Oliver Lake

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Not to be confused with Lake Oliver, in Georgia and Alabama, or Lake Oliver (South Dakota).

Oliver Lake
Lake performing in 2007
Background information
Born	(1942-09-14) September 14, 1942 (age 75) Marianna, Arkansas, U.S.
Genres	Jazz
Occupation(s)	Musician
Instruments	Saxophone
Years active	1971–present
Labels	Freedom, Passin' Thru, Black Saint, Arista Novus, Gramavision, Intakt
Associated acts	World Saxophone Quartet
Website	www.oliverlake.net

Oliver Lake (born September 14, 1942) is an American jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer and poet. He is known mainly for alto saxophone but he also performs on soprano and flute.^[1]

During the 1960s Lake worked with the Black Artists Group in St. Louis. In 1977 he founded the World Saxophone Quartet with David Murray, Julius Hemphill, and Hamiet Bluiett. He has worked in the group Trio 3 with Reggie Workman and Andrew Cyrille. He is the father of drummer Gene Lake.

Lake has been a resident of Montclair, New Jersey.^[2]

Contents

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  1 Awards and honors
  


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  2 Discography
  
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    2.1 As leader
    
  
  
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    2.2 As sideman
    
  
  


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  3 References
  


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  4 External links
  

Awards and honors

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  Guggenheim Fellowship (1993)


• Melon Jazz Living Legacy Award (2006)

Discography

As leader

• 1971: Ntu: Point from Which Creation Begins (Freedom)


• 1974: Passin' Thru (Passin' Thru)


• 1975: Heavy Spirits (Freedom)


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  Oliver lake live in Rome 2006

  
  
  1976: Holding Together (Black Saint)


• 1976: Joseph Bowie/Oliver Lake (Sackville)


• 1978: Shine (Arista Novus)


• 1978: Life Dance of Is (Arista Novus)


• 1978: Buster Bee (Sackville)


• 1979: Zaki (Hat Art)


• 1980: Prophet (Black Saint)


• 1981: Jump Up (Gramavision)


• 1981: Clevont Fitzhubert (Black Saint)


• 1982: Plug It (Gramavision)


• 1984: Expandable Language (Black Saint)


• 1986: Gallery (Gramavision)


• 1986: Dancevision (Blue Heron)


• 1987: Impala (Gramavision)


• 1988: Otherside (Gramavision)


• 1991: Again and Again (Gramavision)


• 1992: Boston Duets (Music & Arts)


• 1992: Virtual Reality (Total Escapism) (Gazell)


• 1994: Edge-ing (Black Saint)


• 1996: Dedicated to Dolphy (Black Saint)


• 1996: Matador of 1st & 1st (Passin' Thru)


• 1996: Movements, Turns & Switches (Passin' Thru)


• 2000: Talkin' Stick (Passin' Thru)


• 2000: Kinda' Up (Passin' Thru)


• 2001: Have Yourself A Merry (Passin' Thru)


• 2003: Cloth (Passin' Thru)


• 2004: Dat Love (Passin' Thru)


• 2005: Oliver Lake Quartet Live (Passin' Thru)


• 2006: Lake/Tchicai/Osgood/Westergaard (Passin' Thru)


• 2008: Makin' It (Passin' Thru)


• 2010: Plan (Passin' Thru)


• 2011: For a Little Dancin' (Intakt)


• 2013: Wheels (Passin' Thru)


• 2013: All Decks (Intakt)


• 2015: To Roy (Intakt)

With Trio 3

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  Live in Willisau (Dizim, 1997)


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  Encounter (Passin' Thru, 2000)


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  Open Ideas (Palmetto, 2002)


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  Time Being (Intakt, 2006)


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  Live at the Sunset (Marge, 2008)


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  At This Time (Intakt, 2009) with Geri Allen


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  Berne Concert (Intakt, 2009) with Irene Schweizer


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  Celebrating Mary Lou Williams (Intakt, 2010) with Geri Allen


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  Refraction – Breakin' Glass (Intakt, 2013) with Jason Moran


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  Wiring (Intakt, 2014) with Vijay Iyer


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  Visiting Texture (Intakt, 2017)

With World Saxophone Quartet

Title		Year		Label
Point of No Return		1977		Moers
Steppin' with the World Saxophone Quartet		1979		Black Saint
W.S.Q.		1981		Black Saint
Revue		1982		Black Saint
Live in Zurich		1984		Black Saint
Live at Brooklyn Academy of Music		1986		Black Saint
Plays Duke Ellington		1986		Elektra / Nonesuch
Dances and Ballads		1987		Elektra / Nonesuch
Rhythm and Blues		1989		Elektra / Nonesuch
Metamorphosis		1991		Elektra / Nonesuch
Moving Right Along		1993		Black Saint
Breath of Life		1994		Elektra / Nonesuch
Four Now		1996		Justin Time
Takin' It 2 the Next Level		1996		Justin Time
Selim Sivad: a Tribute to Miles Davis		1998		Justin Time
Requiem for Julius		2000		Justin Time
25th Anniversary: The New Chapter		2001		Justin Time
Steppenwolf		2002		Justin Time
Experience		2004		Justin Time
Political Blues		2006		Justin Time

As sideman

With Anthony Braxton

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  New York, Fall 1974 (Arista, 1974)

With Alex Cline

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  For People in Sorrow (Cryptogramophone, 2013)

With Billy Hart

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  Enchance (Horizon, 1977)

With Michael Gregory Jackson

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  Karmonic Suite (Improvising Artists, 1978)

With Wadada Leo Smith

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  Song of Humanity (Kabell, 1977) also released on Kabell Years: 1971-1979 (Tzadik, 2004)

With James Blood Ulmer

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  Are You Glad to Be in America? (Artists House, 1980)

With Mulgrew Miller

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  Trio Transition with Special Guest Oliver Lake (DIW, 1988)

References

1. 
   ^ Allmusic biography
   


2. 
   ^ "The State of Jazz: Meet 40 More Jersey Greats", The Star-Ledger, September 28, 2003, backed up by the Internet Archive as of September 27, 2008. Accessed September 15, 2017. "Oliver Lake -- Lake, a longtime resident of Montclair, is a formidable alto saxophonist and composer of the jazz avant-garde."
   

External links

• Official website


• Portraits of Oliver Lake by Dominik Huber / dominikphoto.com

v t e Oliver Lake
Studio albums	Heavy Spirits (1975) Holding Together (1976) Prophet (1980) Clevont Fitzhubert (1981) Expandable Language (1984) Otherside (1988) Again and Again (1991) Virtual Reality (Total Escapism) (1992) Edge-ing (1994) Dedicated to Dolphy (1996) Talkin' Stick (2000)
Trio 3	Live in Willisau (1997) Encounter (2000) Open Ideas (2002) Time Being (2006) At This Time (2009) Refraction – Breakin' Glass (2013) Wiring (2014)
Live albums	Boston Duets (1992)
Related	World Saxophone Quartet Andrew Cyrille Reggie Workman

Authority control	WorldCat Identities BNF: cb13896278r (data) GND: 134658299 ISNI: 0000 0001 1768 0311 LCCN: nb2010019990 MusicBrainz: e58cdacf-c655-4848-a570-7d3f3fb11935 SNAC: w6sn1mc8 SUDOC: 156657988 VIAF: 66652267