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The Holy La

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1. Shuffle Boil 5:32 2. The Holy La 4:13 3. Inside My Head 4:48 4. Blue Jay 3:43 5. Flakes 5:50 6. The Wane 8:58 7. Clich

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Steve Lacy: The Holy La

Read "The Holy La" reviewed 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 ...

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Steve Lacy: The Holy La

Read "The Holy La" reviewed 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 ...


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