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Oliver Lake: Lake/Tchicai/Osgood/Westergaard

by Ivana Ng
It is often difficult to transcribe onto a CD the electricity of a live performance, but alto saxophonist Oliver Lake does it with ease on Lake/Tchicai/Osgood/Westergaard. In 2003, Lake completed a brief tour of Denmark with tenor saxophonist John Tchicai, drummer Kresten Osgood and bassist Jonas Westergaard. They immediately went into the studio afterwards, the product ...
Oliver Lake Quartet: Live

by Ivana Ng
If you listen to a record long enough, you may find yourself liking it more than you did on first listen. But listening to this live session from the Knitting Factory in May, 2001 repeatedly still does not help Native American wood flutist Mary Redhouse's trilling, whistling, flute playing, which strangely enough often sounds like her ...
Time Being
By Oliver Lake
Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: 01. A Chase (Lake) - 06:07; 02. Medea (Workman) - 05:23; 03. Tight Rope (Cyrille) - 06:17; 04. Equilateral (Lake/Workman/Cyrille) - 08:44; 05. Lope (Lake) - 04:41; 06. Time Was (Lake/Workman/Cyrille) - 08:43; 07. Playng For Keeps (Lake/Workman/Cyrille) - 06:38; 08. Given(The Whirlwind)(Cyrille) - 04:24; 09. Time Being (Lake/Workman/Cyrille) 05:09; 10. Special People (Cyrille) 04:53.
Oliver Lake: From Which Freedom Continues

by Kurt Gottschalk
It's not a term to toss around, but sometimes it fits. Oliver Lake, one could say with little worry of hyperbole, is a renaissance man. Best known as an original member of the longstanding World Saxophone Quartet, he is also an organizer with a sense for business--from founding the Black Artists Group (BAG) in St. Louis ...
Trio 3: Time Being

by AAJ Italy Staff
La quarta incisione del Trio 3 (Oliver Lake, Reggie Workman e Andrew Cyrille), nell’arco di quasi un decennio, evidenzia la grande attenzione posta dai tre formidabili musicisti al processo creativo e alla necessità di darne testimonianza in modo ponderato, andando in controtendenza rispetto ad un mercato sempre più affamato ed inflazionato da prodotti di routine. A ...
A Welcome Reunion with Oliver Lake, Gregory Jackson and Pheroan Ak Laff

by Erik R. Quick
Bernard Lyons, the affable English organizer of the continually outstanding concert series at Baltimore's An Die Musik, welcomed the audience and introduced the duet of saxophonist Oliver Lake and guitarist (Michael) Gregory Jackson. Although drummer Pheroan Ak Laff was present for the first set, he has a hygiene issue, went to his hotel to shower ...
Dat Love

By Oliver Lake
Label: Unknown label
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1. Stolen Moments 2. Double Space 3. Venus 4. Dat Love 5. 2G 6. Senor Blues 7. Song for Jay 8. Time
Meet Oliver Lake

by Craig Jolley
St. Louis musical rootsMy mother owned a restaurant with a juke box that had a lot of blues, rhythm and blues. That may have piqued my interest. When I was in high school I got interested in the drum and bugle corps. A lot of members of the corps were playing jazz. That really ...
Oliver Lake: Jazz is a Music of Exploration

by Nenad Georgievski
Not too many artists today can encompass so many different interests and musical styles within their work as is the case with Oliver Lake. He is a poet, painter, performance artist and also one of the better-known representatives of modern jazz. As a musician, he started his career in the 60's as part of the Black ...