Lou Gare

Lou Gare ( born June 16, 1939 in Rugby, Warwickshire as Lesley Gare) is had a British free-jazz tenor saxophonist and violin builders, the major influence on the development of free - improvised music.

Life and work

Gare studied at the London Art School Fine Arts and worked as a jazz musician Mike Westbrook, where he approached the free play. With his fellow Eddie Prévost and Keith Rowe 1965, he founded the influential improvising ensemble AMM, where he remained until the year 1977. In particular, in the time when AMM was only a duo of him and Prévost ( 1972-1976 ), they performed regularly and relatively frequently. As a member of the London Musicians Co -op Gare played this time with Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, Barry Guy, Howard Riley and other musicians. In 1977 he moved with his family to Exeter. In the 1980s he played with drummer Fred Burwood at The Exeter free jazz duo. Gare but continued to play with Prévost (most recently in 2002 and 2005).

Disco Graphical Notes

• No Strings Attached ( Matchless, 2005, solo)

With AMM

• AMMMusic ( Matchless, 1966)
• The Crypt ( Matchless, 1968)
• To Hear and Back Again ( Matchless, 1973 to 1975 )

Swell

• Edwin Prévost: No Sound Is Innocent: AMM and the Practice of Self -Invention - Meta - Musical Narratives, Essays copula, 1995; ISBN 0-9525492-0-4
• Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather & Brian Priestley, " Jazz: The Rough Guide " (1995), Penguin, ISBN 1-85828-137-7