Lawrence Killian

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Lawrence Killian (born September 5, 1942 in Jersey City , New Jersey ) is an American jazz musician ( percussion ).

Live and act

Killian comes from a musical family: his uncle Al Killian was a trumpeter in the Duke Ellington Orchestra ; his father Rollie, who worked for the post office, also worked as a singer and guitarist for Sy Oliver . Lawrence was initially a trumpeter in the school band of the Glenfield School in New Jersey, in which he also played drums and signal trumpet . Then he was a member of the Blue and Gold Marching Band as a snare drum player before becoming the drummer for Lloyd Wheeler and Jimmy Anderson . He played in local bars until he eventually served the Coast Guard as an electrician.

Then Killian worked for the vibraphonist Johnny Lytle , through whom he came into contact with Roy Haynes and Freddie Hubbard . He became a percussionist in the Roy Haynes Hip Ensemble , which also included George Adams , Hannibal Marvin Peterson , Joe Bonner and Cecil McBee . This was followed by collaboration with Pharoah Sanders , on whose albums Thembi and Black Unity he participated. In the early 1970s he worked in Lonnie Liston Smith 's fusion band Cosmic Echoes , with whom he also toured Japan, as well as with Stan Getz , Miles Davis ( On the Corner 1972), Rahsaan Roland Kirk , Hilton Ruiz and Ahmad Jamal , before joining the disco band Village People for five years , which became popular with the hit YMCA (1978). In his later years, Killian taught at William Patterson College. In the 1990s he played in Pucho Brown's Latin Band. In the field of jazz, Killian took part in 89 recording sessions between 1969 and 2005. a. with Norman Connors , Ted Curson , Charles Earland , Etta Jones , Jimmy McGriff , Houston Person , Jimmy Ponder and Reggie Workman .

Discographic notes

  • Larry Coryell : Barefoot Boy (Flying Dutchman-One Way, 1971)
  • Pharoah Sanders: Live at the East (Impulse, 1971)
  • Roy Haynes: Senyah (Mainstream, 1972)
  • Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes: Cosmic Funk (Flying Dutchman, 1974)
  • Cecil McBee: Mutima ( Strata East , 1974)
  • Big John Patton / John Zorn : Blue Planet Man (Evidence, 1993)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Lord Jazz Discography
personal data
SURNAME Killian, Lawrence
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Jersey City , New Jersey