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Memories Of Steve Lacy
by Todd S. Jenkins
Steve Lacy's return to America in 2002, following three decades in France, was welcomed with as much enthusiasm as Dexter Gordon's triumphant repatriation in the '70s. A quirky and beloved individualist, Lacy, who died in Boston of liver cancer on June 4, 2004, took a mongrel horn and brought it into a permanent place of jazz ...
Steve Lacy: 1934-2004
by AAJ Staff
It was some time in 1956 playing with my college Dixieland band when our regular reed man could not make a gig. We were intrigued by what we heard about a rising new star on the New York jazz scene. Soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy was gaining a reputation for playing the old music in a more ...
A Fireside Chat With Steve Lacy
by AAJ Staff
As one of the most recorded artists of our time, conventional wisdom would suggest that Steve Lacy material shouldn't age well. Conventional wisdom be damned because Lacy's records have stood the test of time and moreover, Lacy himself has actually gotten better as the years have passed. For example, his latest recordings on hatOLOGY with his ...
Steve Lacy: The Holy La
by Ken Waxman
This fine trio CD takes its name from something held sacred by musicians: “la," the pitch to which all instruments are almost always tuned. During the course of these nine tracks, soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy and his associates also prove that they can do just anything they want with any variations of “la" and the other ...
Steve Lacy: The Holy La
by Jeff Stockton
From the first note of The Holy La, you know you’re in the hands of a master. The tone is authoritative, and lower than the high hard sound of the soprano sax we associate with the Coltrane of “My Favorite Things.” The tune is from Monk, “Shuffle Boil,” and the trio, together in one combination or ...
The Holy Ia
By Steve Lacy
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Shuffle Boil, The Holy la, Inside My Head, Blue Jay, Flakes, The Wane, Cliches, Retreat, The Door
The Beat Suite
By Steve Lacy
Label: Universal Music Group
Released: 2003
Track listing: Wave Lover, Song, Naked Lunch, Private Sadness, A Ring of Bone, The Mad Yak, Jack's Blues,
Agenda, In the Pocket, Mother Goose
10 Of Dukes + 6 Originals
By Steve Lacy
Label: Senators Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. In A Mellow Tone, 2. The Mooche, 3. Morning Glory, 4. Prelude To A Kiss, 5. Portrait Of Bert
Williams, 6. Azure, 7. Cottontail, 8. In A Sentimental Mood, 9. KoKo, 10. To The Bitter, 11. Art, 12.
Gospel, 13. On A Midnight Kick, 14. Wave Lover, 15. The Breath, 16. Traces.
Live At Dreher Paris 1981
By Mal Waldron
Label: Hat Hut Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Let
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