From: Ron Silliman <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 10 November 1999 16:15
Subject: Lester Bowie
| The great Lester Bowie has died.
|
| NEW YORK (AP) -- Lester Bowie, a jazz trumpeter who was a founding member
of
| the long-running Art Ensemble of Chicago, died Monday from complications
| from liver cancer. He was 58.
|
| The group has played the United States and Europe for 30 years.
|
| Bowie, who also played the fluegelhorn, was known as a flamboyant
performer
| with a sense of humor and an appreciation for the theatrical side of
| performing.
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