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Steve Lacy – Hooky – Solo in Montreal 1976
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Artist……………: Steve Lacy
Album…………….: Hooky – Solo in Montreal 1976
Genre…………….: Jazz
Source……………: NMR
Year……………..: 2000
Ripper……………: NMR
Codec…………….: LAME 3.99
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Quality…………..: Extreme, (avg. bitrate: 262kbps)
Channels………….: Joint Stereo / 44100 hz
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Covers……………: Front Back CD
Steve Lacy
<Hooky
(Emanem)
by Alan Jones
January 2001
It is relevant that Steve Lacy should have chosen to address Taoism during this 1976 Montreal concert: the year finds Lacy at ease and reflective. This was only to come after many years of working to revalidate the soprano saxophone as a solo instrument in jazz, at least apart from the Coltrane influence on the period. For all the variety of expression that thrived at the time, Lacy here shows us with authority the individuality and lyricism of his playing that would soon be built upon in a barrage of output for Werner Uehlinger’s Hat Hut label. If jazz has offered musicians a stage for which to express their souls’ intents, then Steve had found an outlet to express his affinity for the immutable Tao, or as Westerners recognize it, The Way.
Taoists believe that no single person or event has the mortal ability to disclose the essence of The Way. While there are many “ways”, the nature of “The Way” will never be fully understood by even those who recognize it. It is simply a metaphysically attainable intimation at the understanding of existence. If this is so, then so is it true that no person or study can ascribe definitive traits to jazz. The traits in jazz certainly are of their own creation and of their own unique moments in time, be it a political event, a cultural glitch, or death of an innovator, but the music’s truest nature will probably never be understood. Steve Lacy is one of the many who has been bold enough to attempt at a cognitively tangible clue to all things relative. His language is music.
One need look no further than the 4th poem from Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching to understand the essence of Lacy’s design:
The Way is a void,
Used but never filled:
An abyss it is,
Like an ancestor
From which all things come…
So all music is a void, used, added to, but of course never filled. Lacy’s contributions to aesthetics are more than just a medium by which we can pop our fingers or raise a glass. Whether it is pondering the sum and substance of Thelonious Monk or improvising freely for the scalar sake of the affair, his music can and will allow us to transcend the mundane and the meaningless. The music needs no more than be recognized as an effort from the heart.
The music from Hooky is reflective of Steve’s old School Days stompings, but steps away from his penchant for Monk interpretations. Neither is the title just a simple play on a personal era. Listening to selections like “The Crust” and “Pearl Street” will reveal Lacy’s ability to craft workable and surprising hooksóthose areas in composition that capture the audience with their wit and compulsive nature. The playing is incredibly sober; only a musician with astounding technical skill could swirl his way around a theme the way Lacy does, and still construct an appropriate transition back into the melody. His sense of humor shines in “The New Duck”, where the soprano reaches the thickest depths of its register to animate the title of the tune, an inside tribute to Ben Webster. “Tao”, his suite composed for six elements of Lao Tzu’s greater principle, is performed here uninterrupted and is championed by its author over two earlier recorded versions. The suite weaves in and out of its own related components and is best enjoyed in its entirety. An end is brought to the final set by “Revolutionary Suicide”, a moody encore that attempts to make a conclusive statement as well as sign off from a ballsy endeavor.
The fact that Steve Lacy continues to submit compelling music to his listeners is testimony that he had it right long ago. Here Emanem has released Hooky in full 70+ minute lengthóminus one false startófor the first time since it was originally recorded. The music itself far outweighs the minor technical shortcomings seldom heard in the recording. Such is the nature of dusting off the master tapes.
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Tracklisting
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1. Steve Lacy – The Crust [05:09]
2. Steve Lacy – Crops [06:43]
3. Steve Lacy – The New Duck [07:36]
4. Steve Lacy – Pearl Street [07:27]
5. Steve Lacy – Hooky [08:29]
6. Steve Lacy – No Baby [04:14]
7. Steve Lacy – Tao : Existence [07:07]
8. Steve Lacy – Tao : The Way [03:47]
9. Steve Lacy – Tao : Bone [05:14]
10. Steve Lacy – Tao : Name [07:30]
11. Steve Lacy – Tao : The Breath [05:49]
12. Steve Lacy – Tao : Life on its Way [03:29]
13. Steve Lacy – Revolutionary Suicide [05:58]
Playing Time………: 01:18:39
Total Size………..: 149.70 MB
NFO generated on…..: 27/04/2013 03:12:16
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