Claude Lawrence

Claude Lawrence (* 24. January 1944 in Chicago ) is an American alto saxophonist of the modern creative jazz and free improvisation music .

Lawrence studied saxophone with Frank Wess , Sonny Stitt and Ornette Coleman ; He worked in the 1970s and 1980s in the environment of the avant-garde drummer and band leader William Hooker and worked on his albums Lifeline and The Firmament / Fury (1989). In 1981 he performed with Sirone ( Sirone Live on Atavistic) and from 1984 played in a trio with bassist Wilber Morris and drummer Dennis Charles . With the trio he recorded his first album under his own name in 1997, Presenting Claude Williams for the CIMP label. It was written during a recording session of the Luther Thomas Quartet , in which Charles and Morris played.

Cook and Morton reminds Lawrence of Jimmy Lyons to play the saxophone .

literature

• Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
• Bielefeld catalog jazz. 2001.

Web links

• Album portrait and biographical note at CIMP
• New York Times concert notice , 1988