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Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre was born on March 24, 1936 in Clarksville, Arkansas but raised in Chicago, Illinois. He studied at the Chicago College of Music, and during the 1960s began playing with musicians such as Malachi Favors, Muhal Richard Abrams, and Roscoe Mitchell. Along with them he became a member of the ensemble Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in 1965.

He recorded his first solo album in 1969. During this time he recorded as a session musician for Delmark Records, playing with George Freeman, J.B. Hutto, and Little Milton, among others. The same year, Kalaparusha was convicted for drug offences, serving his sentence in Lexington, Kentucky with fellow inmate and friend musician/composer Tadd Dameron.

Moving to New York City in the 1970s, he played at Sam Rivers’s Rivbea Studios and taught at Karl Berger’s Creative Studio. He and Muhal Richard Abrams toured Europe several times. After his 1981 live album, McIntyre recorded very little, playing on the streets and in the subways of New York. His next major appearance on record was not until 1998, with Pheeroan akLaff and Michael Logan. The following year he played with many AACM ensemble members on the album Bright Moments. He continued releasing albums as a leader into the new century.

Free jazz tenor saxophonist Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre transitioned on November 9, 2013, in The Bronx, New York, at the age of 77.

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