Weiss Steve Lacy

Conversations
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8858-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 302 Seiten

Reihe: e-Duke books scholarly collection

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weiss, Jason

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Einzelne Komponisten und Musiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

4. Goodbye, New York (Garth W. Caylor, Jr., 1965) 24

5. Faithful Lacy (Philippe Carles, 1965) 33

6. Twenty-six New Jazzmen Put to the Question (1965) 41

7. Steve Lacy Speaks (Paul Gros-Claude, 1971) 43

8. Improvisation (Derek Bailey, 1974) 48

9. Evidence and Reflections (Alain-Rene Hardy and Philippe Quinsac, 1976) 52

10. On Play and Process, and Musiacal Insticnts (Raymond Gervais and Yves Bouliane, 1976) 62

11. In the Spirit (Roberto Terlizzi, 1976) 78

12. The Spark, the Gap, the Leap ( Brian Case, 1979) 84

13. In Search of the Way (Jason Weiss, 1980) 97

14. Songs: Steve Lacy and Brion Gysin (Jason Weiss, 1981) 104

15. Unrecognized Giean? (Xavier Prevost, 1982) 109

16. Futurities (Isabelle Galloni d’Istria, 1984) 111

17. The Solitude of the Long-Distance Player (Gerard Rouy, 1987) 115

18. On Practicing, and Exploring the Instrument (Kirk Silsbee, 1988) 123

19. Art is Made to Trouble (Christian Gauffre, 1990) 133

20. Shop Talk (Mel Martin, 1990) 138

21. It’s Got to Be Alive (Ben Ratliff, 1991)

22. Regarding the Voice: Steve Lacy and Irene Aebi (Jason Weiss, 1993) 146

23. A Petite Fleur for S. B. (Philippe Carles, 1994) 156

24. Sculpture and Jazz (Alain Kirili, 1994) 158

25. One Shouldn’t Make Too Much Noise, There’s Enough Already (Franck Medioni, 1995) 163

26. Living Lacy (Gerard Rouy, 1995) 166

27. Scratching the Seventies (Etienne Brunet, 1996) 167

28. Forget Paris (John Corbett, 1996) 185

29. In the Old Days (Lee Friedlander and Maria Friedlander, 1997) 193

30. The Glorious Thirty (Franck Bergerot and Alex Dutilh, 2000) 208

31. Farewell Paris (Gerard Rouy, 2002) 212

32. Invisible Jukebox (Christoph Cos, 2002) 217

33. Big Kisses from Boston (Franck Medioni, 2003) 226

34. The Art of the Song: Steve Lacy and Irene Aebi (Ed Hazell, 2004) 228

Part 2. Writings by Steve Lacy

1. MEV Notes (ca. 1968) 244

2. Roba (early 1970s) 248

3. Garden Variety (ca. 1974) 249

4. FMP: 10 Years Jubilee (ca. 1979) 250

5. What about Monk? (1980) 251

6. He Flew (1980) 253

7. In the Upper Air: Albert Ayler (1996 256

8. Shiro and I (1997) 257

9. Short Takes (1998) 258

10. Yoshizawa (1998) 260

11. Made in France (2000) 261

12. Song Sources (undated) 266

13. Residency Statement (2004) 267

Part 3. Song Scores

Dreams (1975) 272

Mind’s Heart (1982) 273

3 Haiku (1998) 274

Selected Discography 277

Credits 281

Index 283

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 3

Part 1. Interviews with Steve Lacy

1. Introducing Steve Lacy (1959) 13

2. My Favorite Thing (1961) 17

3. The Land of Monk (1963) 20

Über Autor(innen)

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.