Steve Lacy

Lacy is unique in jazz for having apprenticed in Dixieland music with masters such as Henry "Red" Allen[?], George "Pops" Foster[?] and Zutty Singleton[?] and then with Kansas City jazz players like Buck Clayton[?], Dicky Wells[?], and Jimmy Rushing before jumping into the heart of the avant garde with Cecil Taylor, Thelonious Monk, and Gil Evans[?].

Lacy established his reputation as a jazz musician in Paris and is thus largely unrecognised in his home country. He subsequently developed into a composer in his own right.

He worked and collaborated extensively with the cut-up poet and writer Brion Gysin.

External Links

• "On the Brink" (http://www.newalbion.com/artists/lacys/), Steve Lacy talks about his musical experiences.