Jazz Articles about Oliver Lake Steel Quartet

Oliver Lake Steel Quartet: Dat Love

by Rob Cline
June 16, 2004

Saxophonist Oliver Lake has found a perfect partner is steel pan player Lyndon Achee. Lake's tangy tone and freewheeling style is complemented beautifully by the rich sound of Achee's drum. Their collaboration creates a unique sound that renders Dat Love by the Oliver Lake Steel Quartet a captivating disc.

Dat Love features melodic frameworks for freestyle solos on which both Lake and Achee shine. “Venus," written by Ari Brown, offers a quality hook that provides the anchor for good solos, ...