Lou Gare

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Lou Gare
Birth name Lou Gare
Born (1939-06-16) 16 June 1939
Origin Rugby, Warwickshire, England
Genres free jazz
Instruments tenor saxophone
Labels Mainstream Records
Associated acts Mike Westbrook, Eddie Prévost, AMM
Lou Gare (born 16 June 1939)[1] is an English free-jazz saxophonist born in Rugby, Warwickshire, perhaps best known for his works with the improvised music ensemble AMM and playing with musicians such as Eddie Prévost, Mike Westbrook, Cornelius Cardew, Keith Rowe and Sam Richards. As a member of Synchronicity (Richards, David Stanley, Sarah Frances) from the 1990s through to 2002 he played throughout the Southwest and toured the Czech Republic.

Discography

With AMM

  • At the Roundhouse (Anomalous)
  • AMM Group of London (Mainstream)
  • To Hear And Back Again (Matchless)
  • Cornelius Cardew Memorial Concert (Impetus)
  • The Crypt - 12 June 1968 (Matchless)
  • "The Aarhus Sequences", disc one of LAMINAL, a three CD retrospective AMM set (Matchless)

Other than with AMM

  • Saxophony HORN-BILL, reed solos compilation 2005 '(incl. John Butcher, Natahaniel Catchpole, Kai Fagasschinski, Evan Parker and Seymour Wright (Matchless)
  • No Strings Attached solo saxophone 2005 (Matchless)

References

  1. Adams, Simon (2002). "Gare, Lou". In Barry Kernfeld. The new Grove dictionary of jazz, vol. 2 (2nd ed.). New York: Grove's Dictionaries Inc. p. 13. ISBN 1-56159-284-6. 
  • *Carr, Ian; Fairweather, Digby; Priestley, Brian, "Jazz: The Rough Guide" (1995), Penguin, ISBN 1-85828-137-7.


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