is steve lacy dead

[Guest ariceffron]

The highlight was Joe Lovano playing a moving soprano saxophone in tribute to Steve Lacy, who posthumously won the straight-sax honors.

WTH

WTH=what the hell???? i didnt hear about this on here. is steve lacy dead?>

[rockefeller center]

http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...3&hl=steve+lacy

[Guest ariceffron]

that is interesting how he moved back to the US to continue his teaching right before he died

[Pete C]

that is interesting how he moved back to the US to continue his teaching right before he died

What's so interesting about that?

[.:.impossible]

I thought it was interesting as well, for what its worth, but I had no idea he was fighting a terminal illness. It makes sense in that context, that he would want to come home I suppose.

[Pete C]

I thought it was interesting as well, for what its worth, but I had no idea he was fighting a terminal illness. It makes sense in that context, that he would want to come home I suppose.

No, Lacy had no idea he was ill when he made the decision to come back. He found out last August, and I think he started at NEC the prior year.

[robviti]

what is interesting is that anyone would take something that aric says at face value.

[.:.impossible]

What made Steve Lacy decide to come back to the States I wonder? Pete C, do you know?

[brownie]

What made Steve Lacy decide to come back to the States I wonder? Pete C, do you know?

Steve Lacy was reported to be upset about problems with the French tax authorities and decided to return to the USA in 2002.

[Pete C]

I think Brownie gave the most pressing reason, but in an interview he also claimed that the jazz scene in France had become moribund, and that he had become musically excited by both Danilo Perez & Dave Douglas.

I was recently talking to another expat musician who has been living in Holland for years; he also expressed a disappointment with the current scene over there and a desire to return to the states.

Now from my listener's perspective there's lots of interesting stuff going in Europe, but of course I have no sense of the day to day realities.

At any rate, I don't think it's uncommon to yearn for home after years abroad.

Edited July 11, 2004 by Pete C

[Ron Thorne]

It's certainly not unusual to want to be "close to home".

I'm not any more surprised that Steve Lacy wanted to be "close to home" than did Jim Pepper, for instance. So many superb jazz artists were never truly at "home" in their country of birth, or could eek out a living. Damn shame.

Edited July 14, 2004 by Ron Thorne