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 ...

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Steve Lacy: Snips

by Derek Taylor
September 1, 2000

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 ...

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Steve Lacy: Snips

by AAJ Staff
September 1, 2000

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 ...

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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. ...

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Steve Lacy: Clinkers

by Robert Spencer
July 1, 2000

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 ...

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Steve Lacy/Roswell Rudd: Monk's Dream

by C. Andrew Hovan
April 1, 2000

Although this recording would mark their first reunion since the early '60s and the times of their School Days quartet, soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy and Roswell Rudd have much in common, going back to their collective roots in Dixieland jazz. Both would take the cue of Cecil Taylor and other “new thing" artists in an attempt ...