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Art Lande (born 1947 in New York City) is a jazz pianist, drummer, composer
and educator.
He moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1969. He made the first record
of his own compositions in 1973 for ECM Records, in a duo with
saxophonist/flutist Jan Garbarek. The record name, Red Lanta, was the first
of several anagrams of his name that Lande used in his titles.
In 1976 he founded the jazz quartet Rubisa Patrol, with Mark Isham on
trumpet, Bill Douglass on bass, and Glenn Cronkhite (later replaced by Kurt
Wortmann) on drums. Rubisa Patrol played jazz standards, but also a lot of
original music.They performed in the Bay Area and toured extensively in
Europe by van. This group made two records for ECM: Rubisa *Patrol (1976),
Desert Marauders (1977) The band also released a third album titled The
Story Of Ba-Ku (1978) on the 1750 Arch Street label.
In the early 1980's Lande taught at
