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Steve Lacy Three: Live Lugano 1984

by John Eyles
February 8, 2025

Over two decades after the untimely death from liver cancer of soprano saxophonist par excellence Steve Lacy, it seems remarkable that Live Lugano 1984 has been released for the very first time by First Visit, over forty years after it was recorded live by Mario Conforti in Lugano, Switzerland, on September 24, 1984. According ...

Steve Lacy Trio

N.Y. Capers & Quirks

By Steve Lacy Trio

Label: Hat Hut Records
Released: 2000

Steve Lacy Three: N.Y. Capers and Quirks

By Steve Lacy Trio

Label: Hat Hut Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Quirks; Bud

Steve Lacy Three: Steve Lacy Three: N.Y. Capers and Quirks

by Mike Neely
July 1, 2000

Steve Lacy’s long recording career has been one of uncommon consistency of thoughtful, risk taking jazz. Steve Lacy Three: N.Y. Capers & Quirks is a trio recording adding to this great soprano saxophonist’s body of work an excellent often “free jazz” performance recorded live in 1979. Still in his early twenties, Lacy was recognized as a ...

Steve Lacy Three: N.Y. Capers & Quirks

by Robert Spencer
July 1, 2000

The Steve Lacy Trio with Jean-Jacques Avenel and John Betsch has been touring around the country for a few years now, purveying a stylish cool that contrasts interestingly with the trio on this disc: Lacy with bassist Ronnie Boykins and drummer Dennis Charles. This disc, recorded in 1979, captures Lacy during a freer, more fiery period. ...

Steve Lacy Three: N.Y. Capers & Quirks

by Glenn Astarita
April 1, 2000

Recorded in 1979, N.Y. Capers & Quirks finds soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy teaming with drummer Dennis Charles who had previously worked with Lacy during stints in Cecil Taylor’s group and the Gil Evans’ Orchestra. Sadly, Dennis Charles passed away in 1998 while the bassist on this date; Ronnie Boykins, died only four months after these live ...