Drums), Marshall Hawkins,
• 1976: "Treasures." (with Dom Salvador (piano), Cecil McBee (bass), Ray Armando (percussion), Brian Brake (drums), and Portinho (percussion).
• 1978: "Tori." (with Dom Salvador, Amaury Tristao, John LaBarbera (guitar), Buster Williams (bass), Victor Lewis (drums), Dom Um Romao (percussion), Nana Vasconcelos, (percussion). and Howard Johnson (Tuba).
• 1980: "Elegia," (with Susan Osborne (vocals,) Dom Salvador (piano), Cecil McBee, (Bass), Nana Vasconcelos (Percussion and voice), Portinho (Percussion), Claudio Celso, (accoustic guitar).
• 1998: "Ex.Tem.Por.E", with Richard Kimball, piano.
Mr. McNeill's albums are reissued by the London-based company, "Soul Jazz."
http://www.souljazzrecords.co.uk/releases/?id=19377
https://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=lloyd+McNeill
http://www.hipwax.com/music/patch/flute_lm.html
http://aavad.com/artistbibliog.cfm?id=176
During his senior year exhibit, he met Professor James A. Porter, the long-time Chairman of the Art Department at Howard University. Professor Porter offered Mr. McNeill a full-tuition scholarship to become Howard's first student to pursue a Master of Fine Arts Degree. His studies would begin in September of 1961.
While a student at Morehouse College, Mr. McNeill often performed, on the conga drum, with The Lloyd Terry Band, and with the singer, Nina Simone, whenever she came to perform in Atlanta during his three years at Morehouse College.
On one occasion, in Atlanta, he performed with the Lionel Hampton Band, as well.
At Howard University, Mr. McNeill studied printmaking, and fresco painting, with the Master Printer, James Lesesne Wells, easel painting, with Professor James A. Porter, water color painting, with Professor Lois Mailou Jones, and Figure Drawing, with Professor Lila Asher. His art history professor was Professor David Wilkie.
While touring as a conga drum player, with The Howard University Players, under the direction of Professor Owen Dodson, in an African adaptation of the Greek tragedy "Medea," at Dartmouth College, Mr. McNeill met an art professor, Richard Wagner, and The Director of Fine Arts, Warner Bentley, who subsequently invited him to be the 1963-64 "Artist-In-Residence" at that institution.
During his year at Dartmouth, he produced many water color paintings, encaustic paintings, and ink drawings. In addition, he taught Figure Drawing, Two Dimensional Design, and painting. He had two exhibitions of his works during that year.
From 1964-65, he lived in Paris, with his good friend, the saxophonist, Andrew White, with whom he had developed a friendship at Howard University. They had performed together in the Howard University Concert Band, and the Woodwind Quintet.
In Paris, Mr. McNeill did further study in printmaking with Professor Bernard Clairain, a Master Lithographer, at Paris' L'École Nationale Des Beaux Arts, and studied French at The Alliance Française.
During his residence in France, and while performing in the south of France, with the Guatemalan guitarist/singer Julio Arenas Menas, he spent a considerable amount of time with Pablo Picasso and his wife, Jacqueline , in Cannes.
While in Cannes, Mr. McNeill was invited to return home to assume the position of Spelman College's first Artist-In-Residence, from 1965-66.
Then, from September, 1966 until June, of 1969, he taught Fresco Painting, and illustration, part-time, at Howard University.
During the school year, 1969-70, he commuted from his home in Washington, D. C., to teach, Afro-American Music History at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, on a part-time schedule.
In June of 1970, he began teaching at Rutgers University on a full-time basis, where he remained for thirty-three years, as a Professor of the History of Afro-American Music, and as a Professor of drawing and painting, and teaching private flute performance technique. During those early years at Rutgers University, Mr. McNeill was instrumental in launching the Jazz Studies Program at Mason Gross School of the Arts, at Rutgers University.
In 1972, Mr. McNeill received a U.S. Department of State S.T.A.G Grant (Short Term Artists' Grant) for travel and research to West Africa: Senegal, Benin, (then, Dahomey), The Ivory Coast, Ghana, and Nigeria, where he was invited to exhibit several of his paintings, to read his poetry, to speak to students of French, or English at universities, and to perform with local musicians in those countries. In Nigeria, he was a guest for some few days in the home of the famed Nigerian musician Fela Ransome-Kuti, and performed with the artist at his night club, in Lagos, Nigeria.
Mr. McNeill was a Guest Lecturer at the Skowhegan Summer School of Art, in 1980.
Mr. McNeill retired from his tenured position, at Rutgers University, in 2003, as Professor Emeritus.
For five years during his tenure at Rutgers University, and approximately six years after his retirement, he was a guest- lecturer, at New York University's "Gallatin School of Individualized Study", in a course of Professor Laurin Raiken, entitled, "Art, Artists, and Social Change,"
Mr. McNeill studied music composition privately with the composer Hale Smith, Jazz theory and flute technique with the jazz musician Eric Dolphy, in the entire Summer of '63.
After moving to New York, in 1970, Mr. McNeill studied classical flute technique, and repertoire, with the flutist Harold Jones for twelve years. His first lessons in photography were in depth, and sensitively offered to him by a neighbor, Irene Stern, who had had extensive training in her native Switzerland, and professional experience working as a photographer in New York City.
For sixteen years, Mr. McNeill studied Kanji, a Japanese writing style, with the Master Calligrapher Tsuyoshi Takemori.
Lloyd McNeill has exhibited his paintings and drawings at several galleries, museums, and colleges in the U.S. Northeast. He has published two volumes of poems: Blackline: A Collection of Poems, Drawings and Photographs, and After the Rain: A Collection of New Poems. In 2007, Lloyd McNeill was chosen by the USPS (The United States Postal Service), to design a postage stamp for the celebration of the holiday, Kwanzaa in 2009.
During the 60.s, 70,s, and 80,s, McNeill collaborated with the Master silk screen printmaker, Lou Stovall, in Washington, D.C., to produce a large volume of prints of political, educational, arts-related, corporate significance, and more, many of which are now collected art works.
In New York, in the 1970's, Mr. McNeill played solo flute in Dr. Glory Van Scott's "Miss Truth," a Musical Play about the life and political activism of Sojourner Truth (Directed by Louis Johnson). In each performance of "Miss Truth," at a side of the stage, and between his intermittent flute playing, Mr. McNeill created a large, and immortalizing, portrait of the dying "Sojourner Truth" who sat, with head bowed, at the center of the stage. The early performances of Dr. Van Scott's piece were presented during several weeks at the famed Apollo Theater, in Harlem. In addition, "Miss Truth" was presented as one of the initiating theater pieces for the newly-inaugurated National Theater, at The Kennedy Center, in Washington, D.C.
Mr. McNeill has performed solo flute improvisations with the following dancers, performing solo, and/or with their companies: Jeanette Leentvaar, Erica Thimey, "Barbara Roan, And The Blue Mountain Paper Parade", Sybil Huskey, Carol Fonda, and Margaret Beals.
Mr. McNeill composed the album "Washington Suite" (The Lloyd McNeill Quartet, 1970) for The Doris Jones/ Claire Haywood, (Directors) "Capital Ballet Company" (Washington, D.C.)
"Washington Suite," Lloyd McNeill (Flute), Eugene Rush, (piano), Eric Gravatt, (Drums), Marshall Hawkins, (Bass),
The Alvin Ailey ensemble dance piece, "Slaves," includes a musical composition by Mr. McNeill.
Discography:
• 1969: "Asha," (Lloyd McNeill (Flute), Gene Rush (Piano), Steve Novosel (bass), Eric Gravatt (Drums),
• 1969: "Tanner Suite" (duo with bassist Marshall Hawkins)
• 1970: "Washington Suite" Lloyd McNeill (Flute), Eugene Rush, (piano), Eric Gravatt, (Drums), Marshall Hawkins,
• 1976: "Treasures." (with Dom Salvador (piano), Cecil McBee (bass), Ray Armando (percussion), Brian Brake (drums), and Portinho (percussion).
• 1978: "Tori." (with Dom Salvador, Amaury Tristao, John LaBarbera (guitar), Buster Williams (bass), Victor Lewis (drums), Dom Um Romao (percussion), Nana Vasconcelos, (percussion). and Howard Johnson (Tuba).
• 1980: "Elegia," (with Susan Osborne (vocals,) Dom Salvador (piano), Cecil McBee, (Bass), Nana Vasconcelos (Percussion and voice), Portinho (Percussion), Claudio Celso, (accoustic guitar).
• 1998: "Ex.Tem.Por.E", with Richard Kimball, piano.
Mr. McNeill's albums are reissued by the London-based company, "Soul Jazz."
http://www.souljazzrecords.co.uk/releases/?id=19377
https://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=lloyd+McNeill
http://www.hipwax.com/music/patch/flute_lm.html
http://aavad.com/artistbibliog.cfm?id=176