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Avignon and After - 1

By Steve Lacy
Label: Emanem
Released: 2012
Track listing: The Breath; Stations; Cloudy; Original New Duck; Josephine; Weal; Name; The Wool; Bound; The Rush; Holding; The Dumps; The Owl; Torments; Tracks; Dome; The New Moon.
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 ...
Kyle Brenders Quartet: Offset

by Troy Collins
A former student of visionary composer Anthony Braxton, Canadian multi-instrumentalist Kyle Brenders subtly expands upon the idiomatic language of his former Wesleyan professor on Offset, the second album by his self-titled Quartet, following 2010's Karst. In addition to numerous other projects, Brenders engages his interest in the oeuvre of iconic soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy as a ...
The Whammies: Play the Music of Steve Lacy

by Troy Collins
The rich legacy left by Steve Lacy has been the source of numerous tributes since his untimely passing in 2004. Among the most devoted interpreters are Ideal Bread--a New York-based quartet led by baritone saxophonist Josh Sinton, who worked with the iconic soprano saxophonist, and The Rent--a Canadian ensemble founded by trombonist Scott Thompson, who took ...
Mats Gustafsson: Share The Moment

by John Sharpe
Reedman Mats Gustafsson resides at the center of a hurricane of activity: relentlessly touring, curating festivals and begetting record labels. He boasts one of most distinctive sounds in free jazz, combining the extremes of scalp prickling howls with adventurous exploration of minimalist tone and timbre. Although he's come a long way since his early days in ...
Sam Newsome: The Art of the Soprano, Vol. 1

by Dan McClenaghan
Sam Newsome's The Art of the Soprano, Vol. 1 is a solo soprano saxophone outing, While not unprecedented--Steve Lacy and Evan Parker have done this before--it certainly is unusual. The straight horn all alone: no bass, no drums, no piano or guitar. Sounds lonely, and a little too sonically spare.But no one has gone ...
Take Five With Sam Newsome

by AAJ Staff
Meet Sam Newsome: One of the more important soprano saxophonists of his generation, Sam Newsome emerged onto the scene as a member of Terence Blanchard's quintet in the early 1990s, Newsome really hit his artistic stride when he began releasing a series of solo saxophone recordings expanding the sonic terrain of the soprano sax: ...