Jazz Articles

Gilles Laheurte: Dreams

by Florence Wetzel
October 13, 2005

Gilles Laheurte is one of the more unusual members of the New York City jazz scene. Almost 60, he spent most of his life working as an architect and planner, but was always devoted to music, his own as well as others. He calls himself an amateur jazz musician, but there's nothing amateurish about his release Dreams, which is full of beautifully evocative music. The recording is a tribute to the late Steve Lacy, who was a ...