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Steve Lacy Five: The Way
by Clifford Allen
Steve Lacy once said that his gradual engagement with free improvisation, dropping the tunes" as he put it, was a mode in which he (or any musician) could get to that indescribable thing" on the other side. It is also likely that his intense study of the songbooks of Monk, Nichols and Ellington in the '50s and early '60s not only led to freedom, but also to the unique compositional style that came from free playing. In a sense, each ...
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