Daltrey
My Personal Hero – “Ku-Umba” Frank Lacy
Houston, Texas, born and ghetto raised, 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 is 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 at the apex of his career
as a sideman he spend a year and a half as musical director of Art
Blakey’s Jazz Messengers.
Besides the work with own groups, Frank still tours a lot with Lester
Bowie’s Brass Fantasy and the big bands of McCoy Tyner and David
Murray. A first CD under his name was published 1991 under the TUTU/ENJA
label: Tonal Weights and Blue Fire. A second one, Settegast Strut, has
been released on the same label.
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In Other News:
– Jack Nicholson is the Devil
– George Bush, Master of Diplomacy…and by “Master” I
mean “Borderline Retarded Irish Setter”
– 5.5 Pounds of Sugary Goodness
– SCREAM! Roger Daltrey SCREAM!
“I’ll tip my hat to
the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again
Don’t get fooled again
No, no!
Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!”