ROVA:Arts ➔ Improv:21: Passin’ Thru: An Informance with Oliver Lake
Digital Moving Image
Event Type
Interview and MusicOrigin
ROVAIdentifier
IMP.2005.10.19Program Series
Improv:21Program Length
102 minDates
| broadcast| 2005-10-19 | created
Description
As part of the Improv:21 series sponsored by ROVA: Arts, Derk Richardson interviews jazz saxophonist, composer, painter, and poet, Oliver Lake. Lake provides a crash course is his personal history and the wide variety of groups that he has composed for, and/or played with. Lake has had an amazing career playing funk, jazz, and classical music, as well as writing and performing his own poetry and working with his Black Artist Group to produce pieces of musical theater. Here he plays excerpts of his works, be it with American Indian vocalist Mary Redhouse, the World Saxophone Quartet, the Flux String Quartet, the Oliver Lake Steel Quartet, the Oliver Lake Big Band, or any number of jazz groups. Lake also performs a number of sax solos live, as well as answers questions from the audience.Genres
JazzPoetry
Musical Selections
France Dance [excerpt] (ca. 1986) -- Owshet [excerpt] (ca. 1975) -- Rahsaan and stuff [excerpt] (2001) -- Input [excerpt] (ca. 1985) -- Cloth [excerpt] (1998) -- [unidentified saxophone solo] -- Land Line [a poem] -- Katrina ‘05 New Orleans [a poem] -- Song For Jay [excerpt] (c2004) -- My Mother is Breaking Glass [a poem] -- [unidentified saxophone solo] -- Naisiai [excerpt] -- Don’t Go Crazy [excerpt] (ca. 1982) -- Breath of Life [excerpt] (ca. 1982) -- Creole Talking [excerpt] -- [unidentified saxophone solo] -- Separation [a poem]Performers
Oliver Lake, saxophone (most selections)Victor Lewis, drums (Owshet)
Olu Dara, trumpet (Owshet)
Stafford James, bass (Owshet)
Donald Smith, piano (Owshet)
World Saxophone Quartet: (Rahsaan)
ProMusica Chamber Orchestra (Rahsaan)
Timothy Russell, conductor (Rahsaan)
Flux String Quartet (Input)
Oliver Lake Big Band (Cloth ; Creole)
Oliver Lake Steel Quartet (Song)
Oliver Lake, flute (Naisiai)
Mary Redhouse, voice (Naisiai)
Jump Up (Crazy ; Breath)
Subjects
JazzFree jazz
Improvisation (Music)
Saxophone music
Saxophone music (Jazz)
Saxophones (4) with orchestra
String quartets
Big band music
Steel drum music (Jazz)
Poetry