Steve Lake

Steve Lake (* 1951 in Chelmsford , Essex) is a British music journalist , author and music producer who is best known as a producer for his work for the Munich label ECM .

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Lake became aware of ECM productions around 1970 through Marion Brown's Afternoon of a Georgia Faun . After he wrote a review for the Melody Maker , he met Manfred Eicher in 1973 and from the late 1970s began to work primarily for the ECM sister label JAPO Records . His first productions were the albums Compositions of the Globe Unity Orchestra and Endgame by John Stevens with Trevor Watts , Howard Riley and Barry Guy in 1979 . In the 1980s he concentrated on working as a journalist and worked for Melody Maker and The Wire , before becoming a producer for ECM in the early 1990s. In the following years he supervised a. a. 40 ECM productions by the Italian Unabile Orchestra and by Paul Bley , Joe Maneri ( Three Men Walking ), Roscoe Mitchell , Evan Parker , Hal Russell , Wadada Leo Smith , John Surman ( The Brass Project ), Philipp Wachsmann and Robin Williamson . With Paul Griffiths he is editor of the book Horizons Touched: the Music of ECM . Lake also wrote liner notes for productions etc. a. by Daevid Allen , Raoul Björkenheim , Peter Brötzmann ( Machine Gun ), Jimmy Giuffre , Keith Tippett , Cecil Taylor , Derek Bailey , Mike Osborne / Stan Tracey and Colin Vallon .

Steve Lake, Paul Griffiths (Eds.): Horizons Touched: The Music Of ECM , Granta Books 2007; ISBN 978-1-86207-880-2

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SURNAME	Lake, Steve
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British journalist, jazz writer and music producer
DATE OF BIRTH	1951
PLACE OF BIRTH	Chelmsford , Essex