Big Al Posted June 6, 2004 Report Posted June 6, 2004 Very sad news indeed. RIP Mr. Lacy; your voice, like Elvin's, will never be silenced. Quote
clifford_thornton Posted June 6, 2004 Report Posted June 6, 2004 Shit, I just learned about this tonight. It is very upsetting how many greats we've lost lately, but at least the great orchestra in the sky has another great soprano chair... and he'll be playing with Mal again. I saw him here in MSP last fall and he looked pretty frail, but his playing was on form. I thought he'd be around forever, though... Quote
alankin Posted June 6, 2004 Report Posted June 6, 2004 (edited) That 1990 interview was quite interesting. [...] I worked with [Monk's] quintet for a season, about four months with Charlie Rouse. There's a pirate tape and there are three tunes that were all recorded at a festival in Philadelphia in 1960, Evidence, Blue Monk and Rhythm-a-ning. [...] Has anyone heard this tape?! Edited June 6, 2004 by alankin Quote
Pete C Posted June 6, 2004 Report Posted June 6, 2004 Has anyone heard this tape?! Yes. The sound quality is very bad. Lacy takes very short solos compared to Rouse. WKCR played it during their Lacy festival. Quote
RainyDay Posted June 6, 2004 Report Posted June 6, 2004 (edited) I was not familiar with Mr. Lacy's work. For whatever, reason, he just wasn't on my radar screen. KCSM played a tribute to him last night and others played his music off and on all day yesterday. What I heard sounded wonderful and I'm sorry I did not get the chance to see him perform. RIP. Edited June 6, 2004 by RainyDay Quote
Swinger Posted June 7, 2004 Report Posted June 7, 2004 Sad news indeed! He was definitely one of my favorite artists.I'm going to miss him very much! I'm going to play his Dreher set with Mal Waldron tonight.Especially the track "The Seagulls of Kristiansund". What a track and Steve's playing on this track is utterly beautiful. Quote
B. Goren. Posted June 7, 2004 Report Posted June 7, 2004 This e-mail message has been received today from the Senators: Steve Lacy passed away on Friday, June 4th, 2004. He had been diagnosed with liver cancer last August, but maintained a vigorous teaching and performing schedule right up until last month. He slipped into a coma in the hospital on Wednesday and never regained consciousness. We will miss him so much. Vincent Lainé -- Senators: Steve Lacy's music modus operandi http://stevelacymusic.org/ email: senators@free.fr PS: the website will be unavailable for a while. The Senators records pages (http://senatorsrecords.free.fr/) remain open. Quote
John B Posted June 7, 2004 Report Posted June 7, 2004 I just heard that the next issue of Signal to noise will feature "Ed Hazell's fine article about the "art songs" he (Steve Lacy) composed with his longtime partner Irene Aebi, based upon what would turn out to be Mr. Lacy's last in-depth interview. It appears in the forthcoming summer issue of SIGNAL to NOISE, mailing this week." Quote
DrJ Posted June 7, 2004 Report Posted June 7, 2004 Man, some real giants have left us recently. He'll leave a huge void and a slew of great musical memories. Quote
JohnS Posted July 2, 2004 Report Posted July 2, 2004 I've only just heard the sad news today. He must have passed away just as I was going on holiday. I wish I could have seen him more often. Quote
Werf Posted July 2, 2004 Report Posted July 2, 2004 I just heard today, too, after logging onto the European Free Improv site to check out the July update. I haven't been on the computer much this month, and was on vacation too, but can't believe I missed the news all month. This is terrible, 69 is too damn young. Brando passed away today at 80 and I thought that was a bit young (guess 'cause my grandparents have lasted into their mid to late 90's). Thank you, Mr. Lacy for your wonderful musical legacy, RIP. Quote
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