Lou Gare

Leslie Arthur "Lou" Gare (16 June 1939 – 6 October 2017) was a British free-jazz saxophonist born in Rugby, Warwickshire, 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.[1][2][3]

Lou Gare
Gare with Mike Westbrook's Uncommon Orchestra in "A Bigger Show" at the Barnfield Theatre, Exeter, UK
Background information
Birth name	Leslie Arthur Gare
Born	(1939-06-16)16 June 1939
Origin	Rugby, Warwickshire, UK
Died	6 October 2017(2017-10-06) (aged 78)
Genres	Free jazz
Instruments	Tenor saxophone
Labels	Mainstream
Associated acts	Mike Westbrook, Eddie Prévost, AMM

Discography

With AMM

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)

Other than with AMM

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)

References

"Lou Gare has died". The Wire Magazine. 9 October 2017. Retrieved 2017-10-17.
Adams, Simon (2002). "Gare, Lou". In Barry Kernfeld (ed.). The new Grove dictionary of jazz, vol. 2 (2nd ed.). New York: Grove's Dictionaries Inc. p. 13. ISBN 1-56159-284-6.
"Lou Gare biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 21 June 2015.

*Carr, Ian; Fairweather, Digby; Priestley, Brian, "Jazz: The Rough Guide" (1995), Penguin, ISBN 1-85828-137-7.

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