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Steve Lacy + 6: The Cry

Read "The Cry" reviewed by Robert Spencer

by Robert Spencer
May 1, 1999

Steve Lacy, the great master of the soprano saxophone and one of the unacknowledged greatest improvisers ever, continues a long series of art songs and settings of poetry in this new 2-disc set from Soul Note, the always challenging Italian label. Stretching back to the Sixties Lacy and vocalist Irene Aebi have recorded songs by lyricists ...

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Steve Lacy: Associates

by AAJ Staff
April 1, 1999

Steve Lacy is adaptable. We know that; over his career he has been a Dixielander, a Monk sideman and his foremost interpreter (several tribute albums, including the very first), and an avant-garde visionary. This album highlights his chameleon stature: ten duets, made over a decade (1982-1994), with ten different partners. Lacy changes his tone, changes his ...

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Steve Lacy: Associates

by AAJ Staff
April 1, 1999

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Steve Lacy: Steve Lacy saxophone special +

by Glenn Astarita
January 1, 1999

Steve Lacy’s “Saxophone Special +" portrays extremely artistic collaborations with the gods of the British Free Jazz movement. This CD comprises re-releases of original LP’s on EMANEM recorded in 1973 and 1974. Saxophone Special + without a doubt is a historical archive pertaining to the evolution of free and largely improvised music. While there are a ...

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Saxophone Special +

By Steve Lacy

Label: Emanem
Released: 1998

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Solo: Live At Unity Temple

By Steve Lacy

Label: hat ART
Released: 1998

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Sands

By Steve Lacy

Label: hat ART
Released: 1998

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Steve Lacy: Saxophone Special +

by Robert Spencer
December 1, 1998

This welcome reissue fills a gap in Steve Lacy's recorded career from the days when he was exploring free music. These tracks, from two live dates in 1973 and 1974, capture Lacy's music at an arch, shambolic, querulous, clangorous point from which he slowly, steadily retreated. For evidence just compare the flame-throwing versions of “Flakes" here ...

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