Oliver Lake
Oliver Eugene Lake (* 14. September 1942 in Marianna / Arkansas ) is an American jazz - saxophonist and composer .
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Lake grew up in New Orleans and initially played drums. At the age of eighteen he switched to the saxophone. In 1968 he graduated from Lincoln University with a bachelor's degree. From the late 1960s to the early 1970s he belonged to u. a. with Julius Hemphill and Charles Bobo Shaw , the Black Artists Group of St. Louis . Between 1972 and 1974 he lived in Paris . In 1975 he went to New York City , where he founded the World Saxophone Quartet in 1976 with Julius Hemphill, Hamiet Bluiett and David Murray . In the same year he participated in the Wildflowers Loft Sessions . He also worked with Michael Gregory Jackson and in 1981 founded Jump Up , a jazz- funk - reggae band with whom he toured the USA, Europe and Africa. In 1987 he worked on the album as guest musicians The Art of the Saxophone by Bennie Wallace with. In the 1990s he recorded an album with classic pianist Donal Fox and worked with pianist Borah Bergman . He has also performed with the singer Björk , the rock musician Lou Reed , the jazz singer Abbey Lincoln , the String Trio of New York and the rap group A Tribe Called Quest . In total he made about eighty albums.
Lake also composed, u. a. commissioned by the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra and the Arditti String Quartet , modern classical music. His works have been performed by the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra , the San Francisco Contemporary Players , the New York New Music Ensemble, and the Pulse Percussion Ensemble of New York . In 2014, Lake received the $ 275,000 Doris Duke Artist Award.
In the mid-1990s, Lake wrote the solo play Matador Of 1st & 1st , which he performed under Oz Scott in 1996 . He has also been a painter since his youth. The drummer Gene Lake is his son.
Lexical entry
- Martin Kunzler : Jazz Lexicon. Volume 1: A – L (= rororo-Sachbuch. Vol. 16512). 2nd Edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-16512-0 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lake, Oliver |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lake, Oliver Eugene (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz saxophonist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 14, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marianna , Arkansas, USA |