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Oliver Lake Interviewed in New Jazz St. Louis Podcast
Saxophonist Oliver Lake (pictured) is interviewed by Jazz St. Louis executive director Gene Dobbs Bradford in the latest JSL podcast, which went online today.Lake will bring his Organ Trio with special guest trumpeter Russell Gunn to St. Louis to perform at Jazz at the Bistro starting next Wednesday, December 16 through Saturday, December 19.
Oliver Lake, Reggie Workman, Andrew Cyrille & Irene Schweizer: Trio 3 in Amsterdam
by John Sharpe
Oliver Lake, Reggie Workman, Andrew Cyrille & Irene Schweizer Bimhuis Amsterdam October 19, 2009 Trio 3 comprises familiar faces on the European concert circuit. The group's earliest release was a concert appearance from the 1992 Swiss Willisau festival, and it has been making regular European tours ever since. Tonight ...
Trio 3 + Geri Allen: At This Time
by AAJ Italy Staff
Dopo ventitré anni di esistenza, il Trio3 del contraltista Oliver Lake, del contrabbassista Reggie Workman e del batterista Andrew Cyrille si arricchisce di un nuovo partecipante, la pianista Geri Allen. In realtà, il gruppo nasce non ufficialmente (la vera data d'inizio è il 1988) in occasione di una collaborazione discografica con la pianista Marilyn Crispell nel ...
Guelph Jazz Festival & Colloquium 2009
by Kurt Gottschalk
Guelph Jazz Festival & ColloquiumGuelph, OntarioSeptember 9-13, 2009The Guelph Jazz Festival and Colloquium devoted itself this year to trying to unpack an idea so common that it is at once crucial and cliché: whether the practice of music-making might have world-changing implications. Through presentations on (for example) gang intervention in South Africa through ...
Oliver Lake: Makin' It
by Hrayr Attarian
Changing a few elements of a well known musical format may be all that is needed to create a new and fresh sound. Makin' It, Oliver Lake has taken the old saxophone organ trio popularized in the 1950s by the likes of Ike Quebec and made it into a new vehicle for 21st ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Oliver Lake
All About Jazz is celebrating Oliver Lake's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Oliver LakeBorn in Marianna, Arkansas in 1942, Oliver moved to St. Louis at the age of two. He began drawing at the age of thirteen (and paints daily, using oil, acrylics, wood, canvas, and mixed ...
Alexander Hawkins Ensemble at the Vortex, London
by John Sharpe
Alexander Hawkins Ensemble The Vortex London, England August 10, 2009 If you can judge a person by the company he keeps, then pianist Alexander Hawkins must be someone to watch given his musical associations, both actual and virtual. The packed house at the Vortex certainly thought so, confounding Hawkins' ...
Geri Allen: Journey to the Light
by Greg Thomas
Geri Allen's playing and compositional efforts manifest a stylistic flexibility grounded in her absorption of the lessons of the masters of the jazz idiom, and her desire to innovate upon that legacy. As an apprentice during high school and college, and then as a journeywoman, Allen has kept company with musical legends.
Notes from the Net: A Tribute to Miles Davis and Gil Evans; New CDs from Terence Blanchard and John Patitucci; Plus News, Reviews, Interviews and More
Here's the latest compilation of assorted news briefs and links related to jazz, improvisation, and creative music in St. Louis, including news of musicians originally from the Gateway City, recent visitors, and coming attractions, plus assorted other items of interest:* A group including former Miles Davis drummer Jimmy Cobb, Gil Evans' son Miles Evans, ...
Trio 3: At This Time and Berne Concert
by Clifford Allen
30-odd years ago, the lineup of Trio 3--a veritable supergroup--might have seemed surprising. By the mid-'70s, drummer Andrew Cyrille had fed polyrhythmic invention to Cecil Taylor's unit structures and tuned drums for ten years, while bassist Reggie Workman was known for his work with Coltrane and a number of Blue Note artists. Reedman Oliver Lake, who ...
