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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 is made possible in part through the generous sponsorship or support of ars nova workshop
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