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Prince Lasha

Prince Lasha has been played on NTS in shows including The Pentagon Faceslap, featured first on 16 June 2018. Songs played include Kwadwo Safari, Search For Tomorrow and Prelude To Bird.

A survivor of the 1960s who has not been heard from in some time, Prince Lasha was an inventive avant-garde flutist who occasionally played alto and clarinet. He played in Texas in an early '50s band that also included Ornette Coleman. In 1954, Lasha moved to California, where he was pretty much in obscurity until the 1960s. He recorded two Contemporary albums with Sonny Simmons (1962 and 1967), a 1966 session for British Columbia,…

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Kwadwo Safari
Prince Lasha
Enja Records, Inner City Records1981
Kwadwo Safari
Prince LashaEnja Records, Inner City Records1981
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Search For Tomorrow
Prince Lasha
Enja Records1982
Search For Tomorrow
Prince LashaEnja Records1982
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Prelude To Bird
Prince Lasha, Sonny Simmons, Clifford Jordan, Don Cherry
Zounds1963
Prelude To Bird
Prince Lasha, Sonny Simmons, Clifford Jordan, Don CherryZounds1963
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The Loved Ones
Prince Lasha, Sonny Simmons
Contemporary Records1968
The Loved Ones
Prince Lasha, Sonny SimmonsContemporary Records1968
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Tracking Train
Prince Lawsha
Birdseye1975
Tracking Train
Prince LawshaBirdseye1975
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For The Child
Prince Lawsha
Birdseye1975
For The Child
Prince LawshaBirdseye1975
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