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Steve Lacy: Free For a Minute (1965/72)

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by AAJ Staff

Non erano mai stati ufficialmente ristampati su CD né Disposabilty né Sortie, due momenti a loro modo significativi nell'evoluzione del linguaggio del sassofonista Steve Lacy durante gli anni Sessanta. Li ripropone oggi la Emanem, in un doppio CD completato da alcuni interessanti inediti. Pubblicati originariamente in Italia (Lacy si era stabilito per un periodo a Roma durante l'irrequieto nomadismo europeo che seguiva le delusioni professionali newyorkesi), sono lavori che raccontano la rapida transizione dell'artista verso ...

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Steve Lacy Quintet: Last Tour

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by John Eyles

As its title says, this album dates from Steve Lacy's last tour, which ran from the summer of 2003 in NYC through to March 2004 in Boston, (where Lacy was living at the time, as he was teaching at the New England Conservatory of Music). The eight tracks on this album were recorded in Boston's ICA on March 12. Lacy was joined on the tour by musicians he knew well, his wife Irène Aebi on vocals, Jean-Jacques Avenel on bass, ...

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Steve Lacy: Cycles

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by AAJ Staff

Cycles è il risultato della meritoria azione filologica di Martin Davidson, che, recuperando quindici inediti, ricostruisce tre “cicli" di composizioni soliste di Steve Lacy della seconda metà degli anni Settanta. Il primo, composto da otto temi è “Shots," già registrato in LP per la Musica Records nel 1977 a Parigi, in duo con il percussionista giapponese Masa Kwate. La fonte principale della ricostruzione che apre questo doppio CD è un concerto al Teatro Alberico di Roma, pochi ...

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Album Review

Steve Lacy: Cycles (1976 – 1980)

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by John Eyles

The autumn 2014 releases from Emanem brought a double dose of good news for admirers of the late, great soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy. Firstly, the label's excellent 2011 reissue of the classic School Days album is available again, now that wrangles over some of its content have been amicably resolved. Secondly, and remarkably, this twenty-track double CD set, Cycles contains fifteen previously unissued tracks of solo Lacy in peak form, recorded between 1976 and 1980--a total of some 111 minutes ...

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I tesori della Emanem

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by AAJ Staff

Gli appassionati di jazz europeo conoscono bene il nome della Emanem, l'etichetta fondata nel 1974 da Martin Davidson per documentare la scena londinese legata alla free improvisation e che nel suo vasto catalogo custodisce molti capolavori anche di artisti americani. Bobby Bradford e John Carter Tandem Tra le più recenti ristampe--alcune delle quali sono giunte alla seconda edizione ampliata--ne segnaliamo alcune che ancora oggi ci raccontano una bellezza e un'urgenza davvero uniche, a ...

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Album Review

Steve Lacy: Avignon and After Volume 2

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by John Eyles

In 2012, Emanem released Avignon and After Volume 1 which consisted of re-released and previously unreleased tracks from the late great soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy's first solo concerts, at Avignon in 1972, plus previously unreleased tracks recorded live in Berlin in 1974. It was an excellent and valuable addition to the Lacy discography. Teasingly, its sleeve notes hinted that there was still enough unreleased Lacy material for another volume. Now, to confirm that, here is that second volume as promised. ...

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Maria Monti: Il bestiario

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Il vinile originale della Ri-Fi è stato per anni uno di quegli oggetti mitici per collezionisti della musica italiana di ricerca. Ora la Unseen Records lo ristampa per la prima volta in CD a edizione limitata, rimasterizzato da Taylor Deupree. È Il bestiario di Maria Monti, anno di grazia 1974, esempio fulgido di canzone/cabaret/sperimentale, di quel cantautorato artsy che univa politica e satira sociale, teatro e musica. I testi del disco, surreali, sono del discusso poeta Aldo Braibanti, gli arrangiamenti ...

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