Andrew Lamb (musician)

Andrew Lamb ( born August 26, 1958 in Clinton, North Carolina) is an American jazz musician (flute, tenor saxophone), composer and bandleader.

Life and work

Andrew Lamb grew up in Chicago and the District of Jamaica by the New York district of Queens. Through his studies with the AACM founding member Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre he came in the 1970s with the New York avant-garde movement in contact, a member of the art scene in Bedford -Stuyvesant, Brooklyn and finally received a grant from the Brooklyn Arts Council.

1994 made ​​recordings under his own name for Delmark ( Portrait in the Mist ), for which he had composed pieces; contributing musicians were vibraphonist Warren Smith, bassist Wilber Morris and drummer Andrei Strobert. Since then, Lamb worked as a duet with Warren Smith and in a trio with Eugene Cooper and Andrei Strobert. In 2003, he took on CIMP on the album The Pilgrimage in a trio with Tom Abbs and Andrei Strobert. In addition to his own band, The Moving form he joined in 2004 /05 with Henry Grimes Trio lineup Sublime Communication and played in a trio with M41 Alvin Fielder and pianist Chris Parker.

Since 1996, Andrew Lamb came with his own ensembles regularly at New York's Vision Festival; He was also a member of Alan Silva's Big Band project The Sound Visions Orchestra, the Roy Campbell Ensemble and played in the Cecil Taylor Big Band. 2005 Lamb came to the Sublime Communication Trio in Berlin.

According to Steven Loewy Lambs Roots Music in the African American tradition of church music, blues and jazz of Sonny Rollins, Coleman Hawkins to John Coltrane; she was deeply spiritually and emotionally.

Disco Graphical Notes

  • Portrait in the Mist ( Delmark, 1994)
  • Andrew Lamb / Warren Smith: Duet ( WISland, 1999)
  • Andrew Lamb / Warren Smith: Dance of the Prophet
  • The Pilgrimage ( CIMP, 2003)
  • The Moving Form: Year of the Endless Moment ( Engine, 2004)
  • The Dogon Duo ( Engine, 2005)
  • New Orleans Suite ( Engine, 2006)
  • Rhapsody in Black ( No Business, 2012)

Swell

  • Richard Cook & Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings, 8th Edition, London, Penguin, 2006 ISBN 0-141-02327-9
Clinton (North Carolina) Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians Delmark Records Warren Smith (jazz musician) Roy Campbell, Jr. Richard Cook (journalist) Brian Morton (Scottish writer)
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