Monday, July 24, 2017
Steve Lacy and his Poly-Free Bag
One of my long-time favorites, Steve Lacy, is featured in the May, 1980 issue of Down Beat. This article appeared the shortly after NY Capers & Quirks was recorded (the trio with Charles and Boykins can be seen below). Although it is a favorite album of mine, I hadn't given it a listen for a while so it got a spin as I prepared this post (and a few more since). I've heard a fair bit of Lacy's vast discography, and I would place NY Capers & Quirks right up there. There's a different energy here than with the later trio recordings with Jean-Jacques Avenel on bass and John Betch or Oliver Johnson on drums. There is a fiery, surging, free-wheeling quality that I enjoy and isn't as present in the later trio works. I had the melody of "We Don't" rolling around my mind as I went for a stroll this morning. Highly recommended! Click on the image to view PDF of the full article. More vintage magazine articles are available here.
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Just found out that Emanem are reissuing Sortie, Disposability and some other material in August! So stoked... Sortie and Disposability were reissued by one of those euro public domain labels a few years ago but it had annoying audio glitches. Looks like this release will be cleaned up: http://www.emanemdisc.com/cd-lacy.html#5210
Great news - I'll add it to the list! Thanks for stopping by.
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