Oliver Lake

Edge-ing is a quartet album by saxophonist Oliver Lake, recorded in Milan on June 28 and 29, 1993 and released by Black Saint in 1994. Lake had been a founding member of the World Saxophone Quartet in 1977 with Hamiet Bluiett, Julius Hemphill and David Murray. Here he leads a band with pianist Charles Eubanks, bassist Reggie Workman and drummer Andrew Cyrille. Workman and Cyrille later worked with Lake as the cooperative Trio 3, which by 2017 had made eleven releases by the count of Troy Dostert in the Free Jazz Collective.

The album was recorded at Mu Rec Studio by Paolo Falascone and produced by Giovanni Bonandrini, with liner notes by Howard Mandel and a cover by Susan Rotolo. Discogs credits Lake on alto saxophone, and the CAM Jazz credits add soprano and tenor saxophone and flute. Four of the six pieces are Lake's: the title track, Scene One, Shiffs and Zaki. The other two come from outside the band, Peanut Butter by John Hicks and Verve Nerve by Curtis Clark. The tracks are long. Shiffs runs over eleven minutes, Peanut Butter over ten and both the opener and Verve Nerve past nine, and only Zaki stays under six. The album closes on Verve Nerve, the second of the two outside tunes.

This is the Black Saint CD 120104-2, first released in 1994.