| LC control no. | n 79090862 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Bowie, Lester |
| See also | Corporate body: Art Ensemble of Chicago |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1941-10-11 |
| Death date | 1999-11-08 |
| Place of birth | Frederick (Md.) |
| Place of death | New York (N.Y.) |
| Affiliation | Art Ensemble of Chicago Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians New York Hot Trumpet Repertory Company Hot Trumpets Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy |
| Profession or occupation | Trumpet players Jazz musicians Rhythm and blues musicians Singers |
| Found in | DeJohnette, J. New directions [SR] p1978 (a.e.) container (Lester Bowie, trumpet) New Grove dict. of jazz (Bowie, Lester; b. Oct. 11, 1941, Frederick, MD; trumpeter, brother of Joseph Bowie) New York Times, Nov. 11, 1999 (Lester Bowie, 58, jazz trumpeter; d. Nov. 8, 1999, Brooklyn, N.Y.) African American National Biography, accessed December 21, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Bowie, Lester; William Lester Bowie Jr.; trumpeter, jazz musician, rhythm and blues musician / singer; born 11 October 1941 in Frederick, Maryland, United States; worked regularly with St. Louis R&B musicians like Albert King and Ike Turner; studied music at Lincoln University in Missouri; joined Chicago's black avant-garde collective, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), becoming the organization's second president (1966); moved to Paris and made a group, became known as the Art Ensemble of Chicago (AEC) (1969); joined drummer Jack DeJohnette's quartet New Directions (1978); formed the New York Hot Trumpet Repertory Company (1982); renamed the Hot Trumpets Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy (1983); formed the New York Organ Ensemble (in the 1990's); explained his music as free jazz; died 08 November 1999 in New York, New York, United States) |
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