Andrew Lamb

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Andrew Lamb (born August 26, 1958 in Clinton , North Carolina ) is an American jazz musician ( flute , tenor saxophone ), composer and band leader.

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Andrew Lamb grew up in Chicago and the Jamaica borough of Queens in New York . During his studies with AACM founding member Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre , he came into contact with the New York avant-garde movement in the 1970s, was a member of the art scene in Bedford-Stuyvesant , Brooklyn and finally received a scholarship from the Brooklyn Arts Council .

In 1994 he made recordings under his own name for Delmark ( Portrait in the Mist ), for which he had composed pieces; Contributing musicians were the vibraphonist Warren Smith , the bassist Wilber Morris and the drummer Andrei Strobert . Since then, Lamb has worked in a duet with Warren Smith and in a trio with Eugene Cooper and Andrei Strobert. In 2003 he recorded the album The Pilgrimage on CIMP in a trio with Tom Abbs and Andrei Strobert. In addition to his own band The Moving Form , he also appeared in 2004/05 with Henry Grimes ' trio formation Sublime Communication and played in Trio M41 with Alvin Fielder and pianist Chris Parker.

Since 1996 Andrew Lamb has performed regularly with his own ensembles at the New York Vision Festival ; he was also a member of Alan Silva's big band project The Sound Visions Orchestra , the Roy Campbell Ensemble and played in the Cecil Taylor Big Band. In 2005 Lamb performed with the Sublime Communication Trio in Berlin .

According to Steven Loewy, Lamb's music is rooted in the African-American traditions of church music, blues and jazz from Sonny Rollins , Coleman Hawkins to John Coltrane ; it is deeply spiritual and emotional.

Discographic notes

  • Portrait in the Mist (Delmark, 1994)
  • Andrew Lamb / Warren Smith: Duet (WISland, 1999)
  • Andrew Lamb / Warren Smith: Dance of the Prophet
  • The Pilgrimage (CIMP; 2003)
  • The Moving Form: Year of the Endless Moment (Engine, 2004)
  • The Dogon Duo (Engine, 2005)
  • New Orleans Suite (Engine, 2006)
  • Rhapsody in Black (No Business, 2012)
  • Andrew Lamb / Warren Smith / Arkadijus Gotesmanas : The Sea of ​​Modicum (No Business, 2017)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steven Loewy: Review of the album the Pilgrimage at Allmusic
personal data
SURNAME Lamb, Andrew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Clinton , North Carolina