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Steve Lacy - Kent Carter - Andrea Centazzo: Lost in June
by AAJ Italy Staff
Riversamento in stereo da un'audiocassetta mono, questo CD risulta ovviamente piuttosto lontano dall'hi-fi (specie nel brano iniziale, quanto mai secco, povero di profondità), il che non significa certo che una performance di questo livello (live al Lirico di Milano il 4 giugno 1977) non meritasse di essere disseppellita dall'oblio. Vi confluiscono alcune delle più riconoscibili peculiarità del Lacy dell'epoca (tutti suoi i temi, in diversi casi ai vertici del suo songbook, con quegli impagabili titoli mono/bisillabici, assolutamente paradigmatici del personaggio ...
Continue ReadingSteve Lacy: Avignon and After - 1
by John Eyles
Emanem and Steve Lacy have been entwined since the label was born with the release of the saxophonist's LP Solo (1974). The first eight tracks of this CD hold the contents of that album, recorded at two August, 1972 concerts in Avignon--significantly, Lacy's very first solo concerts. Ever since, the label has championed the music of Lacy with several landmark releases. This CD and its companion, The Sun (2012), are prime examples. Together, this pair of albums replaces the 1995 ...
Continue ReadingSteve Lacy: School Days (1960/3)
by AAJ Italy Staff
Continua la storia editoriale di School Days, la raccolta monkiana di Steve Lacy e Roswell Rudd, incisa dal vivo a New York nel 1963 e pubblicata per la prima volta dalla Emanem nel 1975. Dopo due riedizioni a cura della Hat Hut, Martin Davidson della Emanem torna a quei notevoli testi sonori compilando la lista dei pezzi nell'effettivo ordine di esecuzione e aggiungendo in coda due brani che Steve Lacy incise come elemento del quintetto di Monk a Philadelphia nel ...
Continue ReadingSteve Lacy Five: Blinks...Zurich Live 1983
by Glenn Astarita
Blinks...Zurich Live 1983 is one of those ageless albums that accentuates the unparalleled synchronicity of iconic soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy's Five, captured live at a 1983 concert in Zurich, Switzerland. Packed with the leader's linear and concise theme constructions, the band reconfigures and rewinds many of the primary melodies amid moments of energized minimalism and lyrical eloquence. Over the course of time, it is perhaps more apparent these days that Lacy and saxophonist Steve Potts were near perfect foils--indeed, a ...
Continue ReadingSteve Lacy Five: Blinks...Zurich Live 1983
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Few musicians bestrode the world of the avant-garde like the proverbial Colossus, but Steve Lacy did. He played with the heart of a giant and a soul in which a flame was lit in the '50s, when he began his career playing Dixieland music. By the time he made his presence felt in the avant-garde playing the straight horn, he was in the middle of a forest fire of his own making. So hot was the music he played both ...
Continue ReadingSteve Lacy: School Days
by Raul d'Gama Rose
As the title suggests, School Days is both ironic--because the ingenuity of these musicians might have actually been the best schooled at the time of the recording--and iconic, as well. The reason? Steve Lacy and Roswell Rudd formed one of the great, seminal repertory ensembles of all time, playing the music of Thelonious Monk and Herbie Nichols. Moreover, this reissue includes two tracks of Monk's group that included Steve Lacy. While the recordings with Monk have been issued previously, on ...
Continue ReadingSteve Lacy: School Days
by John Eyles
Soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy's School Days has had a long and checkered release history. Recorded live in New York in March 1963, it was first issued on vinyl by Emanem in 1975 and later reissued on QED, an Emanem pseudonym. It first appeared on CD on Hat Art in 1994, and again on Hatology in 2003. Now, its CD release on Emanem is cause for celebration for several reasons. Most importantly, it puts this wonderful album back in circulation again, ...
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