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This article is about the jazz musician. For the CEO of Meredith, see Steve Lacy (businessman)
Steve Lacy (businessman)

Stephen M. Lacy is an American magazine and media company executive. He is President and CEO of Meredith Corporation, a publicly-traded publishing, broadcasting and interactive media firm based in Des Moines, Iowa....
.

Steve Lacy (July 23, 1934 – June 4, 2004), born Steven Norman Lackritz in New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
, was a jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 soprano saxophonist
Saxophone

The saxophone is a conical-Bore transposing instrument musical instrument considered a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and are played with a Single-reed instrument mouthpiece similar to the clarinet....
.

began his career at sixteen playing Dixieland music with much older musicians such as Henry "Red" Allen
Red Allen

Henry "Red" Allen was a jazz trumpeter whose style has been claimed to be the first to fully incorporate the innovations of Louis Armstrong....
, Pee Wee Russell
Pee Wee Russell

Charles Ellsworth Russell, much better known by his nickname Pee Wee Russell, was a jazz musician. Early in his career he played clarinet and saxophones, but eventually focused solely on clarinet....
, George "Pops" Foster
Pops Foster

George Murphy "Pops" Foster was a jazz musician best known for his vigorous playing of the string bass. He also played the tuba and trumpet professionally....
 and Zutty Singleton
Zutty Singleton

Arthur James "Zutty" Singleton was an influential United States early jazz drummer.Singleton was born in Bunkie, Louisiana and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana....
 and then with Kansas City
Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson County, Missouri, Clay County, Missouri, Cass County, Missouri, and Platte County, Missouri counties....
 jazz players like Buck Clayton
Buck Clayton

Buck Clayton was an United States of America jazz trumpet player, fondly remembered for being a leading member of Count Basie 'Old Testament' orchestra and leader of mainstream orientated jam session recordings in the 1950s....
, Dicky Wells
Dicky Wells

William Wells, , more famous under the name of Dicky Wells , was an American jazz trombonist.Dickie Wells was born in Centerville, Tennessee....
, and Jimmy Rushing
Jimmy Rushing

James Andrew Rushing was an United States blues shouter and swing music jazz singer from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, best known as the featured vocalist of Count Basie's Orchestra from 1935 to 1948....
. He then became involved with the avant-garde
Avant-garde

Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English, to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
, performing on the debut album of Cecil Taylor
Cecil Taylor

Cecil Percival Taylor is an United States pianist and poet. Classically trained, Taylor is generally acknowledged as one of the inventors of free jazz....
 and appearing with Taylor's groundbreaking quartet at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival
Newport Jazz Festival

The Newport Jazz Festival is a music festival held every summer in Newport, Rhode Island, USA. It was established in 1954 by the jazz impresario George Wein, prompted by socialite Elaine Lorillard, whose wealthy husband helped finance the festival's startup....
; he also made a notable appearance on an early Gil Evans
Gil Evans

Gil Evans was a jazz pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader, active in the United States. He played a seminal role in the development of cool jazz, modal jazz, free jazz and jazz-rock, and collaborated extensively with Miles Davis....
 album.






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This article is about the jazz musician. For the CEO of Meredith, see Steve Lacy (businessman)
Steve Lacy (businessman)

Stephen M. Lacy is an American magazine and media company executive. He is President and CEO of Meredith Corporation, a publicly-traded publishing, broadcasting and interactive media firm based in Des Moines, Iowa....
.

Steve Lacy (July 23, 1934 – June 4, 2004), born Steven Norman Lackritz in New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
, was a jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 soprano saxophonist
Saxophone

The saxophone is a conical-Bore transposing instrument musical instrument considered a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and are played with a Single-reed instrument mouthpiece similar to the clarinet....
.

Biography

Lacy began his career at sixteen playing Dixieland music with much older musicians such as Henry "Red" Allen
Red Allen

Henry "Red" Allen was a jazz trumpeter whose style has been claimed to be the first to fully incorporate the innovations of Louis Armstrong....
, Pee Wee Russell
Pee Wee Russell

Charles Ellsworth Russell, much better known by his nickname Pee Wee Russell, was a jazz musician. Early in his career he played clarinet and saxophones, but eventually focused solely on clarinet....
, George "Pops" Foster
Pops Foster

George Murphy "Pops" Foster was a jazz musician best known for his vigorous playing of the string bass. He also played the tuba and trumpet professionally....
 and Zutty Singleton
Zutty Singleton

Arthur James "Zutty" Singleton was an influential United States early jazz drummer.Singleton was born in Bunkie, Louisiana and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana....
 and then with Kansas City
Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson County, Missouri, Clay County, Missouri, Cass County, Missouri, and Platte County, Missouri counties....
 jazz players like Buck Clayton
Buck Clayton

Buck Clayton was an United States of America jazz trumpet player, fondly remembered for being a leading member of Count Basie 'Old Testament' orchestra and leader of mainstream orientated jam session recordings in the 1950s....
, Dicky Wells
Dicky Wells

William Wells, , more famous under the name of Dicky Wells , was an American jazz trombonist.Dickie Wells was born in Centerville, Tennessee....
, and Jimmy Rushing
Jimmy Rushing

James Andrew Rushing was an United States blues shouter and swing music jazz singer from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, best known as the featured vocalist of Count Basie's Orchestra from 1935 to 1948....
. He then became involved with the avant-garde
Avant-garde

Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English, to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
, performing on the debut album of Cecil Taylor
Cecil Taylor

Cecil Percival Taylor is an United States pianist and poet. Classically trained, Taylor is generally acknowledged as one of the inventors of free jazz....
 and appearing with Taylor's groundbreaking quartet at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival
Newport Jazz Festival

The Newport Jazz Festival is a music festival held every summer in Newport, Rhode Island, USA. It was established in 1954 by the jazz impresario George Wein, prompted by socialite Elaine Lorillard, whose wealthy husband helped finance the festival's startup....
; he also made a notable appearance on an early Gil Evans
Gil Evans

Gil Evans was a jazz pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader, active in the United States. He played a seminal role in the development of cool jazz, modal jazz, free jazz and jazz-rock, and collaborated extensively with Miles Davis....
 album. His most enduring relationship, however, was with the music of Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Sphere Monk was an American jazz pianist and composer.Widely considered one of the most important musicians in jazz -- he is one of only three jazz musicians to be featured on the cover of Time magazine -- Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "Epi...
: he recorded the first album to feature only Monk compositions (Reflections
Reflections (Steve Lacy album)

Reflections is the second album by Steve Lacy which was released on the Prestige Records label in 1959. It features performances of tunes written by Thelonious Monk by Lacy, Mal Waldron, Buell Neidlinger and Elvin Jones....
, Prestige, 1958) and briefly played in Monk's band in 1960 and later on Monk's Big Band/Quartet album (Columbia, 1963).

Monk tunes became a permanent part of his repertoire, making an appearance in virtually every concert appearance and on albums, and Lacy often collaborated with trombonist Roswell Rudd
Roswell Rudd

Roswell Rudd is an United States jazz trombone and composer.Although skilled in all styles of jazz and other genres of music, he is known primarily for his work in free jazz and avant-garde jazz....
 in presenting interpretations of Monk's compositions.

Beyond Monk, he performed the work of jazz composers such as Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus was an United States jazz bassist, composer, bandleader, and occasional pianist. He was also known for his activism against racism....
, Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader.Duke Ellington was recognized during his life as one of the most influential Jazz royalty, if not in all American music and he is of only four jazz musicians ever to have been featured on the cover of Time magazine ....
 and Herbie Nichols
Herbie Nichols

Herbie Nichols , was an American jazz pianist and composer. Obscure during his lifetime, he is now highly regarded by many musicians and critics....
; unlike many jazz musicians he rarely played standard popular or show tunes. Lacy also became a highly distinctive composer with a signature simplicity of style: a Lacy composition is often built out of little more than a single questioning phrase, repeated several times. In the 1960s he continued to work with other players involved in the American free-jazz avant-garde and, in the 1970s, the European free improvisation scene, and free improvisation remained an important element in his work thereafter.

Lacy's first visit to Europe came in 1965, with a visit to Copenhagen in the company of Kenny Drew
Kenny Drew

Kenneth Sidney Drew was an United States jazz pianist.Born in New York City, New York, he first recorded with Howard McGhee in 1949, and over the next two years recorded with Buddy DeFranco, Coleman Hawkins, Milt Jackson, Charlie Parker, Buddy Rich, and Dinah Washington....
; he went to Italy and formed a quartet with Italian trumpeter Enrico Rava
Enrico Rava

Enrico Rava , is a prolific jazz trumpeter and arguably the most well known Italian jazz musician. He originally played trombone, changing to the trumpet after hearing Miles Davis....
 and the South African musicians Johnny Dyani
Johnny Dyani

Johnny Mbizo Dyani was a South African jazz double bassist and pianist who played with such musicians as Don Cherry , Steve Lacy, David Murray and Wadada Leo Smith....
 and Louis Moholo
Louis Moholo

Louis Tebugo Moholo , is a South African jazz drummer.He formed The Blue Notes with Chris McGregor, Johnny Dyani, Nikele Moyake, Mongezi Feza and Dudu Pukwana, and emigrated to Europe with them in 1964, eventually settling in London, where he formed part of a South African exile community that made an important contribution to British jazz....
 (their visit to Buenos Aires is documented on The Forest and the Zoo
The Forest And The Zoo

The Forest and the Zoo is the first live album by Steve Lacy and was released on the ESP-Disk label in 1967. It features a concert performance recorded in Buenos Aires, Argentina by Lacy, Enrico Rava, Johnny Dyani and Louis Moholo....
, ESP, 1967). After a brief return in New York, he returned to Italy, then in 1970 moved to Paris, where he lived until the last two years of his life. He became a widely respected figure on the European jazz scene, though he remained less well-known in the U.S.

The core of Lacy's activities from the 1970s to the 1990s was his sextet: his wife, singer/cellist Irene Aebi, soprano/alto saxophonist Steve Potts
Steve Potts (jazz musician)

Steve Potts is an American jazz saxophonistPotts studied architecture in Los Angeles and took lessons by Charles Lloyd . Afterwards he went to New York where he was student of Eric Dolphy and performed with Roy Ayers, Richard Davis, Joe Henderson, Reggie Workman, and Chico Hamilton....
, pianist Bobby Few
Bobby Few

Bobby Few is an American jazz pianist.Few was raised in Shaker Heights, a neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, and studied classical piano. He knew Albert Ayler as a youth, and the pair studied jazz and played together in high school....
, bassist Jean-Jacques Avenel, and drummer Oliver Johnson (later John Betsch
John Betsch

John Betsch is an American free jazz drummer.Betsch began on percussion at age nine, and attended Fisk University, Berklee College of Music and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst....
). Sometimes this group was scaled up to a large ensemble (e.g. Vespers, Soul Note, 1993), sometimes pared down to a quartet, trio, or even a two-saxophone duo. He played duos with pianist Eric Watson
Eric Watson (musician)

Eric Watson is a US-American jazz pianist and composer living in Paris.After absolving his studies at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music Watson moved to Paris as accompanist of a dance company....
. Lacy also, beginning in the 1970s, became a specialist in solo saxophone; he ranks with Anthony Braxton
Anthony Braxton

Anthony Braxton is an American composer, saxophone, clarinettist, flute, piano, and philosopher. He has created a large body of highly complex work....
 and Evan Parker
Evan Parker

Evan Shaw Parker is a United Kingdom free improvisation saxophone player from the European free jazz scene.Recording and performing prolifically with many collaborators, Parker was a pivotal figure in the development of European free jazz and free improvisation, and has pioneered or substantially expanded an array of extended techniques....
 in the development of this demanding form of improvisation.

Lacy was interested in all the arts: the visual arts and poetry in particular became important sources for him. Collaborating with painters and dancers in multimedia projects, he made musical settings of his favourite writers: Robert Creeley
Robert Creeley

Robert Creeley was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school's....
, Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett

Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish people writer, dramatist and poet. Beckett's work offers a bleak outlook on human culture and both formally and philosophically became increasingly minimalism....
, Tom Raworth
Tom Raworth

Tom Raworth is a London-born poet and visual artist who has published over forty books of poetry and prose since 1966. Raworth is a key figure in the British Poetry Revival....
, Taslima Nasrin
Taslima Nasrin

Taslima Nasrin is a Bengali people Bangladeshi ex-Physician turned author, an atheist feminist who describes herself as a secular humanist. She was born Nasreen Jahan Taslima to Rajab Ali and Idul Ara....
, Herman Melville
Herman Melville

Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet. His first three books gained much attention, the first becoming a bestseller, but after a fast-blooming literary success in the late 1840s, his popularity declined precipitously in the mid-1850s and never recovered during his lifetime....
, Brion Gysin
Brion Gysin

Brion Gysin was a Painting, writer, sound poet, and performance artist born in Taplow, Buckinghamshire.He is best known for his discovery of the cut-up technique used by William S....
 and other Beat writers, including settings for the Tao Te Ching and haiku
Haiku

' ', plural haiku, is a form of Japanese poetry, consisting of 17 Mora e , in three metrical phrases of 5, 7 and 5 morae respectively. Haiku typically contain a kigo, or seasonal reference, and a kireji or verbal caesura....
 poetry. As Creeley noted in The Poetry Project Newsletter, "There’s no way simply to make clear how particular Steve Lacy was to poets or how much he can now teach them by fact of his own practice and example. No one was ever more generous or perceptive."

In 1992, he was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship (nicknamed the "genius grant").

He also collaborated with a truly extraordinary range of musicians, from traditional jazz to the avant-garde to contemporary classical music. Outside of his regular sextet, his most regular collaborator was pianist Mal Waldron
Mal Waldron

Malcolm Earl Waldron was an United States jazz and world music pianist and composer, born in New York City.His jazz work was chiefly in the hard bop, post-bebop and free jazz genres....
, with whom he recorded a number of duet albums (notably Sempre Amore
Sempre Amore

Sempre Amore is an album by Steve Lacy and Mal Waldron released on the Italian Black Saint/Soul Note label in 1987. It features duo performances of tunes written by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn....
, a collection of Ellington/Strayhorn material, Soul Note, 1987).

Lacy returned to the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 in 2002, where he began teaching at the New England Conservatory of Music
New England Conservatory of Music

The New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, is the oldest independent Music school in the United States.The conservatory is home each year to 750 students pursuing undergraduate and graduate studies along with 1400 more in its Preparatory School as well as the School of Continuing Education....
 in Boston, Massachusetts
Boston, Massachusetts

Boston is the State capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the economic and cultural center of the region, and is sometimes regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England." Boston city proper had a 2007 est...
. One of his last public performances was in front of 25,000 people at the close of a peace
Peace

Peace is a term that most commonly refers to an absence of aggression, violence or hostility, but which also represents a larger concept wherein there are healthy or newly-healed interpersonal relationship or international relations, safety in matters of social or economic welfare, the acknowledgment of equality and fairness in political re...
 rally on Boston Common in March 2003, shortly before the US-led invasion of Iraq
2003 invasion of Iraq

The 2003 invasion of Iraq, from March 20 to May 1, 2003, was spearheaded by the United States, backed by United Kingdom forces and smaller contingents from Australia, Spain, Poland and Denmark....
.

Lacy was diagnosed with cancer in August 2003, he continued playing and teaching until weeks before his death at the age of 69.

Discography


As leader

  • Soprano Sax
    Soprano Sax (album)

    Soprano Sax is the debut album by Steve Lacy which was released on the Prestige Records label in 1958. It features performances by Lacy, Wynton Kelly, Buell Neidlinger and Dennis Charles....
     (1957)
  • Reflections
    Reflections (Steve Lacy album)

    Reflections is the second album by Steve Lacy which was released on the Prestige Records label in 1959. It features performances of tunes written by Thelonious Monk by Lacy, Mal Waldron, Buell Neidlinger and Elvin Jones....
     (1958)
  • The Straight Horn of Steve Lacy
    The Straight Horn of Steve Lacy

    The Straight Horn of Steve Lacy is the third album by Steve Lacy and the first to be released on the Candid Records label in 1961. It features performances of tunes written by Thelonious Monk, Cecil Taylor and Miles Davis by Lacy, Charles Davis, John Ore and Roy Haynes....
     (1960)
  • Evidence
    Evidence (Steve Lacy album)

    Evidence is the fourth album by Steve Lacy and was released on the Prestige Records label in 1962. It features performances of four tunes written by Thelonious Monk and two from Duke Ellington by Lacy, Don Cherry , Carl Brown and Billy Higgins....
     (1961)
  • School Days (1963)
  • Disposability
    Disposability

    Disposability is the fifth album by Steve Lacy and was released on the Italian RCA Records label in 1966. It features three tunes written by Thelonious Monk, one by Cecil Taylor, one by Carla Bley and four by Lacy performed by Lacy, Aldo Romano and Kent Carter....
     (1965)
  • Sortie
    Sortie (album)

    Sortie is the sixth album by soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy and was recorded in Italy in 1966 and released on the GTA label. It features six tunes written by Lacy and performed by Lacy, Enrico Rava, Aldo Romano and Kent Carter....
     (1966)
  • Zvatsha (unissued, 1966)
  • The Forest And The Zoo
    The Forest And The Zoo

    The Forest and the Zoo is the first live album by Steve Lacy and was released on the ESP-Disk label in 1967. It features a concert performance recorded in Buenos Aires, Argentina by Lacy, Enrico Rava, Johnny Dyani and Louis Moholo....
     (1967)
  • Roba (1969)
  • Moon
    Moon (Steve Lacy album)

    Moon is the ninth album by soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy and was recorded in Rome in 1969 and originally released on the BYG label. It features five compositions by Lacy performed by Lacy, Italo Toni, Claudo Volonte, Irene Aebi, Marcello Melis and Jaques Thollot....
     (1969)
  • Epistrophy
    Epistrophy (album)

    Epistrophy is the second album by Steve Lacy to consist entirely of tunes written by Thelonious Monk following Reflections . It was released in 1969 on the French BYG Actuel label and features performances by Lacy, Michel Graillier, Jean-Fran?ois Jenny Clark and Aldo Romano....
     (1969)
  • Stations (1970)
  • Wordless (1971)
  • Lapis (1971)
  • The Gap (1972)
  • Solo (1972)
  • Live in Lisbon: Estilhacos (1972)
  • Flaps, with Franz Koglmann
    Franz Koglmann

    Franz Koglmann is an Austrian people jazz composer. He performs on both the trumpet and flugelhorn in a variety of contexts, most often within avant-garde jazz and third stream contexts....
     (1972)
  • The Crust (1973)
  • Scraps (1974)
  • Saxophone Special (1974)
  • Flakes (1974)
  • Lumps (1974)
  • Straws (1975)
  • Dreams (1975)
  • Torments (1975)
  • Stalks (1975)
  • Solo at Mandara (1975)
  • The Wire (1975)
  • Distant Voices (1975)
  • Axieme
    Axieme (album)

    Axieme is a solo album by soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy. It was released in 1975 on the Red label. Although not labelled on the LP or CD releases it contains solo versions of Steve Lacy's compositions "Deadline", "The New Duck", "Tao ", "Coastline" and "The Crust"....
     (1975)
  • Stabs (1975)
  • Opium for Franz, with Bill Dixon
    Bill Dixon

    Bill Dixon is an United Statesn musician, composer, artist, and educator. He plays the trumpet, flugelhorn, and piano.In 1964 Dixon organized and produced the 'October Revolution in Jazz' in New York City and founded the Jazz Composers Guild....
     (1975)
  • Clangs, with Andrea Centazzo
    Andrea Centazzo

    Andrea Centazzo is an Italian-born American percussionist and composer of Minimalist music. He acquired U.S. citizenship in 2000 and lives in Los Angeles, California....
     (1976)
  • Trickles
    Trickles

    Trickles is the first album by Steve Lacy to be released on the Italian Black Saint Records label. It features performances of five of Lacy's compositions by Lacy, Roswell Rudd, Kent Carter and Beaver Harris....
     (1976)
  • Tao (1976)
  • Sidelines, with Michael Smith (1977)
  • Company, vol.4, with Derek Bailey
    Derek Bailey

    Derek Bailey was an English Experimental music guitarist and leading figure in the free improvisation movement....
     (1976)
  • Trio Live (1976)
  • Raps (1977)
  • Follies (1977)
  • Threads (1977)
  • Clinkers (1977)
  • Stamps (1977)
  • Catch (1977)
  • The Owl (1977)
  • Shots (1977)
  • Points (1978)
  • The Woe/Crops (1979)
  • The Way (1979)
  • Eronel (1979)
  • Troubles
    Troubles (Steve Lacy album)

    Troubles is the second album by Steve Lacy to be released on the Italian Black Saint Records label. It features performances of five of Lacy's compositions by Lacy, Steve Potts, Irene Aebi, Kent Carter and Oliver Johnson....
     (1979)
  • Duo: Alter Ego, with Walter Zuber Armstrong (1979)
  • Duo: Call Notes, with Walter Zuber Armstrong (1979)
  • Capers (1981)
  • Tips (1981)
  • Songs (1981)
  • Ballets (1981)
  • The Flame
    The Flame (Steve Lacy album)

    The Flame is the first album by Steve Lacy to be released on the Italian Black Saint Records label . It features four of Lacy's compositions and one by Bobby Few performed by Lacy, Bobby Few and Dennis Charles....
     (1982)
  • Blinks (1984)
  • Prospectus (1984)
  • Futurities (1985)
  • Chirps (1985)
  • The Condor (1986)
  • Outings (1986)
  • Hocus-Pocus (1986)
  • Deadline (1987)
  • Only Monk
    Only Monk

    Only Monk is the third album by Steve Lacy to be released on the Italian Black Saint/Soul Note label . It features solo performances of nine tunes written by Thelonious Monk by Lacy....
     (1987)
  • The Kiss (1987)
  • The Gleam (1987)
  • Dutch Masters, with Misha Mengelberg
    Misha Mengelberg

    Misha Mengelberg is a Netherlands jazz pianist and composer. He won the Gaudeamus International Composers Award in 1961.Mengelberg was born in Kiev in Ukraine, the son of the conductor Karel Mengelberg, who was himself the nephew of the conductor Willem Mengelberg....
    , Han Bennink
    Han Bennink

    Han Bennink is a Netherlands jazz drummer, percussionist. He is also a talented multi-instrumentalist, and on occasion his recordings have featured his playing on clarinet, violin, banjo and piano....
    , George Lewis
    George Lewis (trombonist)

    George E. Lewis is a trombone player, composer, and scholar in the fields of jazz and experimental music. He has been a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians since 1971....
    , Ernst Rejiseger (1987)
  • Explorations, with Subroto Roy Chowdury (1987)
  • Live in Budapest, with Steve Potts
    Steve Potts

    Steven 'Steve' Potts is an United States of America-born England former professional football . He played as a defender and is chiefly associated with his time spent at West Ham United F.C.....
     (1987)
  • The Amiens Concert, with Eric Watson
    Eric Watson

    Eric Watson may refer to:*Eric Watson , American jazz pianist and composer*Eric Watson , British photographer*Eric Watson , New Zealand businessman, owner of New Zealand Warriors rugby league team and Hanover Finance...
     and John Lindberg
    John Lindberg

    John Lindberg is an American jazz double-bassist.Lindberg studied at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and moved to new York City in 1977....
     (1987)
  • Paris Blues, with Gil Evans
    Gil Evans

    Gil Evans was a jazz pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader, active in the United States. He played a seminal role in the development of cool jazz, modal jazz, free jazz and jazz-rock, and collaborated extensively with Miles Davis....
     (1987)
  • Momentum
    Momentum (Steve Lacy album)

    Momentum is the first album by Steve Lacy to be released on the RCA Novus label. It was released in 1987 and features six of Lacy's compositions with texts by Giulia Niccolai, Herman Melville, and Brion Gysin performed by Lacy, Bobby Few, Steve Potts, Jean-Jacques Avenel, Oliver Johnson and Irene Aebi....
     (1987)
  • The Window
    The Window (album)

    The Window is an album by Steve Lacy which was released on the Italian Black Saint Records label in 1988. It features six of Lacy's compositions, one featuring text by the poet Mary Frazee, performed by Lacy, Jean-Jacques Avenel and Oliver Johnson....
     (1988)
  • Image (1989)
  • The Door
    The Door (Steve Lacy album)

    The Door is the second album by Steve Lacy to be released on the RCA Novus label. It was released in 1989 and features four of Lacy's compositions and one each by Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Duke Ellington and George Handy performed by Lacy, Bobby Few, Steve Potts , Jean-Jacques Avenel, Oliver Johnson and Irene Aebi with Sam Woodyard gu...
     (1989)
  • Morning Joy (1990)
  • Anthem
    Anthem (Steve Lacy album)

    Anthem is an album by Steve Lacy released on the RCA Novus label in 1990. It features five of Lacy's compositions with texts by Osip Mandelstam and Mary Frazee performed by Lacy, Bobby Few, Steve Potts , Jean-Jacques Avenel, John Betsh, Sam Kelly, Glenn Ferris, La Velle and Irene Aebi....
     (1990)
  • Rushes: Ten Songs from Russia (1990)
  • Steve Lacy Solo (1991)
  • More Monk
    More Monk

    More Monk is the sixth album by Steve Lacy to be released on the Italian Black Saint/Soul Note label . It features solo performances of eleven tunes written by Thelonious Monk by Lacy....
     (1991)
  • Flim-Flam (1991)
  • Itinery (1991)
  • Remains (1992)
  • Live A Sweet Basil (1992)
  • Spirit of Mingus (1992)
  • We See (1993)
  • Vespers (1993)
  • Three Blokes, with Evan Parker
    Evan Parker

    Evan Shaw Parker is a United Kingdom free improvisation saxophone player from the European free jazz scene.Recording and performing prolifically with many collaborators, Parker was a pivotal figure in the development of European free jazz and free improvisation, and has pioneered or substantially expanded an array of extended techniques....
     and Lol Coxhill
    Lol Coxhill

    Lowen Coxhill, generally known as Lol Coxhill , is a free improvisation saxophone. He usually plays the soprano saxophone or sopranino saxophone saxophones....
     (1994)
  • The Rendezvous, with Barry Wedgle (1994)
  • Revenue (1995)
  • Packet (1995)
  • Actuality (1995)
  • Bye-Ya (1996)
  • Five Facings (1996)
  • Associates (1996)
  • Blues for Aida (1996)
  • 5 x Monk 5 x Lacy (1997)
  • Live at Unity Temple (1998)
  • Sands (1998)
  • The Cry (1999)
  • The Rent (1999)
  • The Joan Miro Foundation Concert (1999)
  • Monk's Dream
    Monk's Dream (Steve Lacy album)

    Monk's Dream is an album by Steve Lacy and Roswell Rudd released on the Verve Music Group label in 2000. It features performances by Lacy, Rudd, Jean-Jacques Avenel, John Betsch and Irene Aebi's vocals on two tracks....
     (1999)
  • Snips (2000)
  • Hooky (2000)
  • Best Wishes (2001)
  • The Holy La (2002)
  • 10 of Dukes & 6 Originals (2002)
  • The Beat Suite (2003)
  • Materioso (Monk's Moods) (2003)
  • New Jazz Meeting Baden-Baden 2002 (2004)


with Mal Waldron
Mal Waldron

Malcolm Earl Waldron was an United States jazz and world music pianist and composer, born in New York City.His jazz work was chiefly in the hard bop, post-bebop and free jazz genres....

  • Journey Without End (1971)
  • Mal Waldron with the Steve Lacy Quintet
    Mal Waldron with the Steve Lacy Quintet

    Mal Waldon with the Steve Lacy Quintet is an album by Steve Lacy and Mal Waldron released on the French America label in 1972. The original LP release featured three tracks and the 2005 CD reissue added two alternate takes....
     (1972)
  • Hard Talk (1975)
  • One-Upmanship (1977)
  • Moods (1978)
  • Snake-Out (1982)
  • Let's Call This (1986)
  • Sempre Amore
    Sempre Amore

    Sempre Amore is an album by Steve Lacy and Mal Waldron released on the Italian Black Saint/Soul Note label in 1987. It features duo performances of tunes written by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn....
     (1987)
  • Live at Sweet Basil (1987)
  • Hot House
    Hot House (Steve Lacy album)

    Hot House is an album by Steve Lacy and Mal Waldron released on the RCA Novus label in 1991. It features duo performances of tunes written by Herbie Nichols, Tadd Dameron, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk....
     (1991)
  • Let's Call This... Esteem (1993)
  • I Remember Thelonious (1996)
  • Communique
    Communique (Steve Lacy & Mal Waldron album)

    Communique is an album by Steve Lacy and Mal Waldron released on the Italian Black Saint/Soul Note label in 1987. It features duo performances of tunes written by Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, Elmo Hope and originals by Lacy and Waldron....
     (1997)
  • One More Time (2002)
  • Japan Dream (2004)
  • At the Bimhuis 1982 (2006)


Albums featured

  • Dick Sutton - Jazz Idiom (1954)
  • Dick Sutton Sextet - Progressive Dixieland (1954)
  • Tom Stewart - Quintet/Sextet (1956)
  • Whitey Mitchell Sextette - Whitey Mitchell Sextette (1956)
  • Joe Puma
    Joe Puma

    Joe Puma was an American jazz guitarist.Puma's first professional experience came with Joe Roland in 1949-50. He acted as a session musician for many jazz musicians of the 1950s, including Louie Bellson, Artie Shaw, Eddie Bert, Herbie Mann, Mat Mathews, Chris Connor, and Paul Quinichette; he also recorded extensively as a leader at this ti...
     - Modern Jazz Sampler (1956)
  • Cecil Taylor
    Cecil Taylor

    Cecil Percival Taylor is an United States pianist and poet. Classically trained, Taylor is generally acknowledged as one of the inventors of free jazz....
     - Jazz Advance (1956)
  • Gil Evans
    Gil Evans

    Gil Evans was a jazz pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader, active in the United States. He played a seminal role in the development of cool jazz, modal jazz, free jazz and jazz-rock, and collaborated extensively with Miles Davis....
     - Gil Evans & Ten
    Gil Evans & Ten

    Gil Evans & Ten is the first album by pianist, conductor, arranger and composer Gil Evans as a leader and was released on the Prestige Records label in 1957....
     (1957)
  • Cecil Taylor
    Cecil Taylor

    Cecil Percival Taylor is an United States pianist and poet. Classically trained, Taylor is generally acknowledged as one of the inventors of free jazz....
     - The Cecil Taylor Quartet at Newport (1958)
  • Gil Evans
    Gil Evans

    Gil Evans was a jazz pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader, active in the United States. He played a seminal role in the development of cool jazz, modal jazz, free jazz and jazz-rock, and collaborated extensively with Miles Davis....
     - Great Jazz Standards (1959)
  • Miles Davis
    Miles Davis

    Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
     - At Carnegie Hall (1961)
  • Miles Davis
    Miles Davis

    Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
     - Quiet Nights
    Quiet Nights

    Quiet Nights is an album recorded in 1962 and 1963 by Miles Davis and Gil Evans. The first six tunes were recorded in 1962 with an orchestra conducted by Evans, and "Summer Night" was recorded in 1963 by Davis with a short-lived quintet , during the sessions for the album Seven Steps to Heaven , although Coleman lays out on this numb...
     (1963)
  • Thelonious Monk
    Thelonious Monk

    Thelonious Sphere Monk was an American jazz pianist and composer.Widely considered one of the most important musicians in jazz -- he is one of only three jazz musicians to be featured on the cover of Time magazine -- Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "Epi...
     - Big Band and Quartet In Concert (1964)
  • Bobby Hackett
    Bobby Hackett

    Robert Leo "Bobby" Hackett was a jazz musician who played trumpet, cornet and guitar, and played with the Glenn Miller Orchestra during 1941-42....
     - Hello Louis (1964)
  • Gil Evans
    Gil Evans

    Gil Evans was a jazz pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader, active in the United States. He played a seminal role in the development of cool jazz, modal jazz, free jazz and jazz-rock, and collaborated extensively with Miles Davis....
     - The Individualism of Gil Evans (1964)
  • Kenny Burrell
    Kenny Burrell

    Kenneth Earl "Kenny" Burrell is an United States jazz guitarist. His playing is grounded in bebop and blues; he has performed and recorded with a wide range of jazz musicians....
     - Guitar Forms (1965)
  • Jazz Composers Orchestra - Communication (1965)
  • Carla Bley
    Carla Bley

    Carla Bley, n?e Borg, is an United States jazz composer, jazz piano, organist and band leader. An important figure in the Free Jazz movement of the 1960s, she is perhaps best known for her jazz opera Escalator Over The Hill , as well as a book of compositions that have been performed by many other artists, including Gary Burton, Ji...
     - Jazz Realities (1966)
  • Giorgio Gaslini
    Giorgio Gaslini

    Giorgio Gaslini is an Italian jazz pianist and composer.He began performing at 13 and recorded with his jazz trio at 16. In the 1950s and 1960s he performed with his own quartet....
     - Nuovi Sentimenti (1966)
  • Gary Burton
    Gary Burton

    Gary Burton is an United States jazz vibraphone.A true original on the vibraphone, Burton developed a pianistic style of four-mallet technique as an alternative to the usual two-mallets....
     - A Genuine Tong Funeral (1967)
  • Max Roach
    Max Roach

    Maxwell Lemuel Roach was an American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer.A pioneer of bebop, Roach went on to work in many other styles of music, and is generally considered one of the most important drummers in history....
     - Sounds as a Roach (1968)
  • Giorgio Gaslini
    Giorgio Gaslini

    Giorgio Gaslini is an Italian jazz pianist and composer.He began performing at 13 and recorded with his jazz trio at 16. In the 1950s and 1960s he performed with his own quartet....
     - Il Grido: Big Band Live (1968)
  • Giovanni Tommaso - Indefinitive Atmosphere (1969)
  • Giovanni Tommaso - The Healthy Food Band (1970)
  • Alan Silva
    Alan Silva

    Alan Silva is an United States of America free jazz double bassist and keyboard player.Born a British subject to an Azores Portugal woman and a black Bermudian man known only as "Ruby" at the very height of segregation, Silva emigrated to the United States at the age of five with his mother, eventually acquiring U.S....
     - Seasons-Stereophonic-Pictures (1970)
  • Giorgio Gaslini & Jean-Luc Ponty - Fabbrica Occupata (1973)
  • Maria Monti
    Maria Monti

    Maria Monti is a Italy film actress, singer and theatre artist.Entering film in 1962 in Canzoni a tempo di twist she made nearly 30 film appearances between 1962 and 2002....
     - Il Bestiario (1974)
  • Globe Unity Special - Evidence, vol.1 (1975)
  • Globe Unity Special - Into the Valley, vol.2 (1975)
  • Roswell Rudd
    Roswell Rudd

    Roswell Rudd is an United States jazz trombone and composer.Although skilled in all styles of jazz and other genres of music, he is known primarily for his work in free jazz and avant-garde jazz....
     - Blow-Bone (1976)
  • Area
    Area (band)

    Area - International POPular Group, most commonly known as Area or AreA, was an Italian progressive rock, jazz fusion, electronic, experimental groupb) ?It was the mid-1970s and live events roused enthusiasm as never before; they fulfilled the need to be together and the illusion of continuing as a person....
     - Maledetti (1976)
  • Area
    Area (band)

    Area - International POPular Group, most commonly known as Area or AreA, was an Italian progressive rock, jazz fusion, electronic, experimental groupb) ?It was the mid-1970s and live events roused enthusiasm as never before; they fulfilled the need to be together and the illusion of continuing as a person....
     - Event '76 (1976)
  • Company
    Company

    Generally, a company is a form of business organization. The precise definition varies.In the United States, a company is a corporation—or, less commonly, an association, partnership, or union—that carries on an industrial enterprise." Generally, a company may be a "corporation, partnership, association, joint-stock company, Inv...
     - Company, vol.5, 6, 7 (1977)
  • Musica Elettronica Viva
    Musica Elettronica Viva

    Musica Elettronica Viva is a live acoustic/electronic improvisational group formed in Rome, Italy, in 1966. Over the years, its members have included Alvin Curran, Richard Teitelbaum, Frederic Rzewski, Allan Bryant, Carol Plantamura, Ivan Vandor, Steve Lacy, and Jon Phetteplace....
     - United Patchwork (1977)
  • Kenny Davern
    Kenny Davern

    Kenny Davern , born John Kenneth Davern, was one of the premier jazz clarinetists of his generation.He was born in Huntington, New York, Long Island to a family of mixed Jewish and Irish-Catholic ancestry....
     - Unexpected (1978)
  • Gil Evans
    Gil Evans

    Gil Evans was a jazz pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader, active in the United States. He played a seminal role in the development of cool jazz, modal jazz, free jazz and jazz-rock, and collaborated extensively with Miles Davis....
     - Parabola (1978)
  • Laboratorio della Quercia - Laboratorio della Quercia del Tasso (1978)
  • Globe Unity Orchestra
    Globe Unity Orchestra

    The Globe Unity Orchestra is a free jazz ensemble.Globe Unity was formed in autumn 1966 with a commission received by Alexander von Schlippenbach from the JazzFest Berlin....
     - Compositions (1979)
  • Amarcord Nino Rota (on "Roma") (1980)
  • Interpretations Of Monk (1981)
  • Roswell Rudd
    Roswell Rudd

    Roswell Rudd is an United States jazz trombone and composer.Although skilled in all styles of jazz and other genres of music, he is known primarily for his work in free jazz and avant-garde jazz....
     - Regeneration (1983)
  • Misha Mengelberg
    Misha Mengelberg

    Misha Mengelberg is a Netherlands jazz pianist and composer. He won the Gaudeamus International Composers Award in 1961.Mengelberg was born in Kiev in Ukraine, the son of the conductor Karel Mengelberg, who was himself the nephew of the conductor Willem Mengelberg....
     - Change Of Season (1984)
  • Tiziana Ghiglioni - Somebody Special (1986)


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