Steve Lacy
Steve Lacy
Steve Lacy, born Steven Norman Lackritz in New York City, was a jazz saxophonist and composer recognized as one of the important players of soprano saxophone. Coming to prominence in the 1950s as a progressive Dixieland musician, Lacy went on to a long and prolific career. He worked extensively in experimental jazz and to a lesser extent in free improvisation, but Lacy's music was typically melodic and tightly-structured. Lacy also became a highly distinctive composer, with compositions often built out...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth23 July 1934
CountryUnited States of America
I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.
I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.
When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.
Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.
The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.
It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing.
Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.