Jazz Articles about Steve Lacy

Steve Lacy: THE CRY

by AAJ Staff
May 1, 1999

Although THE CRY furthers the fascination soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy has previously established with setting the work of women writers to music, it also breaks significant new ground in it’s bold, uncompromising feminist political slant. In that single respect, THE CRY could well prove to be as controversial as it is compelling.

For this recording, Lacy has selected the work of Taslima Nasrin, a former anaesthesiologist from Bangladesh. Over the past decade Nasrin has authored a number of essays, poems, ...

Steve Lacy: Associates

by AAJ Staff
April 1, 1999

Steve Lacy is adaptable. We know that; over his career he has been a Dixielander, a Monk sideman and his foremost interpreter (several tribute albums, including the very first), and an avant-garde visionary. This album highlights his chameleon stature: ten duets, made over a decade (1982-1994), with ten different partners. Lacy changes his tone, changes his approach, changes everything – depending on who he plays with and what they play. It’s a tour de force, and we get more surprises ...

Steve Lacy: Associates

by AAJ Staff
April 1, 1999

Steve Lacy is adaptable. We know that; over his career he has been a Dixielander, a Monk sideman and his foremost interpreter (several tribute albums, including the very first), and an avant-garde visionary. This album highlights his chameleon stature: ten duets, made over a decade (1982-1994), with ten different partners. Lacy changes his tone, changes his approach, changes everything – depending on who he plays with and what they play. It’s a tour de force, and we get more surprises ...

Steve Lacy: Steve Lacy saxophone special +

by Glenn Astarita
January 1, 1999

Steve Lacy’s “Saxophone Special +" portrays extremely artistic collaborations with the gods of the British Free Jazz movement. This CD comprises re-releases of original LP’s on EMANEM recorded in 1973 and 1974. Saxophone Special + without a doubt is a historical archive pertaining to the evolution of free and largely improvised music. While there are a few audio related flaws i.e. Derek Bailey’s stereo amplification was recorded in mono due to apparent tape recorder malfunctions, and a few barely noticeable ...

Steve Lacy: Saxophone Special +

by Robert Spencer
December 1, 1998

This welcome reissue fills a gap in Steve Lacy's recorded career from the days when he was exploring free music. These tracks, from two live dates in 1973 and 1974, capture Lacy's music at an arch, shambolic, querulous, clangorous point from which he slowly, steadily retreated. For evidence just compare the flame-throwing versions of “Flakes" here and on 1987's The Window, or, to throw the difference into even sharper relief, this take of “Revolutionary Suicide" with the one on 1995's ...