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Oliver Lake
Marianna, United States
Oliver Lake is credited on 266 releases across 106 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1972–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
266
Pressings credited
106
Albums
6
Decades active
133
In collections
Biography
Oliver Lake (born September 14, 1942) is an American jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer, poet, and visual artist. He is known mainly for alto saxophone, but he also performs on soprano and flute. 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. Lake worked in the group Trio 3 with Reggie Workman and Andrew Cyrille. Lake has appeared on more than 80 albums as a bandleader, co-leader, and side musician. He is the father of drummer Gene Lake. Lake has been a resident of Montclair, New Jersey.
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Credited work
266 releases · 106 albums · active 1972–2025
- Performance · 757
- Other credits · 90
- Engineering · 10
- Production · 7
Studios: RCA Studios, New York · Generation Sound Studios · RCA Studio A · OAO Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Debut
1993
Set The Twilight Reeling
1996
The Smithsonian Collection Of Classic Jazz
1973
Stressed Out
1996
The Omnichord Real Book
2023
Musical Prophet (The Expanded 1963 New York Studio Sessions)
2018
Free Lancing
1981
Surrounded
2006
Livebox
2003
Rhythm And Blues
1989
One Down
1982
Are You Glad To Be In America?
1980
Enchance
1977
New York, Fall 1974
1975
Spiritual Jazz (Esoteric, Modal And Deep Jazz From The Underground 1968-77)
2008
Debut Live
2004
Wildflowers 2 (The New York Loft Jazz Sessions)
1977
The Art Of The Saxophone
1987
Wildflowers 3 (The New York Loft Jazz Sessions)
1977
Frequent collaborators
- World Saxophone Quartet
- Various
- Björk
- Meshell Ndegeocello
- Material
- Oliver Lake Quintet
- Michael Gregory Jackson
- Trio 3
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