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Live Concert with Oliver Lake Trio

Oliver Lake, Michael Gregory Jackson, Pheeroan akLaff




Saturday, June 11, 2005
Slought Foundation
Free Exchange Series

Oliver Lake (Photo by Raymond Ross, Rare Image Bank)

Please join us on Saturday, June 11, 2005 from 8-10pm at Slought Foundation for a live concert with Oliver Lake (tenor saxophone), Michael Gregory Jackson (guitar), and Pheeroan akLaff (drums).


Oliver Lake (b. 1942) was a founding member of St. Louis' Black Artist's Group (BAG) - a collective akin to Chicago's AACM - which also included Julius Hemphill and Charles "Bobo" Shaw. In 1976, with Hemphill, Hamiet Bluiett, and David Murray, he founded the World Saxophone Quartet, reaching a level of popularity perhaps unprecedented by a free jazz ensemble. A Guggenheim Fellow, he has composed commissioned works for the Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra and the Brooklyn Philharmonic as well as the Arditti and Flux String Quartets. He has arranged and performed on Bjork's "Debut", Lou Reed's "Set the Twilight Reeling" and A Tribe Called Quest's "Stressed Out". He continues to lead his own Steel Quartet, Big Band and cooperative ensembles such as Trio 3 with Reggie Workman and Andrew Cyrille.

This program was made possible in part through the generous sponsorship of ars nova workshop



Organized by Mark Christman
Co-presented with ars nova workshop


MLA Style: Oliver Lake, et al. "Live Concert with Oliver Lake Trio." Slought Foundation Online Content. [11 June 2005; Accessed 14 March 2010]. <http://slought.org/content/11297/>.






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