Results for "Bill Lacy"

Bill Lacy

The Gifts of Life

By Bill Lacy

Label: Dreambox Media
Released: 2006
Track listing: Am I Blue; In A Sentimental Mood; Contrapuntal; Lacy; Cherry; Our Love Was Meant To Be; Not For Me; Chicken Wings Jackson; The H&H; I Guess I'll Try Once More; Right Side Up; The Gifts of Life.

Bill Lacy: The Gifts of Life

by Michael P. Gladstone
May 4, 2006

Bill Lacy, a product of Trenton, New Jersey, sought to devote his life to jazz as a trumpeter and flugelhornist but had to shelve his aspirations. He served in the military, performing in the 427th Army Band (the last segregated band in the military), and then had to re-learn the jazz vocabulary of the bebop revolution ...