Byard Lancaster


Byard Lancaster was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist and flutist.
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Early life and education

He attended two colleges, one for music, before attending the Berklee College of Music. He moved to New York City and participated in jam sessions which included saxophonist Archie Shepp and drummer Elvin Jones.

Career

In 1965, he recorded Sunny Murray Quintet with the album's eponymous musician in New York, performed in the Parisian Actuel festival with him in 1969, and continued to work in the drummer's groups throughout his career. By the 1970s, Lancaster had played with musicians such as McCoy Tyner, Khan Jamal, and Sun Ra, as well as some outside of jazz, such as blues pianist Memphis Slim and blues guitarist Johnny Copeland.
Near the end of his life he performed regularly with cellist David Eyges and recorded as a leader and sideman for the record label Creative Improvised Music Projects. He died of pancreatic cancer on August 23, 2012.

Discography

As leader / co-leader

As sideman

With ArcanaArc of the Testimony
With Big YouthA Luta Continua
With Change of the Century OrchestraChange of the Century Orchestra
With Cool WatersCool Waters
With Johnny CopelandCopeland Special Jungle Swing Texas Party Honky Tonkin
With Bill DixonIntents and Purposes
With David EygesThe Arrow Crossroads
With fONKSQUIShUseless Education
With Doug HammondFolks
With Kip HanrahanCoup de tête
With Ronald Shannon JacksonEye on You Nasty
With Khan JamalInfinity Cubano Chant Black Awareness Impressions of Coltrane
With Dwight JamesInner Heat
With Bill LaswellJazzonia Moody's Mood for Love Sacred System - Nagual Site Operazone - The Redesign Method of Defiance - Inamorata
With Garrett ListAmerican Images Fire & Ice The New York Takes
With Geoff Leigh and Frank WuytsFrom Here to Drums
With Byron Morris and Gerald WiseUnity
With Sunny MurraySunny Murray An Even Break (Never Give a Sucker) Charred Earth Wildflowers: The New York Loft Jazz Sessions
With Robert MussoInnermedium
With Errol ParkerGraffiti
With Odean PopeThe Ponderer
With Vito RicciPostones
With Sounds of LiberationNew Horizons Unreleased (Columbia University 1973)
With Pierre Van Dormael, David Linx and James BaldwinA Lover's Question
With Marzette WattsMarzette Watts and Company
With Larry Young'