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Snips
By Steve Lacy
Label: Jazz Magnet Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: CD1: hooky; the new york duck; the 4 edges: outline (air), underline (fire), coastline (water), deadline (earth);
snips. CD2: pearl street; tao: (a) existence; (b) the way; (c) bone; (d) name; (e) the breath; (f) life on its way;
revolutionary suicide.
Steve Lacy: Hooky
by AAJ Staff
Four years after his first recorded solo saxophone concerts, Steve Lacy took the show on the road to North America. Two recently released documents allow today's listener a window into Lacy's approach in the spring of 1976: Snips [JazzMagnet], recorded in a New York loft, and Hooky [Emanem], from a Montreal church performance. The Montreal show ...
Steve Lacy: Snips
by AAJ Staff
Saxophonist Steve Lacy made his first American solo appearance in March, 1976. He chose to play at John Fischer's Environ, one of several “loft performing spaces" which prospered in New York at the time. Fortunately for listeners in the 21st century, Jim Eigo was there with a cassette recorder. The sound quality of the 2-disc set ...
Steve Lacy: Snips
by Derek Taylor
In the admittedly narrow annals of solo saxophone music Steve Lacy has managed to set standards of prolificacy unmatched by any of his illustrious peers. Even Evan Parker, who is regaled far and wide as the master of the idiom has failed to even come close to Lacy’s numbers when it comes to recordings. Here then ...
Steve Lacy Three: N.Y. Capers & Quirks
by Robert Spencer
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: Clinkers
by Robert Spencer
In an interview in Cadence magazine not too long ago, Steve Lacy spoke about the Sixties in highly unusual and unexpected terms, as a period when the baby was often thrown out with the bathwater as musicians threw out set forms and experimented. Lacy himself was, of course, one of the foremost experimenters. Although his sound ...
