Gene Lake

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Gene Lake (born January 12, 1966 in St. Louis ) is an American drummer .

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Lake comes from a musical family and was influenced early on by the Black Artists Group ; his father is the saxophonist Oliver Lake . He grew up in St. Louis and for a short time in Paris before moving to New York City at the age of 14 , where he attended the High School of Music and Arts . He then studied in Boston at Berklee College of Music , before returning to Brooklyn .

Lake played in the Human Arts Ensemble as a child . He was part of the Surface R&B group in the 1980s and then worked with Meshell Ndegeocello , Maxwell and D'Angelo . In the field of jazz he worked with Henry Threadgill and his Very Very Circus (1991–94), Greg Osby , Steve Coleman (1995–1998), Joe Zawinul , Marcus Miller , the World Saxophone Quartet , Jacques Schwarz-Bart and Dave Douglas . He also performed with the jazz / rap band Opus Akoben as well as with the Screaming Headless Torsos . Since 2000 he has released two albums under his own name. He is currently (2016) playing for Rudresh Mahanthappa in the new edition of Return of 'Saturn Returns' .

Lake can also be heard on the albums of Ronny Jordan , Axelle Red , Morley , Jason Miles , Eliane Elias , Scott Brown , DJ Logic , Chiara Civello , Elle Varner , Gloria Gaynor or Cristina Zavalloni . Tom Lord lists him in his discography with 54 recordings in the field of jazz between 1972 and 2014.

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  1. ↑ Jazz Listings for May 27-June 2 (2016) in New York Times
  2. ↑ The song Chasing Shadows from the Maximum Grooves album Coast to Coast was nominated in 2005 for the Grammy Award "Best Instrumental Performance - Pop".
  3. ↑ Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography
  4. ↑ Meeting (AllAboutJazz)
personal data
SURNAME Lake, Gene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American drummer
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Louis