"Director: Peter Bull"

• Steve Lacy - Lift the Bandstand | DVD | (04/12/2006) from £6.73   |  Saving you £2.26 (33.58%)   |  RRP £8.99

  This indispensable DVD offers one of the most interesting films ever made about a modern experimental jazz pioneering. The star is Steve Lacy the soprano sax innovator talking about his musical concepts and his major influences from Sidney Bechet to John Coltrane Cecil Taylor Gil Evans and Thelonious Monk who showed him the way to 'lift the bandstand'.The documentary film directed by Peter Bull presents clips of all these artists who underpin the human inspirations behind Lacy's processing of sly wit precise abstraction and mystical method. He's revealed as a sort of post-modern modernist whose music can sing it's laughing at itself crying.

• Steve Lacey - Master Of The Soprano Sax | DVD | (20/08/2007) from £17.71   |  Saving you £1.28 (7.23%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Anyone who plays soprano orientates himself on Steve Lacy "" Wayne Shorter once said. And it's known that Wayne was a disciple of John Coltrane who had popularized the soprano saxophone in jazz during the 1960s even though it was only his secondary instrument. Even the great Sidney Bechet considered the progenitor of all saxophonists (along with Hawkins) played the clarinet in addition to the saxophone. Master Of The Soprano Sax is an outstanding jazz documentary about the brillian