Home » Search Center » Results: Prince Lasha
Results for "Prince Lasha"
Marion Brown: Why Not?
by Clifford Allen
Marion Brown Why Not? ESP-Disk 2009 (1966) While the term “fire music" has held sway as a descriptor of the music of post-John Coltrane/Albert Ayler saxophonists from the 1960s onward, it's long been an incomplete summation of the work of most of these musicians. Alto saxophonist Marion Brown ...
Odean Pope: A Singular Voice in the Choir
by Elliott Simon
Grounded in the Baptist spirituals of his youth followed by a musical upbringing in Philadelphia with the likes of John Coltrane and organist Jimmy Smith as mentors, tenor saxophonist Odean Pope is the bridge between hard bop and free. His contributions to jazz are of major historical significance and through his over ...
Prince Lasha: The Passing of a Sax-Man
by Bill Leikam
December 12, 2008 saw the unexpected passing of William B. Lashaw better known in jazz circles as Prince Lasha. It sent a shudder of disbelief through the jazz community from the San Francisco Bay Area to New York. His memorial was held in Oakland California at the Mountain View Cemetery, December 20th. The large, flower filled ...
The Mystery of Prince Lasha
By Prince Lasha
Label: CIMP Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: 01. Coleman Captain Hornblower - 7:05;
02. Many, Many, Many, Many Miles Away - 7:25;
03. Selmer - 4:41;
04. Dinka Man Warrior - 8:25;
05. Eric Dolphy - 3:52;
06. John The Gospel - 6:32;
07. Prince Lasha - 10.27;
08. Book Of John - 4:54;
09. Divine Message - 9:43
Prince Lasha & Odean Pope Trio: The Mystery of Prince Lasha
by AAJ Italy Staff
Si erano un po' perse le tracce di Prince Lasha, il versatile polistrumentista texano che molti ricorderanno a fianco di Sonny Simmons o Eric Dolphy, oltre che in un memorabile disco Impulse! a nome di Elvin Jones e Jimmy Garrison, Illumination! Come ci spiegano diligentemente le note di copertina in questi anni il nostro è stato ...
The Mystery of Prince Lasha
By Prince Lasha
Label: CIMP Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Coleman Captain Hornblower; Many, Many, Many, Many Miles Away; Selmer; Dinka
Man
Warrior; Eric Dolphy; John the Gospel; Prince Lasha; Book of John; Divine Message.
Prince Lasha's Inside-Outside Story
by Clifford Allen
Alto saxophonist, flutist, composer and multi-instrumentalist Prince Lasha was born in 1929 near Fort Worth, Texas, and came up with Ornette Coleman and Charles Moffett, but his travels have taken him both far away from and nearer to that tree. During the 1960s, after moving to New York from California, Lasha associated regularly with Eric Dolphy ...
Prince Lasha & Odean Pope Trio: The Mystery of Prince Lasha
by Derek Taylor
Shooting for a faux sense of inscrutability, the tongue-in-cheek title of this new CIMP masks what is an unsurprisingly common occurrence in creative improvised music. Like others of his era who have dropped beneath the public radar since their halcyon days, Prince Lasha opted for a more financially remunerative path than the largess of professional musicianship ...
Prince Lasha
by Clifford Allen
Born September 10, 1929 in Fort Worth, Tex., flutist, clarinetist and altoist Prince Lasha came from a musical family. His grandfather was a clarinetist and his father Don Jones played tenor with Count Basie's band: “Him and Herschel Evans were good friends, like [Sonny] Simmons and I." Lasha relates his youthful encounter with his future axe: ...
