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Steve Lacy: Introspection (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music September 17, 09The history of the soprano saxophone's role in jazz has followed a path unlike that of any other instrument. Though h...
Steve Lacy: Flakes (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music December 23, 08During the ‘80s, Steve Lacy was probably best known for his work with his sextet, which featured co-saxophonist Steve...
Steve Lacy: No Baby (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music December 23, 08Like many an American jazz musician before (and after) him, Steve Lacy found Europe to be a more agreeable place to p...
Steve Lacy: Work (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music May 06, 09A mere three or four years before the recording of Soprano Sax, the teen-aged Steve Lacy had been a Bechet-enthralled...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: A SHORT HISTORY OF THE SOPRANO SAX
Soprano Sax and Piano Fab...
Steve Lacy and Mal Waldron: A Case Of Plus 4's (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music March 18, 09Steve Lacy's work with pianist Mal Waldron underscores his attachment to the jazz mainstream. For while a performan...
Steve Lacy: Evidence (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music February 19, 08Monk's repertoire has been a recurring center of interest in Steve Lacy's career, and he tackled it on many occasions...
Steve Lacy & Mal Waldron: House Party Starting (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music July 15, 08Compared to Herbie Nichols's evocative original version, this Lacy-Waldron rendition should be called "House Party En...
Steve Lacy and Mal Waldron: Snake-Out (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music March 19, 09Mal Waldron's improvised introduction to "Snake-Out" has a distinctly Middle-Eastern air, and Steve Lacy's soprano ha...
Gil Evans & Steve Lacy: Reincarnation of a Lovebird (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 16, 07Steve Lacy’s association with Gil Evans was three decades strong in 1987 when the two met for what would be Evans’ fi...
Steve Lacy: Stamps (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music December 23, 08According to John Swenson’s liner notes, Raps “documents Lacy’s first real acceptance here in the U.S. since his 1965...
Steve Lacy (featuring Elvin Jones): Four in One (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 02, 08After a Roy Haynes/Max Roach-influenced drum break to open "Four in One," Elvin Jones declares his singular presence ...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL ELVIN JONES
Elvin Jones, artwork by Michael Symonds While Kenny Clarke, Art Blakey, Roy Haynes...
Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy: Smada (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music June 02, 09One of a number of engaging Waldron/Lacy duet recordings, the 1986 Sempre Amore CD stands out for its heartfelt tribu...
Mengelberg, Lacy, Lewis, Gorter, Bennink: Change of Season (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music April 14, 09For someone who scuffled in virtual anonymity during his lifetime, the highly individualistic post-bop pianist/compos...
Mengelberg, Lacy, Lewis, Gorter, Bennink: Spinning Song (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music April 14, 09Herbie Nichols is one of the very few pre-Ornette, bop-derived composers whose tunes have attracted interpreters from...
Cecil Taylor: Song (Rating: 82/100) posted in Music October 22, 07Cecil Taylor’s 1956 debut for the Transition label was indeed a Jazz Advance, but didn’t yet mark the arrival of...
Gil Evans: Jambangle (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music December 21, 08Gil Evans kept a low profile in the music world from 1949-1955, even though he arranged for Billy Butterfield and var...
John Coltrane: My Favorite Things (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music October 30, 07John Coltrane, photo by Herb Snitzer In 1960, adding the soprano saxophone to his bag of tri...
Lacy, Steve (Steven Norman Lackritz) posted in Encyclopedia November 19, 08Soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy’s curiosity and ability took him from Dixieland through bebop into the avant-garde and...
Gil Evans: Straight, No Chaser (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music October 30, 07Monk's 12-bar blues paraphrasing the opening French horn motif from Richard Strauss’s 1894 tone poem Till Eulenspiege...
Waldron, Mal (Malcom Earl) posted in Encyclopedia May 18, 09Mal Waldron’s piano style – dense, roomy and roguish – made him one of the few who managed to fully absorb Thelonious...
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