Steve Lacy: Conversations - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0822338157 ISBN 13: 9780822338154

Verlag: Duke University Press, 2006

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Steve Lacy: Conversations is a collection of thirty-four interviews with the innovative saxophonist and jazz composer. Lacy (1934-2004), a pioneer in making the soprano saxophone a contemporary jazz instrument, was a prolific performer and composer, with hundreds of recordings to his name.

This volume brings together interviews that appeared in a variety of magazines between 1959 and 2004. Conducted by writers, critics, musicians, visual artists, a philosopher, and an architect, the interviews indicate the evolution of Lacy's extraordinary career and thought. Lacy began playing the soprano saxophone at sixteen, and was soon performing with Dixieland musicians much older than he. By nineteen he was playing with the pianist Cecil Taylor, who ignited his interest in the avant-garde. He eventually became the foremost proponent of Thelonious Monk's music. Lacy played with a broad range of musicians, including Monk and Gil Evans, and led his own bands. A voracious reader and the recipient of a MacArthur "genius" grant, Lacy was particularly known for setting to music literary texts-such as the Tao Te Ching, and the work of poets including Samuel Beckett, Robert Creeley, and Taslima Nasrin-as well as for collaborating with painters and dancers in multimedia projects.

Lacy lived in Paris from 1970 until 2002, and his music and ideas reflect a decades-long cross-pollination of cultures. Half of the interviews in this collection originally appeared in French sources and were translated specifically for this book. Jason Weiss provides a general introduction, as well as short introductions to each of the interviews and to the selection of Lacy's own brief writings that appears at the end of the book. The volume also includes three song scores, a selected discography of Lacy's recordings, and many photos from the personal collection of his wife and longtime collaborator, Irene Aebi.

Interviews by: Derek Bailey, Franck Bergerot, Yves Bouliane, Etienne Brunet, Philippe Carles, Brian Case, Garth W. Caylor Jr., John Corbett, Christoph Cox, Alex Dutilh, Lee Friedlander, Maria Friedlander, Isabelle Galloni d'Istria, Christian Gauffre, Raymond Gervais, Paul Gros-Claude, Alain-René Hardy, Ed Hazell, Alain Kirili, Mel Martin, Franck Médioni, Xavier Prévost, Philippe Quinsac, Ben Ratliff, Gérard Rouy, Kirk Silsbee, Roberto Terlizzi, Jason Weiss

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Jason Weiss is the author of The Lights of Home: A Century of Latin American Writers in Paris and the forthcoming novel Faces by the Wayside. He is the editor of Back in No Time: The Brion Gysin Reader.

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"Steve Lacy's soul-rending sounds emerge out of the chaos of our times like the announcement of the beautiful nonviolent anarchist revolution. In the passionate intelligence of his compositions, every note is the sound of freedom."--Judith Malina, actress, writer, and co-founder of the Living Theatre

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Contents

Acknowledgments.............................................................................................ixIntroduction................................................................................................31 Introducing Steve Lacy (1959).............................................................................132 My Favorite Thing (1961)..................................................................................173 The Land of Monk (1963)...................................................................................204 Goodbye, New York (Garth W. Caylor, Jr., 1965)............................................................245 Faithful Lacy (Philippe Carles, 1965).....................................................................336 Twenty-six New Jazzmen Put to the Question (1965).........................................................417 Steve Lacy Speaks (Paul Gros-Claude, 1971)................................................................438 Improvisation (Derek Bailey, 1974)........................................................................489 Evidence and Reflections (Alain-Ren Hardy and Philippe Quinsac, 1976)....................................5210 On Play and Process, and Musical Instincts (Raymond Gervais and Yves Bouliane, 1976).....................6211 In the Spirit (Roberto Terlizzi, 1976)...................................................................7812 The Spark, the Gap, the Leap (Brian Case, 1979)..........................................................8413 In Search of the Way (Jason Weiss, 1980).................................................................9714 Songs: Steve Lacy and Brion Gysin (Jason Weiss, 1981)....................................................10415 Unrecognized Giant? (Xavier Prvost, 1982)...............................................................10916 Futurities (Isabelle Galloni d'Istria, 1984).............................................................11117 The Solitude of the Long-Distance Player (Grard Rouy, 1987).............................................11518 On Practicing, and Exploring the Instrument (Kirk Silsbee, 1988).........................................12319 Art is Made to Trouble (Christian Gauffre, 1990).........................................................13020 Shop Talk (Mel Martin, 1990).............................................................................13321 It's Got to Be Alive (Ben Ratliff, 1991).................................................................13822 Regarding the Voice: Steve Lacy and Irene Aebi (Jason Weiss, 1993).......................................14623 A Petite Fleur for S. B. (Philippe Carles, 1994).........................................................15624 Sculpture and Jazz (Alain Kirili, 1994)..................................................................15825 One Shouldn't Make Too Much Noise, There's Enough Already (Franck Mdioni, 1995).........................16326 Living Lacy (Grard Rouy, 1995)..........................................................................16627 Scratching the Seventies (tienne Brunet, 1996)..........................................................16728 Forget Paris (John Corbett, 1996)........................................................................18529 In the Old Days (Lee Friedlander and Maria Friedlander, 1997)............................................19330 The Glorious Thirty (Franck Bergerot and Alex Dutilh, 2000)..............................................20831 Farewell Paris (Grard Rouy, 2002).......................................................................21232 Invisible Jukebox (Christoph Cox, 2002)..................................................................21733 Big Kisses from Boston (Franck Mdioni, 2003)............................................................22634 The Art of the Song: Steve Lacy and Irene Aebi (Ed Hazell, 2004).........................................2281 MEV Notes (ca. 1968)......................................................................................2442 Roba (early 1970s)........................................................................................2483 Garden Variety (ca. 1974).................................................................................2494 FMP: 10 Years Jubilee (ca. 1979)..........................................................................2505 What about Monk? (1980)...................................................................................2516 He Flew (1980)............................................................................................2537 In the Upper Air: Albert Ayler (1996).....................................................................2568 Shiro and I (1997)........................................................................................2579 Short Takes (1998)........................................................................................25810 Yoshizawa (1998).........................................................................................26011 Made in France (2000)....................................................................................26112 Song Sources (undated)...................................................................................26613 Residency Statement (2004)...............................................................................267Dreams (1975)...............................................................................................272Mind's Heart (1982).........................................................................................2733 Haiku (1998)..............................................................................................274Selected Discography........................................................................................277Credits.....................................................................................................281Index.......................................................................................................283

Chapter One

Introducing Steve Lacy

By the time of his first interview, less than a decade after he picked up the soprano saxophone, Lacy had been playing all over New York and traversed the full range of jazz history. He had already recorded several Dixieland sessions as well as first dates with Cecil Taylor's and Gil Evans's ensembles, and he had also recorded his own first two albums, Soprano Sax and Reflections, the latter devoted to Thelonious Monk's music (and the first of many recordings with the pianist Mal Waldron).

Soon after the Monk album came out, this interview appeared in the Jazz Review (September 1959), edited in New York by Nat Hentoff and Martin Williams. Presented as an extended monologue of Lacy talking, it had an unattributed introduction that laid out his itinerary up till then:

Steve Lacy, 25, is a native New Yorker. He has a wife, two children, two cats, and lives in a loft just off the Bowery, over a cellophane bag factory. Being in a manufacturing district enables him to play his soprano saxophone any hour of the day or night. Steve began playing jazz about eight years ago. His first gig was at the Stuyvesant Casino (not far from his present neighborhood), and he was billed as the "Bechet of Today." His work in Dixieland continued for the next couple of years with men like Rex Stewart, Max Kaminsky, Buck Clayton, Pee Wee Russell and Lips Page. He spent six months in Boston...

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• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0822338157
• ISBN 13: 9780822338154
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
• Herausgeber: Weiss Jason
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