Steve Lacy

Steve Lacy
Title Steve Lacy PDF eBook
Author Jason Weiss
Publisher Duke University Press
Pages 303
Release 2006-08-09
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0822388588

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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

Steve Lacy

Steve Lacy
Title Steve Lacy PDF eBook
Author Jason Weiss
Publisher Duke University Press
Pages 308
Release 2006-08-09
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780822338154

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A collection of thirty-four interviews with the innovative soprano saxophonist and jazz composer Steve Lacy (1934&–2004).

The Last of the Bandit Riders ... Revisited

The Last of the Bandit Riders ... Revisited
Title The Last of the Bandit Riders ... Revisited PDF eBook
Author Matt Warner
Publisher
Pages 176
Release 2000
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780965669412

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Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Monk
Title Thelonious Monk PDF eBook
Author Thomas Fitterling
Publisher
Pages 246
Release 1997
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN

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This book explores Monk's earliest years growing up in North Carolina, his heyday as a composer/bandleader, and the twilight of his career. The author analyzes Monk's recorded legacy, from his first dates with Coleman Hawkins in 1944 to the 1971 London sessions with Art Blakey and Al McKibbon.

Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Monk
Title Thelonious Monk PDF eBook
Author Robin D. G. Kelley
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 624
Release 2010-11-02
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1439190461

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The first full biography of Thelonious Monk, written by a brilliant historian, with full access to the family's archives and with dozens of interviews.

Free Jazz

Free Jazz
Title Free Jazz PDF eBook
Author Jeff Schwartz
Publisher Routledge
Pages 465
Release 2018-05-23
Genre Music
ISBN 1315311755

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Free Jazz: A Research and Information Guide offers carefully selected and annotated sources on free jazz, with comprehensive coverage of English-language academic books, journal articles, and dissertations, and selective coverage of trade books, popular periodicals, documentary films, scores, Masters’ theses, online texts, and materials in other languages. Free Jazz will be a major reference tool for students, faculty, librarians, artists, scholars, critics, and serious fans navigating this literature.

An Object of Beauty

An Object of Beauty
Title An Object of Beauty PDF eBook
Author Steve Martin
Publisher Grand Central Publishing
Pages 228
Release 2010-11-23
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0446573663

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Lacey Yeager is young, captivating, and ambitious enough to take the NYC art world by storm. Groomed at Sotheby's and hungry to keep climbing the social and career ladders put before her, Lacey charms men and women, old and young, rich and even richer with her magnetic charisma and liveliness. Her ascension to the highest tiers of the city parallel the soaring heights--and, at times, the dark lows--of the art world and the country from the late 1990s through today.