''Prophet'' is an album by American jazz saxophonist

Oliver Lake Oliver Lake (born September 14, 1942) is an American jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer, poet, and visual artist. He is known mainly for alto saxophone, but he also performs on soprano and flute. During the 1960s, Lake worked with the Black ...

, recorded in 1980 for the Italian

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label.Black Saint Records discography
accessed May 10, 2011 The album is a tribute to Eric Dolphy.

Reception

The

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review by Al Campbell called the album "a relatively straight-ahead date".Campbell, A
AllMusic Review
accessed May 10, 2011

Track listing

:''All compositions by Oliver Lake except as indicated'' # "Hat and Beard" ( Eric Dolphy) - 7:00 # "Something Sweet, Something Tender" (Dolphy) - 4:30 # "Poster" - 6:25 # "The Prophet" (Dolphy) - 7:05 # "Cotton IV" - 7:40 # "Firm and Ripe" - 6:45 :*Recorded at Sound Heights Studios in Brooklyn, New York on August 11 & 12, 1980

Personnel

- alto saxophone *

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trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

, flugelhorn *Donald Smith -

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

Jerome Harris Jerome Harris (born April 5, 1953) is an American jazz musician specializing in electric and acoustic bass guitar, electric guitar, voice, and occasionally lap steel and small percussion. He came to prominence in 1978 playing bass guitar and gui ...

- bass *

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- drums

References

{{Authority control Black Saint/Soul Note albums Oliver Lake albums 1980 albums