Frank Lacy
Frank Ku- Umba Lacy ( born August 9, 1958 [ A 1 ] in Houston, Texas) is an American trombonist of modern jazz.
Life and work
Lacy comes from a musical family; his father was the guitarist and music educator Frank L. Lacy (1924-2011), the mother of gospel singer. He received since the age of eight piano and later trumpet lessons. In high school, followed, tuba, euphonium and trombone. From 1976 to 1979 he studied physics at Texas Southern University, but also played in rhythm and blues bands and jazz ensemble of the university. From 1979 to 1982 he attended the Berklee College of Music where he studied composition, in order to subsequently enroll at Rutgers University, where he studied musicology and African history to 1986. On the side he played with fellow students such as Branford Marsalis, Donald Harrison, Greg Osby or Wallace Roney, but also appeared with Joanne Brackeen, George Coleman, Woody Shaw, Slide Hampton, Dave Liebman and Lionel Hampton. In New York he worked with the quintet of Rufus Reid and entered 1985 with its own quartet on the Kool festival on.
From 1986 he was a member of Lester Bowie's " Brass Fantasy" and played in 1987, Dizzy Gillespie, Henry Threadgill and Illinois Jacquet, and then from 1988 to 1990 touring with Art Blakey and his Jazz Messengers as a trombonist and musical director. In 1990, he released his first album " Tonal Weights & Blue Fire" (on which his father was heard). From 1991, he continued performing with the Big Band of McCoy Tyner, played in David Murray Big Band Conducted by Lawrence " Butch" Morris and directed in European tours, was employed as a theater musician in Munich ( " Songs From Poker", 1992). Then he founded with Frank Lacy's 14 Piece Band- own big formations. In 1997, he played in Roy Hargrove's Latin American band Crisol and was involved in their awarded the Grammy album " Habana " as a soloist and composer. He also worked with Gunther Klatt and the Mingus Big Band, as well as with Carla Bley, Marty Ehrlich, Michael Formanek, Julius Hemphill, Oliver Lake, Steve Turré, Saskia Laroo and Salim Washington.
Awards and prizes
1984 Lacy won at Notre Dame Festival both as a trombonist and as a composer. From 1993, he was appointed by Downbeat as a talent that deserves further attention, won three times.
Disco Graphical Notes
- Tonal Weights and Blue Fire ( TUTU / Enja, with Fred Hopkins, Michael Carvin, Frank Lacy sen. )
- Settegast Strut ( TUTU / Enja, Kathy Williams, Doug Hammond and others)
- Songs from Poker ( TUTU / Enja, with Nomakosazana, Nicolas Simion, Larry Porter and others)