Hello
everyone, it’s been a while....hope
you are having a great summer. Some
of my activities in the last couple
of months:
May 5th: I performed in Venezia,
Italy with Trio 3, Reggie Workman
& Andrew Cyrille. We went there
for one concert....all went well.
May 17th: Trio 3 performed at
Sista’s Place in Brooklyn
N.Y. every time we have performed at
Sista’s place we have had a great
time and enthusiastic vocal audiences.......there
was nuff encouragement from the lively
group of fans at the small club in Bedstuy,
Brooklyn.
May 22nd: I hada conversation
at the Montclair Public library,
sponsored by an organization called
Jazz House Kids. This event was
one of four with various musicians.
I had attended Christian Mc Brides
conversation a couple of weeks before
my talk. There were some interesting
questions and i got to talk about some
of my experiences.
May 23rd: Trio 3 performed early
evening concert at the Philadelphia
Art Museum to a full house. We had
o excellent concert.
June 2nd: Trio 3 performed at
the Discover Jazz Festival In
Burlington, Vermont. we had a workshop
and a concert, both were well attended
and concert was lively.
June 12th: I played the Vision
Festival in New York with my Organ
Quintet ....musicians in that group
are Jared Gold organ, Peck
Almond trumpet,Jahi Sundance
Lake DJ, Jonathan Blake drums.
This years festival was honoring “Kid”
Jordan, the great saxophonist from New
Orleans. He performed several nights.
On a history note “Kid”
Jordan is the one responsible for
inspiring the start of World Sax Quartet
32 years ago. He invited Hemphill,
Murray, Bluiett and myself to New
Orleans to perform with rhythm section.
The concert was so successful we dedicated
to keep the group together ........that
was 32 years ago!!
June 14th: I performed in a outdoor
concert in Princeton, New Jersey with
trio of Pheeroan Ak Laff drums Michael
Gregory guitar. This is a group
I had in the late seventies we reformed
a couple of years ago. The opening group
performed in beautiful sunny weather
....But when we started , wind, clouds,
lightnin’ our concert was called
due to weather, we did get perform for
25 minutes and then ran to our cars,
but not before gettin soaked!
June 18th: Wilmington ,Delaware
Trio 3 performed at the Clifford
Brown Festival. One of the requirements
for this festival , you must play a
Clifford Brown original or a tune dedicated
to him, we performed our version of
“I Remember Clifford “
composed by Benny Goldson.
June 27th 28th 29th: I attended
a family reunion on the west coast,
San Francisco. It was great to re-connect
with family. Hi Lea
July 5th: Duo performance with
my DJ son Jahi Sundance we performed
at performance space in lower Manhattan
called the “Stone” Our
concert was well received and attended.
Joe Bowie was also there in concert
performing the first set in duo with
percussionist Adam Rudolph. It was great
to see him, we go back to Black Artist
group days, he now lives in Amsterdam.
Ok
until next time “hey now, hey!
Oliver
Lake
www.passinthru.org
|www.triothree.com
www.myspace.com/oliverlakemusic
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Shows:
July
23rd till 26th Trio3 w/special guest
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y’all come
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