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. [show more]
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