Lester Bowie
USA
Born: 11 October 1941
Died: 08 November 1999
Genres: Jazz
Styles: Free Jazz, Progressive Jazz, Big Band/Swing, Jazz-Funk, Fusion, Soul Jazz/Groove, Jazz-Pop, Contemporary Jazz, Free Funk, Avant-Garde Jazz, Post-Bop, Hard Bop, Modal Music
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From the 1970s until his death in 1999, Lester Bowie was the preeminent trumpeter of the jazz avant-garde -- one of the few trumpet players of his generation to adopt the techniques of free jazz successfully and completely. Indeed, Bowie was the most successful in translating the expressive demands of the music -- so well suited to the tonally pliant saxophone -- to the more difficult-to-manipulate brass instrument. Like a saxophonist such as David Murray or Eric Dolphy, Bowie invested his sound with a variety of timbral effects; his work had a...
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- Art Ensemble Of Chicago (82)
- Fela Kuti (16)
- Geri Allen (4)
- James Carter (4)
- Milosc (1)
- Tenores di Bitti (0)
- Fontella Bass (0)
Similar artists
- Don Cherry (23)
- Roscoe Mitchell (11)
Influenced by
- Miles Davis (281)
- John Coltrane (110)
- Dizzy Gillespie (84)
- Louis Armstrong (74)
- Ornette Coleman (47)
- Freddie Hubbard (41)
- Lee Morgan (19)
- Kenny Dorham (15)
Followers
- William Parker (35)
- Avishai Cohen (29)
- Arve Henriksen (24)
- Peter Evans (13)
- Digable Planets (5)
- Hamiet Bluiett (0)
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