Oliver Lake
Oliver Lake is an American jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer, poet, and visual artist. He is known mainly for alto saxophone but he also performs on soprano and flute. 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 has appeared on more than 80 albums as a bandleader, co-leader, and side musician. He is the father of drummer Gene Lake. Lake has been a resident of Montclair, New Jersey.Awards and honors
As leader
- 1971: Ntu: Point from Which Creation Begins
- 1974: Passin' Thru
- 1975: Heavy Spirits
- 1976: Holding Together
- 1976: Joseph Bowie/Oliver Lake
- 1978: Shine
- 1978: Life Dance of Is
- 1978: Buster Bee
- 1979: Zaki
- 1980: Prophet
- 1981: Jump Up
- 1981: Clevont Fitzhubert
- 1982: Plug It
- 1984: Expandable Language
- 1986: Gallery
- 1986: Dancevision
- 1987: Impala
- 1988: Otherside
- 1991: Again and Again
- 1990: Oliver Lake - Compilation
- 1992: Boston Duets
- 1992: Virtual Reality
- 1994: Edge-ing
- 1996: Dedicated to Dolphy
- 1996: Matador of 1st & 1st
- 1996: Movements, Turns & Switches
- 2000: Talkin' Stick
- 2000: Kinda' Up
- 2001: Have Yourself A Merry
- 2003: Cloth
- 2004: Dat Love
- 2005: Oliver Lake Quartet Live
- 2006: Lake/Tchicai/Osgood/Westergaard
- 2008: Makin' It
- 2010: Plan
- 2011: For a Little Dancin'
- 2013: Wheels
- 2013: All Decks
- 2013: Oliver Lake - The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note
- 2015: To Roy
- 2017: Right Up On
- 2017: Lakes at the Stone
With Trio 3
- 1997 Live in Willisau
- 2000 Encounter
- 2002 Open Ideas
- 2006 Time Being
- 2008 Live at the Sunset
- 2009 At This Time with Geri Allen
- 2009 Berne Concert with Irene Schweizer
- 2010 Celebrating Mary Lou Williams with Geri Allen
- 2013 Refraction – Breakin' Glass with Jason Moran
- 2014 Wiring with Vijay Iyer
- 2017 Visiting Texture
- 1977 Point of No Return
- 1979 Steppin' with the World Saxophone Quartet
- 1981 W.S.Q.
- 1982 Revue
- 1984 Live in Zurich
- 1986 Live at Brooklyn Academy of Music
- 1986 Plays Duke Ellington
- 1987 Dances and Ballads
- 1989 Rhythm and Blues
- 1991 Metamorphosis
- 1993 Moving Right Along
- 1994 Breath of Life
- 1996 Four Now
- 1998 '
- 2000 Requiem for Julius
- 2001 '
- 2002 Steppenwolf
- 2004 Experience
- 2006 Political Blues
As side musician
With Anthony Braxton
With Alex Cline
With Billy Hart
With Michael Gregory Jackson
With Mulgrew Miller
With Wadada Leo Smith
- 1977 Song of Humanity also released on '
With Malachi Thompson
- Freebop Now!
- Talking Horns with Hamiet Bluiett
With James Blood Ulmer'
Are You Glad to Be in America?''
