Arnie Lawrence
Arnie Lawrence (born July 10, 1938 in Brooklyn , New York City as Arnold Lawrence Finkelstein , † April 22, 2005 in Jerusalem ) was an American tenor saxophonist of modern jazz , music teacher and composer .
Live and act
Lawrence first learned the clarinet before switching to the saxophone as a teenager. From the age of twelve he played in hotels and clubs of the Catskills and at 17 he had his first appearance in New York's Birdland . In the following years he played with Mat Mathews (1955/56), Urbie Green , Dick Hyman , Frank Foster , Warren Chiasson / Jimmy Garrison , Doc Severinsen and Duke Pearson . In 1966 the first recordings were made with Chico Hamilton ( The Dealer ). He belonged to the Hamilton band for a few years; he was also a soloist on the Tonight Show from 1967 to 1972 . In 1968 he presented his first album under his own name. In the late 1960s he also worked for Johnny Richards , Joe Newman and Les DeMerle .
In the early 1970s, Lawrence played with Clark Terry , in 1974 with Blood, Sweat & Tears , Rod Levitt and Chuck Israel's National Jazz Ensemble . In 1978/79 he went on a world tour with Liza Minnelli ; he released other albums and toured with Louie Bellson and Elvin Jones in the early 1980s . He also composed a symphony ( Red, White and Blues ) which premiered with an orchestra in Williamsburg, Virginia ; The soloists were Lawrence, Dizzy Gillespie and Julius Hemphill . From the mid-1960s he also worked with his own formations such as the Children of All Ages and Treasure Island .
From the mid-1970s, Lawrence worked as a music teacher, initially as an artist in residence in Kentucky and Kansas . In 1986 he founded the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York City ; Students on this program have included a. Roy Hargrove , Brad Mehldau , Larry Goldings , John Popper , Peter Bernstein and Jay Rodriguez . In 1997 he moved to Israel where he founded the International Center for Creative Music , an institution aimed at Jewish and Arab students. He performed regularly in Israel with his band Blues Co-Elation and opened a nightclub called Arnie's Jazz Underground . He died in 2005 of lung and liver cancer .
The singer Marya Lawrence is his daughter. The saxophonist and flautist Erik Lawrence is his son.
Discography
- You're Gonna Hear from Me (Project 3, 1968)
- Look Toward a Dream (Project 3, 1969), with Larry Coryell
- Inside an Hourglass ( Embryo Records , 1970)
- Might Just Turn Out To Be Sages (1976), with Children Of All Ages
- Treasure Island (1979)
- Renewal ( Palo Alto Records , 1981) with Chico Hamilton, Billy Hart , Mike Richmond
Lexical entry
- Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lawrence, Arnie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Finkelstein, Arnold Lawrence (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz tenor saxophonist, music educator, and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 10, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brooklyn , New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 22, 2005 |
| Place of death | Jerusalem |