Moon (Steve Lacy album)

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Moon
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Released1969
RecordedSeptember 23, 1969
Genre Jazz
Length28:49
Label BYG Actuel
Steve Lacy chronology
Roba
(1969)
Moon
(1969)
Epistrophy
(1969)

Moon is the ninth album by soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy and was recorded in Rome in 1969 and originally released on the BYG Actuel label featuring five compositions by Lacy performed by Lacy, Italo Toni, Claudo Volonte, Irene Aebi, Marcello Melis and Jacques Thollot. [1] [2]

Steve Lacy (saxophonist) American saxophonist; jazz composer

Steve Lacy, born Steven Norman Lackritz in New York City, was an American 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 of little more than a single questioning phrase, repeated several times.

Irene Aebi is a Swiss singer, violinist and cellist. She is noted for her work with jazz saxophonist Steve Lacy, her husband, from the 1960s to his death in 2004.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 3 stars stating "Lacy had not yet fully developed his more relaxed, scalar approach to improvising, but his playing is certainly quite distinctive and generally pretty lyrical during performances of five Lacy originals.". [3]

Professional ratings
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Track listing

  1. "Hit" - 4:58
  2. "Note" - 4:27
  3. "Moon" - 7:30
  4. "Laugh" - 3:47
  5. "The Breath" - 8:07
All compositions by Steve Lacy
  • Recorded in Rome, Italy on September, 1969

Personnel

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References

  1. Jazzlists: Steve Lacy discography accessed July 9, 2018
  2. Steve Lacy discography accessed July 9, 2018
  3. 1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed March 12, 2012