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
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.
I was spoiled by Monk's music because it was so good, so complete.
The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk. It happened with anybody who is really original.
If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die.
Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.