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

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,…