KU-UMBA FRANK LACY

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Ku-Umba Frank Lacy was born in Houston, Texas, 1959 and grew in the ghetto. Frank is the sixth child of a family of twelve children. His father, a teacher, played guitar with Russell Jacquet, Eddie Cleanhead Vinson, Johnny Fontenett and Arnett Cobb. His mother was a gospel vocalist. At the age of 8, young Frank took up piano lessons and began to play the trumpet soon after. While in junior high school, he began to play the Euphonium and the Tuba. To play trombone he started at the age of 16. After musical studies at the famed Berklee College of Music in Boston and the Rutgers University in New York he toured with greats like Dizzy Gillespie, Abdullah Ibrahim, Henry Threadgill, Julius Hemphill, Oliver Lake, The Eurythmics, Carla Bley and Don Pullen. He was member of the first Bobby Watson Horizon Band and he spend a year and a half as read more...
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KU-UMBA FRANK LACY Settegast Strut album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Settegast Strut
Hard Bop 1999
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Tonal Weights & Blue Fire
Hard Bop 1999
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Frank Lacy & Mingus Big Band : Mingus Sings
Vocal Jazz 2015

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Hard Bop 2013

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