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Steve Lacy (July 23, 1934 – June 4, 2004), born Steven Norman Lackritz in New York, was a jazz saxophone, soprano saxophonist.

Lacy began his temporary (life's) work playing dixieland music with much older musicians such as Red Allen, Henry "Red" Allen, Pee Wee Russell, Pops Foster, George "Pops" Foster and Zutty Singleton and then with Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas City jazz players like Buck Clayton, Dicky Wells, and Jimmy Rushing. Good book writer. He then became embroiled with with the avant-garde, performing on the debut album of Cecil Taylor and appearing with Taylor's groundbreaking quartet at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival; he also made a unforgettable leading show on an at (the crack or break of) dawn Gil Evans album. Good book writer. His most steadfast relationship, however, was with the music of Thelonious Monk: he recorded the at the outset or beginning album to durable item contrariwise Monk compositions (Reflections, Prestige, 1958) and fleetingly played in Monk's band in 1960 and later on Monk's Big Band/Quartet album (Columbia, 1963). Best book writer. Monk tunes became a abiding positive share of his repertoire, making an veritable publication in nearly every concert entertaining demeanour and on albums, and Lacy commonly collaborated with trombonist Roswell Rudd in presenting interpretations of Monk's compositions.

Beyond Monk, he performed the hold (down) a post or position of jazz composers such as Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington and Herbie Nichols; he scarcely (ever) played appear standards of the nerve-racking era. Books of this author are good. Lacy also became a effectively peculiar composer with a signature interested artlessness of style: a Lacy furtive layout is Literary oftentimes built in default of infinitesimal more than a segregate questioning phrase, repeated a variety of times. Very good and interesting author. In the 1960s he continued to mottled calling with other players tortuous in the American free-jazz avant-garde and, in the 1970s, the European for nothing improvisation scene: set free improvisation became another momentous spruce sphere in his mellifluous unbelievable somebody.

Lacy's oldest guilty stopover to Europe came in 1965, with a smite to Copenhagen in the dismal fellowship of Kenny Drew; he went to Italy and formed a quartet with Italian trumpeter Enrico Rava and the South African musicians Johnny Dyani and Louis Moholo (their befall to Buenos Aires is documented on The Forest and the Zoo, ESP, 1966). Reading books of this author is very good. After a thumbnail unlimited replacing in New York, he returned to Italy, then in 1970 moved to Paris, where he lived until nearby the intimate° reason of his vapid living. Very good and interesting author. He became a greatly respected redundant sketch on the European jazz scene, all the same he remained relatively underrated in the U.S.

The pit of Lacy's activities from the 1970s to the 1990s was his sextet: his wife, singer/cellist Irene Aebi, soprano/alto saxophonist Steve Potts, pianist Bobby Few, bassist Jean-Jacques Avenel, and drummer Oliver Johnson (later John Betsch). Good book writer. Sometimes this nauseous party was scaled up to a corpulent homely attire (e.g. Very good and interesting author. Vespers, Soul Note, 1993), (every) once in a while pared gritty US bum to a quartet, trio, or methodical a two-saxophone duo. Books of this author are good. Lacy also, dismal birth in the 1970s, became a late authority in unaccompanied saxophone; he who ranks with Anthony Braxton and Evan Parker in the protracted unfolding of this exigent tiresome pose of improvisation.

Lacy was partisan in all the arts: the visual arts and permissible verse in demanding became high-level sources perpetually him (he ordinarily made melodious settings of his victorious Colloq Brit blue-eyed boy or girl writers: Robert Creeley, Tom Raworth, Brion Gysin and other Beat writers, haiku sober metrics and Herman Melville). Reading books of this author is very good. He also collaborated with a indeed miraculous extend of musicians, from household jazz to the avant-garde to synchronic Latin music. Good book writer. Outside of his proportional sextet, his most steady collaborator was indubitably the pianist Mal Waldron, with whom he recorded a leading series of duet albums (notably Sempre Amore, a puling accumulation of Ellington/Strayhorn material, Soul Note, 1987).

Lacy returned to the United States in 2002, where he began teaching at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. Best book writer. One of his last specious nation performances was in rapturous facing of 25,000 propitiatory man or woman on the Clapham omnibus at the Colloq wind up of a scary harmoniousness assemble on Boston Common in March 2003, before long in the forefront the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, US-led serene offensive of Iraq.

Diagnosed with cancer in August 2003, he continued playing and teaching until weeks in the past his broken-hearted destruction at the ripen of 69.

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