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Steve Lacy: The Holy Ia
by Dan McClenaghan
The The Holy Ia opens – fittingly, for a Steve Lacy set – with a Thelonious Monk tune, "Shuffle Boil." In the sixties, soprano saxophonist Lacy teamed with trombonist Roswell Rudd in a quartet that performed Monk tunes exclusively; and the "straight horn" man is still one of the premier interpreters of the offbeat but supremely ...
Steve Lacy: Straight from the Horn
by Andrey Henkin
“I wanted to come back. You can't stay away forever. I'm from here, I'm from New York and it was time to come home." Soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy, whose career began inauspiciously in 1954 on an instrument which would lose its main progenitor in Sidney Bechet five years later, made this statement recently during ...
Steve Lacy: 10 Of Dukes + 6 Originals
by Jay Collins
Soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy has been following his own path for well over fifty years, initially as a traditional jazz musician (drawing upon his chief inspiration, Sidney Bechet), but ultimately becoming comfortable with a more modern approach due to stints with both Cecil Taylor and Thelonious Monk. His personal instrumental and compositional style continue to confirm ...
Steve Lacy: The Beat Suite
by Dan McClenaghan
The Beat Suite, alto saxophonist Steve Lacy's latest foray into what he calls lit-jazz, features the poetry of the Beats--jazz lovers all--set to Lacy's music. The Beats (Jack Kerouac, Alan Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, William Burroughs and more) are given a surprisingly accessible treatment here, considering Lacy's reputation for being “out there." Steve Lacy, under ...
Steve Lacy
by Todd S. Jenkins
Soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy is not only one of the few players since Sidney Bechet to specialize on the straight horn, he has become one of the most prolifically recorded musicians in jazz during a career that has spanned nearly fifty years. Though his early roots were in Dixieland, where he freely drew from Bechet's legacy, ...
Best Wishes: Live At The Labirinti Sonori Festival 2001
By Steve Lacy
Label: hat ART
Released: 2001
Snips: Live at Environ
By Steve Lacy
Label: Jazz Magnet Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Disc 1: Hooky / The New York Duck / The 4 Edges / Snips Disc 2: Pearl Street / Tao / Revolutionary Suicide
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