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Steve Lacy

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Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it.


— Steve Lacy


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Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same.


— Steve Lacy


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The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.


— Steve Lacy


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When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.


— Steve Lacy


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You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others.


— Steve Lacy


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Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.


— Steve Lacy


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Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work.


— Steve Lacy


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Circumstances can be very important. Find the right people to work with.


— Steve Lacy


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I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio.


— Steve Lacy


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I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.


— Steve Lacy


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About Steve Lacy

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Did you know about Steve Lacy?

Lacy was interested in all the arts: the visual arts and poetry in particular became important sources for him. Live in Berlin
Lacy played his 'farewell concerts to Europe' in Belgium in duo and solo for a small but motivated public. Europe and sextet
Lacy's first visit to Europe came in 1965 with a visit to Copenhagen in the company of Kenny Drew; he went to Italy and formed a quartet with Italian trumpeter Enrico Rava and the South African musicians Johnny Dyani and Louis Moholo (their visit to Buenos Aires is documented on The Forest and the Zoo ESP 1967).

He worked extensively in experimental jazz and dabbled in free improvisation but Lacy's music was typically melodic and tightly-structured. Beyond Monk Lacy performed the work of jazz composers such as Charles Mingus Duke Ellington and Herbie Nichols; unlike many jazz musicians he rarely played standard popular or show tunes.

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