Lester Bowie was an American jazz trumpet player and composer.
11 Facts About Lester Bowie
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Lester Bowie was a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and co-founded the Art Ensemble of Chicago.
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Lester Bowie played with blues musicians such as Little Milton and Albert King, and rhythm and blues stars such as Solomon Burke, Joe Tex, and Rufus Thomas.
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Lester Bowie was a co-founder of Black Artists Group in St Louis.
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Lester Bowie remained a member of this group for the rest of his life, and was a member of Jack DeJohnette's New Directions quartet.
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Lester Bowie lived and worked in Jamaica and Nigeria, and played and recorded with Fela Kuti.
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Lester Bowie's onstage appearance, in a white lab coat, with his goatee waxed into two points, was an important part of the Art Ensemble's stage show.
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Lester Bowie appeared on the 1994 Red Hot Organization's compilation album, Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool.
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Lester Bowie took an adventurous and humorous approach to music and criticized Wynton Marsalis for his conservative approach to jazz tradition.
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Lester Bowie died of liver cancer in 1999 at his Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, New York house he shared with second wife Deborah for 20 years.
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In 2020, Lester Bowie was featured in a mural painted by Rafael Blanco in his hometown of Frederick, Maryland.