Steve Lacy - N Side (2019)
https://youtu.be/udOf9cPnR1A

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The Forest and the Zoo is an album by Steve Lacy. It was released by ESP.

The music comes from a concert in Argentina.[2] The quartet is made up of Lacy on soprano saxophone, Enrico Rava on trumpet, Johnny Dyani on bass, and Louis Moholo on drums.

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 3½ stars stating "This is not normally considered an essential part of Lacy's very large catalog, but in the 21st century it does deserve to be heartily and critically reexamined. The cover painting by the late artist Bob Thompson makes the set worth owning simply for its beauty. ".[2] An All About Jazz reviewer concluded: "Rather than the liberating spirituality sought after in so much free jazz Lacy's unit remains light-hearted and whimsical, even as it soars above the ground below."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kIFRYjTAfw&list=RD-kIFRYjTAfw&start_radio=1

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New York City R&B is a 1961 free jazz album originally recorded at a session by bassist Buell Neidlinger but subsequently reissued under joint names with the pianist Cecil Taylor.

Writing for AllMusic, Scott Yanow commented: "The music is quite advanced for the period, although more accessible to the average listener than Taylor's later recordings; one can hear, even in abstract form, his connection to the bebop tradition and to Duke Ellington." - Wikipedia

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Sortie by Steve Lacy, released on Polydor in 1966.

ILY wrote on Rate My Music:

Delineated by the 11-minute "Sortie", a scattered and disconnected fresco of bright-colored convulsions, Sortie delivered constant battles of mutual completeness between Steve Lacy on the saxophone and Enrico Rava on the trumpet, predating the manic funk-jazz of Miles Davis in the '70s. "Black Elk" and the 14-minute "Living T Blues" were cut from the same cloth, both depicting eye-catching episodes of feverish imagination and contained shudders.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCT-ZXM4dL0&list=RDXCT-ZXM4dL0&start_radio=1

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Jazztodon artist of the week: Steve Lacy!

Remarks by Danilo Perez: “Steve Lacy showed us that being a jazz musician is the work of a lifetime. His compositions and improvisations are full of wisdom and life. He taught us the power of words through his music. Hearing his soprano playing was a life changing experience, because he approached his sound, improvisation and technique as if he believed it was a test of man's sincerity.

Last year while playing a duo concert in New York, he took me to an exhibition of a great Chinese painter. His detailed comments about the paintings offered a great lesson in color subtlety and form. I found myself contemplating his words of wisdom all afternoon. That night after the very inspired concert we played he said; ”Danilo we were painting tonight.“

He was very kind to me and to many people who knew him. As he would say the music and the artist become one as we get older.”

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