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Steve Lacy: The Forest and the Zoo
by AAJ Italy Staff
The Forest and the Zoo è, tra i leggendari titoli pubblicati della ESP a cavallo del 1965, uno tra quelli maggiormente legati all’Italia, non solo per l’ovvio motivo che vi suonava il ventisettenne Enrico Rava, ma anche perché questa stessa formazione aveva avuto un prologo in un memorabile concerto al festival jazz di San Remo del 1966. Un episodio che spesso viene ricordato per la protesta turbolenta e a tratti violenta del pubblico. L’evidente richiamo “politico” del free del tempo ...
Continue ReadingSteve Lacy / Roswell Rudd Quartet: Early And Late
by Robert Iannapollo
Steve Lacy (soprano saxophone) and Roswell Rudd (trombone) had a long and illustrious musical history together dating back to the 1950s playing in Dixieland ensembles. By the early 1960s, they were committed modernists and formed a quartet devoted (mostly) to the music of Monk; School Days, a 1963 live date released twelve years later on hatOLOGY was the only recorded evidence of this band. In the mid 1970s, they reunited for a set of Lacy originals on Trickles (Black Saint, ...
Continue ReadingSteve Lacy - Roswell Rudd Quartet: Early and Late
by AAJ Italy Staff
Un piccolo scrigno con tesori preziosi, questa edizione Cuneiform, che raccoglie incisioni sparse della coppia Lacy-Rudd in diverse situazioni, ma soprattutto regala ben quattro tracce datate 1962, dunque precedenti l’incisione del noto School Days. Come tutto il repertorio di quell’album, tre di questi quattro pezzi sono elaborazioni da Thelonious Monk, che i due allora giovani jazzmen veneravano come un guru. L’ultimo invece è firmato da Cecil Taylor. Al contrabbasso figura Bob Cunningham al posto di Henry Grimes. “Eronel” (2 takes) ...
Continue ReadingSteve Lacy & Mal Waldron: At The Bimhuis 1982
by George Kanzler
Soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy (1934-2004) and pianist Mal Waldron (1925-2002) worked together in bands from 1958, but coalesced as a duo in 1981, continuing sporadically for two decades. Both expatriates in Europe, At the Bimhius 1982 captures them at the Amsterdam club in December of that year in just-now-released recordings. Although Lacy was associated with some of the leading members of the avant-garde and Waldron played with many hard-bop and modern giants, neither musician can be easily ...
Continue ReadingSteve Lacy - Roswell Rudd Quartet: Early and Late
by Troy Collins
One of the greatest front lines in modern jazz, soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy and trombonist Roswell Rudd were a singular force. From their earliest forays in the 1950s, Lacy and Rudd performed together regularly but recorded infrequently. Besides a handful of Black Saint/Soul Note albums from the early 1980s, there are few documents of their many performances together.
Other than Trickles (Black Saint, 1976) and Monk's Dream (Verve, 2000), their vibrant piano-less quartet work remains largely undocumented. The ...
Continue ReadingSteve Lacy Quintet: Esteem
by AAJ Italy Staff
A giugno sono tre anni che Steve Lacy ci ha lasciati. Un vuoto davvero incolmabile, non solo affettivamente, ma anche e soprattutto dal punto di vista del rigore e della personalità della visione musicale. Una visione cui lo stesso sopranista dedicava grande importanza e rispetto, ad esempio avendo registrato privatamente sin dagli anni Settanta moltissimi concerti, una grande parte dei quali fa parte del lascito di oltre trecento registrazioni contenute nel suo archivio. Nasce da qui, grazie alla sempre sensibile ...
Continue ReadingSteve Lacy: New Jazz Meeting Baden-Baden 2002
by Karl A.D. Evangelista
Steve Lacy wore as many hats as any musician of his generation: instrumentalist par excellence, free music innovator, master composer, solo saxophone trailblazer, poetry buff, Monkian doyen, salvager of the soprano, world traveler, inspirational offbeatnik. The evolution of Lacy's aesthetic catholicism is a wonder to trace, dissect, and absorb, and it's fascinating to hear, even now, what late pieces have been added to the puzzle.
New Jazz Meeting documents the saxophonist's contribution to a real-time “remixing of a piece by ...
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