found: DeJohnette, J. New directions [SR] p1978 (a.e.)container (Lester Bowie, trumpet)
found: New Grove dict. of jazz(Bowie, Lester; b. Oct. 11, 1941, Frederick, MD; trumpeter, brother of Joseph Bowie)
found: New York Times, Nov. 11, 1999(Lester Bowie, 58, jazz trumpeter; d. Nov. 8, 1999, Brooklyn, N.Y.)
found: African American National Biography, accessed December 21, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Bowie, Lester; William Lester Bowie Jr.; trumpeter, jazz musician, rhythm and blues musician / singer; born 11 October 1941 in Frederick, Maryland, United States; worked regularly with St. Louis R&B musicians like Albert King and Ike Turner; studied music at Lincoln University in Missouri; joined Chicago's black avant-garde collective, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), becoming the organization's second president (1966); moved to Paris and made a group, became known as the Art Ensemble of Chicago (AEC) (1969); joined drummer Jack DeJohnette's quartet New Directions (1978); formed the New York Hot Trumpet Repertory Company (1982); renamed the Hot Trumpets Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy (1983); formed the New York Organ Ensemble (in the 1990's); explained his music as free jazz; died 08 November 1999 in New York, New York, United States)
