Phil Lasley

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Phelbert "Phil" Lasley III (* 27. March 1940 ) is an American jazz - saxophonist , the most (alto and tenor) in the music scene of Detroit worked.

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Lasley grew up in a musical family; like his mother, his sister Nettie played piano and sang, his two brothers Larry and Ben also played the piano; Larry gained his first experience on his father's alto saxophone . During his high school years he met the pianist Kenny Cox , with whom he formed a band. He also worked with his school friend Donald Walden . After graduating from high school, he worked as a professional musician with the Ralph Kirk Quartet, which performed in local Detroit clubs and bars, among others. a. with the pianist Billy Taylor . In New York he worked in the local jazz scene from 1958 a. a. with Hank Mobley , for whom he also composed ( Henry Earl Spirit ), in the New York free jazz scene with Cecil Taylor and Sunny Murray , he also belonged to a short-lived big band around Wendell Marshall , Al Gray , Julius Watkins , Thad Jones and Ben Webster at. His main occupation was as an accompanist for pop musicians. He worked u. a. from 1962 with Chuck Jackson's backing band under the direction of Bobby Scott . He was jailed for a drug offense in the 1960s and was serving a one-year prison sentence in Rikers Island . In 1967 he returned to Detroit and played in the backing band of Aretha Franklin , with whom he finally returned to New York.

In the following years he played a. a. with Sam Rivers , Tommy Turrentine , Walter Bishop junior and various Latin bands . He also taught at the Greenwich House of Music and ran the Omar’s jazz club in Greenwich Village with his wife Trudy . In 1978 he performed with his own trio at The Ladies' Fort club . In 1981 the couple returned to Detroit, where he got by with day jobs and performed part-time as a jazz musician. a. with the Teddy Harris Quartet in BoMac's Lounge . With his own band and with Roy Brooks , he performed at the Montreux-Detroit Jazz Festival (later the Detroit International Jazz Festival) in the mid-80s. Phil Lasley's playing was first influenced by alto saxophonists such as Tab Smith , Earl Bostic and Louis Jordan , and later by Jackie McLean .

In the field of jazz he was involved in five recording sessions between 1982 and 2000.

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  1. ↑ New York Magazine December 25, 1978
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed February 18, 2016)
personal data
SURNAME Lasley, Phil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lasley, Phelbert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1940