• > Home
  • > Artists
  • > Lester Bowie
  • > Overview

    • Lester Bowie

    Lester Bowie

    Biography

    From the 1970s until his death in 1999, Lester Bowie was the preeminent trumpeter of the jazz avant-garde -- one of the few trumpet players of his generation to successfully and completely adopt the techniques of free jazz. Indeed, Bowie was the most successful in translating the expressive demands of the music -- so well-suited to the tonally pliant saxophone -- to the more ...more
    more Lester Bowie biography

    Sound Clips

  • Don't Cry for Me Argentina
  • Birth of the Blues
  • I Only Have Eyes for You
  • Rios Negroes
  • It's Howdy Doody Time
    • more Lester Bowie sound clips

    Albums

    more Lester Bowie albums

    Ringtones

  • Get Lester Bowie Ringtones

    • Similar Artists

    more Lester Bowie similar artists

    Web Links

  • LeisureSuit.net: A Review of the Lester Bowie Brass Fantasy's "Odyssey of Funk and Popular Music Vol. 1"
    • more Lester Bowie web links

    Credits

    more Lester Bowie credits


    What's Hot from ARTISTdirect