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| Informed by fascinating visual resources, a structure that clarifies as it engrosses, and the critical acumen of the remarkably articulate subject himself, Steve Lacy's pivotal position in modern jazz history has never shone more clearly than it does in this brilliant film. A matrix of creative relationships surfaces -- Lacy the soprano sax innovator, re: Sidney Bechet, re: John Coltrane; Lacy the whole artist, re: Cecil Taylor, Gil Evans and Thelonious Monk, who showed him the way to 'lift the bandstand.' Performance clips of all these artists (except Taylor) delineate 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 present music can sing while it's laughing at itself crying. In performance, Irene Aebl's vocals and Lacy's sextet vitalize the sardonic 'Gay Paree Bop' and the startling, beautiful 'Prospectus,' which sounds like Lacy's Slavic soul hung out on a wing, soaring. Lacy shows how jazz continually becomes world music. You sense that Lacy's way 'always know,' as Monk would say. That makes for a video that gives more and more, a real investment.
Sections:
Evidence" (Monk)
"Prospectus" (Lacy)
About Sidney Bechet
About Cecil Taylor
About Gil Evans
About Thelonious Monk
About John Coltrane
"Gay Paree Bop" (Lacy-Gysin)
DVD (NTSC/PAL - ALL REGION)
50 Min. Catalog Number: 843602869046 |
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ARTISTS
Steve Lacy, Irene Aebi, Steve Potts, Bobby Few, Jean-Jacques Avenel, Oliver Johnson |
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