Oliver Lake

Original Italian edition on Black Saint of the 1982 album featuring Julius Hemphill, Oliver Lake and David Murray.

Original edition of the 1984 Italy-only album on Black Saint featuring Julius Hemphill, Oliver Lake and David Murray. With original innersleve.

To mark 50-years since a 22 year old Michael Gregory Jackson recorded his groundbreaking first release, "Clarity / Circle / Triangle / Square", recorded with the mind blowing group of his contemporaries Oliver Lake, David Murray and Leo Smith. This a…

"When I came to New York City in 1975, after my second period in Paris, I felt as if I was starting again. I didn’t have a band at that time. The Black Artists Group had broken up, or separated—well, it wasn’t much of a “break-up,” but we had come to…