Arnie Lawrence, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Arnie Lawrence

American musician

Date of Birth: 10-Jul-1938

Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Date of Death: 22-Apr-2005

Profession: saxophonist, jazz musician, music pedagogue

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Arnie Lawrence

  • Arnold Lawrence Finkelstein, better known as Arnie Lawrence (July 10, 1938 in Brooklyn – April 22, 2005 in Jerusalem) was an American jazz saxophonist.Lawrence studied clarinet in his youth before switching to saxophone.
  • He played from age 12 in clubs in the Catskills, and by age 17 was performing at Birdland, at one point working a double bill with John Coltrane.
  • He played with Charles Mingus, Thad Jones, Maynard Ferguson, Clark Terry and Duke Pearson but did not make his first recordings until 1966, playing on Chico Hamilton's The Dealer.
  • He worked for several years with Hamilton, and became a soloist on The Tonight Show from 1967 to 1972.
  • His first records as a leader appeared in 1968. In the early 1970s Lawrence played with Willie Bobo, then joined Blood, Sweat & Tears in 1974.
  • He did a world tour with Liza Minnelli in 1978–79, and released a few more records under his own name before touring with Louie Bellson and Elvin Jones in the early 1980s.
  • He composed a symphony entitled Red, White and Blues, which was premiered by an orchestra in Williamsburg, Virginia; Lawrence, Dizzy Gillespie, and Julius Hemphill all soloed in the performance. Lawrence had taught from the middle of the 1970s, working as an artist in residence in Kentucky and Kansas.
  • In 1986, he stopped recording and touring and founded the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York City; among the program's students were Roy Hargrove, Brad Mehldau, Larry Goldings, John Popper, Peter Bernstein and Spike Wilner of Smalls Jazz Club.
  • He moved to Israel in 1997, where he founded the International Center for Creative Music, an education facility open to both Jewish and Arab students.
  • He played regularly in Israel and owned his own nightclub called Arnie's Jazz Underground.
  • He suffered from lung and liver cancer late in life, and died in Jerusalem in 2005.Problematic Guru, Interviews About the Art of Jazz, by Jeffrey M.
  • Green, https://www.amazon.com/Problematic-Guru-Interviews-about-Lawrence/dp/1517080606, provides insight into Arnie Lawrence's life and career, his understanding of music, his educational approach, and his prickly personality.

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