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-Rene Hardy, Ed Hazell, Alain Kirili, Mel Martin,
Franck Medioni, Xavier Prevost, Philippe Quinsac, Ben Ratliff,
Gerard Rouy, Kirk Silsbee, Roberto Terlizzi, Jason Weiss
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