More music like Lacy/Rudd School Days

[Stevie Mclean]

I've been listening to this album a lot recently, especially since I have been on a bit of a Lacy kick. I also really enjoy Evidence with Don Cherry for similar reasons. 

what really draws me to these albums is the collective improvisation over a repeating melodic idea without much attention payed to traditional harmony (I enjoy the piano-less trio and quartet setting). I understand that this is the basis of a lot of "free jazz" but I feel like these albums are still relatively easy to listen to and the vocabulary that they are using is not too abstract.

I think the fact that they are playing monk tunes also contributes a lot to the sound as it seems like this attention to melodic and rhythmic structure rather than harmonic structure is a natural extension of how monk writes and plays.

I am very interested in finding more music that has these qualities. I am open to more Lacy but I am also interested in finding similar sounding artists and groups playing more than just monk.

[Joe]

Do you know Don Cherry's COMPLETE COMMUNION? I think that fits this bill. 

I'd also recommend THE STRAIGHT HORN OF STEVE LACY on Candid, which features Charles Davis on baritone. The Lacy - Charles Tyler date on Silkheart — ONE FELL SWOOP —  is not dissimilar. 

Finally, Frank Lowe's EXOTIC HEARTBREAK. Not a piano-less band, but the piano duties are handled (and then some) by Amina Claudine Myers. 

[Steve Reynolds]

Denis Charles 

Captain of the Deep

with the *great* Jemeel Moondoc on alto saxophone 

Nathan Breedlove on trumpet with the performance of a lifetime

On eremite records 

[jlhoots]

34 minutes ago, Steve Reynolds said:

Denis Charles 

Captain of the Deep

with the *great* Jemeel Moondoc on alto saxophone 

Nathan Breedlove on trumpet with the performance of a lifetime

On eremite records 

Superb!!