Remains (Steve Lacy album)

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Remains
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Studio album by
Steve Lacy
Released1992
RecordedApril 29–30, 1991
Studio Radio DRS, Zurich, Switzerland
Genre Jazz
Length64:20
Label hat ART
hat ART CD 6102
Producer Pia Uehlinger, Werner X. Uehlinger
Steve Lacy chronology
Itinerary
(1991)		Remains
(1992)		 Live at Sweet Basil
(1992)

Remains is a solo album by soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy, which was recorded in Switzerland in 1991 and first released on the hat ART label the following year. [1] [2] [3]

Contents

Music and reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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The Penguin Guide to Jazz Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [5]

The first six tracks form a suite that was inspired by the Tao Te Ching . [5] The title track is a dance piece commissioned from Lacy, who described it as "a danse macabre of a skeleton in a tomb". [6] The album also contains a reworking of Lacy's "The Way" that would surprise listeners with how it was changed from earlier performances, he suggested. [6]

The Penguin Guide to Jazz praised the "close-up, attentive recording [that] catches every gritty little resonance and breath noise" and described the album as "Lacy's most accomplished solo performance for some time". [5] The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow stated "On this solo soprano saxophone CD, the remarkable Steve Lacy performs his six-song, half-hour "Time of Tao-Cycle," plus three other originals ... The improvising is thoughtful, adventurous, and sometimes wandering, but rarely aimless. For specialized tastes". [4]

Track listing

All compositions by Steve Lacy except where noted

  1. "Existence" – 5:25
  2. "The Way" – 6:46
  3. "Bone" – 4:14
  4. "Name" – 6:34
  5. "The Breath" – 4:57
  6. "Life on Its Way" – 2:49
  7. "Pearl Street" – 5:15
  8. "Remains" – 18:05
  9. "Afterglow" – 6:11
  10. "Epistrophy" (Thelonious Monk, Kenny Clarke) – 3:59

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Jazzlists: Steve Lacy discography accessed July 13, 2018
  2. ↑ Steve Lacy discography accessed July 13, 2018
  3. ↑ Jazzlists: hatART discography: CDs: 6100 to 6199 accessed July 13, 2018
  4. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Steve Lacy: Remains – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved July 13, 2018.
  5. 1 2 3 Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (1994). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, LP & Cassette (2nd ed.). Penguin. p. 773. ISBN   978-0-14-024557-8.
  6. 1 2 Shoemaker, Bill (May 1992). "Steve Lacy's Relentless Intensity". DownBeat . Vol. 59, no. 5. p. 17.
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