Lou Gare

British jazz saxophonist (1939–2017)

Lou Gare
Gare with Mike Westbrook's Uncommon Orchestra in "A Bigger Show" at the Barnfield Theatre, Exeter, England Gare with Mike Westbrook's Uncommon Orchestra in "A Bigger Show" at the Barnfield Theatre, Exeter, England
Background information
Birth name	Leslie Arthur Gare
Born	(1939年06月16日)16 June 1939
Origin	Rugby, Warwickshire, England
Died	6 October 2017(2017年10月06日) (aged 78)
Genres	Free jazz
Instrument	Tenor saxophone
Labels	Mainstream

Musical artist

Leslie Arthur "Lou" Gare^[1] (16 June 1939 – 6 October 2017)^[2] was a British free-jazz saxophonist born in Rugby, Warwickshire, England, 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.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Discography

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)

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)

^ Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 942. ISBN 0-85112-939-0.
^ ^a ^b "Lou Gare has died". Thewire.co.uk. 9 October 2017. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
^ Adams, Simon (2002). "Gare, Lou". In Barry Kernfeld (ed.). The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, Vol. 2 (2nd ed.). New York: Grove's Dictionaries Inc. p. 13. ISBN 1-56159-284-6.
^ "Lou Gare biography". AllMusic . Retrieved 21 June 2015.