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    Lloyd Lambert
    Lloyd Lambert

    Jazz & rhythm & blues bassist, born Thibodeaux, Louisiana, 4 July 1928, died 31 October 1995.


    Bassist and bandleader "Luscious" Lloyd Lambert's band backed Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones in the studio and on the road in the 1950s; he also worked with Ray Charles and Little Richard, among many others. In later years, he was a fixture at Bourbon Street clubs, toured with Lillian Boutté and occasionally sat in at Preservation Hall. He was brother of pianist and singer Phamous Lambert, father of Theresa Andersson's bassist Lloyd Lambert, Jr., and the grandfather of bluesman Kipori Woods.

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