Lou Gare Explained

Lou Gare
Background:	non_vocal_instrumentalist
Birth Name:	Leslie Arthur Gare
Birth Date:	16 June 1939
Origin:	Rugby, Warwickshire, England
Instrument:	Tenor saxophone
Genre:	Free jazz
Label:	Mainstream
Associated Acts:	Mike Westbrook, Eddie Prévost, AMM

Leslie Arthur "Lou" Gare^[1] (16 June 1939 – 6 October 2017) 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)

*Carr, Ian; Fairweather, Digby; Priestley, Brian, "Jazz: The Rough Guide" (1995), Penguin, .

Book: The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Colin Larkin. Guinness Publishing. 1992. First. 0-85112-939-0. 942.
Web site: Lou Gare has died . 9 October 2017 . Thewire.co.uk. 2017-10-17.
Book: Adams, Simon. The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, Vol. 2. 2002. Grove's Dictionaries Inc.. New York. 1-56159-284-6. 2nd. Barry Kernfeld. 13. Gare, Lou.
Web site: Lou Gare biography. AllMusic. 21 June 2015.