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This program features jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer, poet, and visual artist Oliver Lake in two concerts recorded at Roulette: a 2005 trio with Pheeroan Ak Laff, drums and Baikida Carroll, trumpet followed by an excerpt from a 1995 performance with an African percussion trio along with Anthony Peterson, guitar; Belden Bullock, bass; and Gregory Tardy, tenor sax. During the 1960s, Lake worked with the Black Artists Group in St. Louis. In 1977, he founded the World Saxophone Quartet with David Murray, Julius Hemphill, and Hamiet Bluiett. He has also worked with Reggie Workman, Andrew Cyrille, Bjork, Lou Reed, Amiri Baraka, Ntozake Shange, Mos Def, Arditti and Flux String Quartets, and much more, always blending dixieland, be-bop, soul, rhythm & blues, cool school, swing, avant-garde jazz, free jazz, rock, jazz rock…and beyond.