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Inside Story

Label: Enja Records
Released: 2006

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Prince Lasha & Odean Pope Trio: The Mystery of Prince Lasha

Read "The Mystery of Prince Lasha" reviewed 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 ...

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The Mystery of 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.

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Prince Lasha's Inside-Outside Story

Read "Prince Lasha's Inside-Outside Story" reviewed 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 ...

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Prince Lasha & Odean Pope Trio: The Mystery of Prince Lasha

Read "The Mystery of Prince Lasha" reviewed 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 ...

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Prince Lasha

Read "Prince Lasha" reviewed 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: ...

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The Cry!

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2002
Track listing: Congo Call, Bojangles, Green and Gold, Ghost of the Past, Red's Mood, Juanita, Lost Generation, A.Y.

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Prince Lasha Quintet featuring Sonny Simmons: The Cry!

Read "The Cry!" reviewed by David Rickert


Give a quick listen to this CD and you might be tempted to write off Prince Lasha and Sonny Simmons as Ornette Coleman knockoffs, albeit good ones. The reality is that Lasha had been playing with Coleman since high school, swapping ideas and looking for fellow players in a world that wasn’t quite ready for what ...

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Inside Story

Label: NPG Records
Released: 1981

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Firebirds Live At Berkeley Jazz Festival Vol I

Label: NPG Records
Released: 1976


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