Jason Weiss

Steve Lacy

Conversations
Herausgeber: Weiss, Jason

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Collection of interviews with Steve Lacy, a jazz saxophonist who played with Thelonius Monk, Cecil Taylor, and Gil Evans.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780822338260
• ISBN-10: 0822338262
• Artikelnr.: 21867064

Autorenporträt

Jason Weiss is the author of The Lights of Home: A Century of Latin American Writers in Paris and the forthcoming novel Faces by the Wayside. He is the editor of Back in No Time: The Brion Gysin Reader.

Inhaltsangabe

4. Goodbye, New York (Garth W. Caylor, Jr., 1965) 24
5. Faithful Lacy (Philippe Carles, 1965) 33
6. Twenty-six New Jazzmen Put to the Question (1965) 41
7. Steve Lacy Speaks (Paul Gros-Claude, 1971) 43
8. Improvisation (Derek Bailey, 1974) 48
9. Evidence and Reflections (Alain-Rene Hardy and Philippe Quinsac, 1976)
52
10. On Play and Process, and Musiacal Insticnts (Raymond Gervais and Yves
Bouliane, 1976) 62
11. In the Spirit (Roberto Terlizzi, 1976) 78
12. The Spark, the Gap, the Leap ( Brian Case, 1979) 84
13. In Search of the Way (Jason Weiss, 1980) 97
14. Songs: Steve Lacy and Brion Gysin (Jason Weiss, 1981) 104
15. Unrecognized Giean? (Xavier Prevost, 1982) 109
16. Futurities (Isabelle Galloni d’Istria, 1984) 111
17. The Solitude of the Long-Distance Player (Gerard Rouy, 1987) 115
18. On Practicing, and Exploring the Instrument (Kirk Silsbee, 1988) 123
19. Art is Made to Trouble (Christian Gauffre, 1990) 133
20. Shop Talk (Mel Martin, 1990) 138
21. It’s Got to Be Alive (Ben Ratliff, 1991)
22. Regarding the Voice: Steve Lacy and Irene Aebi (Jason Weiss, 1993) 146
23. A Petite Fleur for S. B. (Philippe Carles, 1994) 156
24. Sculpture and Jazz (Alain Kirili, 1994) 158
25. One Shouldn’t Make Too Much Noise, There’s Enough Already (Franck
Medioni, 1995) 163
26. Living Lacy (Gerard Rouy, 1995) 166
27. Scratching the Seventies (Etienne Brunet, 1996) 167
28. Forget Paris (John Corbett, 1996) 185
29. In the Old Days (Lee Friedlander and Maria Friedlander, 1997) 193
30. The Glorious Thirty (Franck Bergerot and Alex Dutilh, 2000) 208
31. Farewell Paris (Gerard Rouy, 2002) 212
32. Invisible Jukebox (Christoph Cos, 2002) 217
33. Big Kisses from Boston (Franck Medioni, 2003) 226
34. The Art of the Song: Steve Lacy and Irene Aebi (Ed Hazell, 2004) 228
Part 2. Writings by Steve Lacy
1. MEV Notes (ca. 1968) 244
2. Roba (early 1970s) 248
3. Garden Variety (ca. 1974) 249
4. FMP: 10 Years Jubilee (ca. 1979) 250
5. What about Monk? (1980) 251
6. He Flew (1980) 253
7. In the Upper Air: Albert Ayler (1996 256
8. Shiro and I (1997) 257
9. Short Takes (1998) 258
10. Yoshizawa (1998) 260
11. Made in France (2000) 261
12. Song Sources (undated) 266
13. Residency Statement (2004) 267
Part 3. Song Scores
Dreams (1975) 272
Mind’s Heart (1982) 273
3 Haiku (1998) 274
Selected Discography 277
Credits 281
Index 283
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 3
Part 1. Interviews with Steve Lacy
1. Introducing Steve Lacy (1959) 13
2. My Favorite Thing (1961) 17
3. The Land of Monk (1963) 20