Steve Lacy (jazz saxophonist and composer 1934–2004)

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member of:	Steve Lacy Seven Cecil Taylor Quartet (soprano saxophone)
original eponymous member of:	Steve Lacy + 6 (seven-person band) Steve Lacy 6 (six-person band) Steve Lacy Double Sextet Steve Lacy Five Steve Lacy Two Steve Lacy+16
original member of:	Steve Lacy Octet (saxophone) The Steve Lacy Quartet (soprano saxophone)
married:	Irene Aebi

part of:	Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (from 2002-02-20 to present) (order: 213)

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Wikidata:	Q504641 [info]
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Appearances

Date	Title	Attributes	Artist	Length
	arranged
	Pot-Pourri Solo		Steve Lacy & Duke Ellington	?:??
	Roma		Steve Lacy	4:39
	The Mooche		Steve Lacy & Duke Ellington	?:??
	instruments
1956-09-14	Charge ’em Blues	soprano saxophone	Cecil Taylor Quartet	11:07
1956-09-14	Song	soprano saxophone	Cecil Taylor Quartet	5:19
1957-07-06	Johnny Come Lately	soprano saxophone	The Cecil Taylor Quartet	7:10
1957-07-06	Nona’s Blues	soprano saxophone	The Cecil Taylor Quartet	7:41
1957-07-06	Tune 2	soprano saxophone	The Cecil Taylor Quartet	10:34
1957-09-06	Remember	saxophone	Gil Evans	4:34
1957-09-27	Ella Speed	saxophone	Gil Evans	5:51
1957-09-27	If You Could See Me Now	saxophone	Gil Evans	4:19
1957-09-27	Nobody's Heart	saxophone	Gil Evans	4:26
1957-10-10	Big Stuff	saxophone	Gil Evans	4:49
1957-10-10	Jambangle	saxophone	Gil Evans	4:58
1957-10-10	Just One of Those Things	saxophone	Gil Evans	4:26
1957-11-01	Alone Together	soprano saxophone	Steve Lacy	6:47
1957-11-01	Day Dream	soprano saxophone	Steve Lacy	4:25
1957-11-01	Easy to Love	soprano saxophone	Steve Lacy	8:24
1957-11-01	Little Girl Your Daddy Is Calling You	soprano saxophone	Steve Lacy	4:34
1957-11-01	Rockin' in Rhythm	soprano saxophone	Steve Lacy	4:08
1957-11-01	Work	soprano saxophone	Steve Lacy	5:27
1958-10-17	Ask Me Now	soprano saxophone	Steve Lacy	4:57
1958-10-17	Bye-Ya	soprano saxophone	Steve Lacy	4:41
1958-10-17	Four in One	soprano saxophone	Steve Lacy	6:09
1958-10-17	Hornin' In	soprano saxophone	Steve Lacy	5:19
1958-10-17	Let's Call This	soprano saxophone	Steve Lacy	7:18
1958-10-17	Reflections	soprano saxophone	Steve Lacy	4:10
1958-10-17	Skippy	soprano saxophone	Steve Lacy	4:21
1959-02-05	Ballad of the Sad Young Men	saxophone	Gil Evans	4:00
1959-02-05	Chant of the Weed	saxophone	Gil Evans	4:25
1959-02-05	Joy Spring	saxophone	Gil Evans	2:49
1959-02-05	La Nevada (Theme)	saxophone	Gil Evans	6:15
1959	Davenport Blues	saxophone	Gil Evans	4:25
1959	Django	saxophone	Gil Evans	8:05
1959	Straight No Chaser	saxophone	Gil Evans	6:19
1960-03-03	Evidence (live, 1960-08-27: Connie Mack Stadium, Philadelphia, PA, USA)	soprano saxophone	Thelonious Monk with Steve Lacy	6:19
1960-03-03	Rhythm a Ning Into Closing Announcement by Louis Armstrong (live, 1960-08-27: Connie Mack Stadium, Philadelphia, PA, USA)	soprano saxophone	Thelonious Monk with Steve Lacy	4:39
1960-03-03	Straight, No Chaser (live, 1960-08-27: Connie Mack Stadium, Philadelphia, PA, USA)	soprano saxophone	Thelonious Monk with Steve Lacy	7:53
1960-11-19	Air	soprano saxophone	Steve Lacy	6:40
1960-11-19	Criss Cross	soprano saxophone	Steve Lacy	5:46
1960-11-19	Donna Lee	soprano saxophone	Steve Lacy	7:55
1960-11-19	Introspection	soprano saxophone	Steve Lacy	5:34
1960-11-19	Louise	soprano saxophone	Steve Lacy	5:27
1960-11-19	Played Twice	soprano saxophone	Steve Lacy	5:54
1961-01-09 – 1961-01-10	I Forgot (take 1)	soprano saxophone	Cecil Taylor	8:28
1961-01-09 – 1961-01-10	Jumpin' Punkins (take 4)	soprano saxophone	Cecil Taylor	8:20
1961-01-09 – 1961-01-10	Jumpin' Punkins (take 5)	soprano saxophone	Cecil Taylor	8:20
1961-01-09 – 1961-01-10	Things Ain't What They Used to Be	soprano saxophone	Cecil Taylor, Cecil Taylor	9:50
1961-11-01	Evidence	soprano saxophone	Steve Lacy	5:03
1961-11-01	Let’s Cool One	soprano saxophone	Steve Lacy	6:46
1961-11-01	San Francisco Holiday	soprano saxophone	Steve Lacy	4:32
1961-11-01	Something to Live For	soprano saxophone	Steve Lacy	5:51
1961-11-01	The Mystery Song	soprano saxophone	Steve Lacy	5:50
1961-11-01	Who Knows	soprano saxophone	Steve Lacy	5:26
1963-12-30	Bye‐Ya (live, 1963-12-30: Philharmonic Hall, New York, NY, USA)	soprano saxophone	Thelonious Monk	11:00
1963-12-30	Epistrophy	soprano saxophone	Thelonious Monk Big Band	2:00
1963-12-30	Epistrophy (live, 1963-12-30: Philharmonic Hall, New York, NY, USA)	soprano saxophone	Thelonious Monk	2:22
1963-12-30	Epistrophy (live, 1963-12-30: Philharmonic Hall, New York, NY, USA)	soprano saxophone	Thelonious Monk	2:01
1963-12-30	Epistrophy	soprano saxophone	Thelonious Monk	2:28
1963-12-30	Evidence (live, 1963-12-30: Philharmonic Hall, New York, NY, USA)	soprano saxophone	Thelonious Monk	13:55
1963-12-30	Evidence	soprano saxophone	Thelonious Monk Big Band	12:38
1963-12-30	Four in One	soprano saxophone	Thelonious Monk Big Band	11:03
1963-12-30	Four in One (live, 1963-12-30: Philharmonic Hall, New York, NY, USA)	soprano saxophone	Thelonious Monk	14:43
1963-12-30	I Mean You	soprano saxophone	Thelonious Monk Big Band	12:42
1963-12-30	I Mean You (live, 1963-12-30: Philharmonic Hall, New York, NY, USA)	soprano saxophone	Thelonious Monk	12:49
1963-12-30	Light Blue (live, 1963-12-30: Philharmonic Hall, New York, NY, USA)	soprano saxophone	Thelonious Monk	12:51
1963-12-30	Oska T.	soprano saxophone	Thelonious Monk Big Band	9:20
1963-12-30	Oska T. (live, 1963-12-30: Philharmonic Hall, New York, NY, USA)	soprano saxophone	Thelonious Monk	13:19
1963	Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are (Bolivar Blues)	soprano saxophone	Steve Lacy, Roswell Rudd, Henry Grimes, Dennis Charles	10:25
1963	Brilliant Corners	soprano saxophone	Steve Lacy, Roswell Rudd, Henry Grimes, Dennis Charles	9:45
1963	Bye-Ya	soprano saxophone	Steve Lacy, Roswell Rudd, Henry Grimes, Dennis Charles	9:00
1963	Monk's Dream	soprano saxophone	Steve Lacy, Roswell Rudd, Henry Grimes, Dennis Charles	7:15
1963	Monk's Mood	soprano saxophone	Steve Lacy, Roswell Rudd, Henry Grimes, Dennis Charles	8:10
1963	Pannonica	soprano saxophone	Steve Lacy, Roswell Rudd, Henry Grimes, Dennis Charles	3:25
1963	Skippy	soprano saxophone	Steve Lacy, Roswell Rudd, Henry Grimes, Dennis Charles	6:15
1964-12-15	Lotus Land	soprano saxophone	Kenny Burrell	9:40
1965-12-04	Last Night When We Were Young	soprano saxophone	Kenny Burrell	4:37
1966-01-11	Closer	soprano saxophone	Carla Bley	5:30
1966-01-11	Communications No. 7	soprano saxophone	Carla Bley	9:34
1966-01-11	Doctor	soprano saxophone	Carla Bley	7:45
1966-01-11	J.S.	soprano saxophone	Carla Bley	3:35
1966-01-11	Oni Puladi	soprano saxophone	Carla Bley	5:25
1966-01-11	Walking Batteriewoman	soprano saxophone	Carla Bley	6:18
1966-02-04	Black Elk	soprano saxophone	The Steve Lacy Quartet	10:08
1966-02-04	Fork New York	soprano saxophone	The Steve Lacy Quartet	14:51
1966-02-04	Helmy	soprano saxophone	The Steve Lacy Quartet	2:04
1966-02-04	Living T Blues	soprano saxophone	The Steve Lacy Quartet	3:35
1966-02-04	Sortie	soprano saxophone	The Steve Lacy Quartet	10:40
1966-10-08	Forest	soprano saxophone	Steve Lacy	20:56
1966-10-08	Zoo	soprano saxophone	Steve Lacy	20:57
1967-07	Events Leading To The End, Part One: Death Rolls-Ancestors	soprano saxophone	Gary Burton	1:38
1967-07	Events Leading To The End, Part One: Interlude: Lament	soprano saxophone	Gary Burton	4:30
1967-07	Events Leading To The End, Part One: Morning-Part One	soprano saxophone	Gary Burton	1:46
1967-07	Events Leading To The End, Part Three: Morning-Part Two	soprano saxophone	Gary Burton	1:19
1967-07	Events Leading To The End, Part Three: Some Dirge-Hour Of The Wolf	soprano saxophone	Gary Burton	7:50
1967-07	Events Leading To The End, Part Three: The New Funeral March	soprano saxophone	Gary Burton	2:43
1967-07	Events Leading To The End, Part Two: Silent Spring	soprano saxophone	Gary Burton	7:59
1967-07	Fanfare; Mother of the Dead Man	soprano saxophone	Gary Burton	2:54
1967-07	The New National Anthem; The Survivors	soprano saxophone	Gary Burton	6:35
1967-07	The Opening; Interlude: Shovels; The Survivors; Grave Train	soprano saxophone	Gary Burton	6:40
1967-11-20 – 1967-11-21	The New National Anthem (from A Genuine Tong Funeral)	soprano saxophone	Gary Burton	6:38
1968-01 – 1968-06	Communications #8	soprano saxophone	The Jazz Composer's Orchestra	13:52
1968-01 – 1968-06	Communications #9	soprano saxophone	The Jazz Composer's Orchestra	8:08
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	mixed
	As Usual		Steve Lacy Sextet	12:12
	Friday the 13th		Steve Lacy Quartet, Charles Tyler	4:50
	Gay Paree Bop		Steve Lacy Sextet	9:00
	Keepsake		Steve Lacy Sextet	10:22
	Keepsake		Steve Lacy Quartet, Charles Tyler	10:25
	Napping		Steve Lacy Sextet	8:57
	Napping (take 2)		Steve Lacy Sextet	9:20
	Ode to Lady Day		Steve Lacy Quartet, Charles Tyler	7:30
	One Fell Swoop		Steve Lacy Quartet, Charles Tyler	7:52
	The Adventures Of		Steve Lacy Quartet, Charles Tyler	7:12
	The Gleam		Steve Lacy Sextet	7:00
	Wickets		Steve Lacy Quartet, Charles Tyler	9:50
	produced
	A Bright Pearl		Steve Lacy & Roswell Rudd	5:56
	Art		Steve Lacy, Ulrich Gumpert	11:53
	As Usual		Steve Lacy Sextet	12:12
	Blues for Aida		Steve Lacy, Marilyn Crispell	7:50
	Cloudy		Steve Lacy	5:37
	Coastline		Steve Lacy	7:08
	Deadline		Steve Lacy	7:52
	Esteem		Steve Lacy Quintet	10:15
	Evidence		Steve Lacy, Misha Mengelberg	6:22
	Follies		Steve Lacy Quintet	13:10
	Friday the 13th		Steve Lacy Quartet, Charles Tyler	4:50
	Gay Paree Bop		Steve Lacy Sextet	9:00
	Gloompot		Steve Lacy	4:08
	Grey Blue		Steve Lacy & Roswell Rudd	10:07
	J. J.'s Jam		Steve Lacy	6:53
	Jewgitive		Steve Lacy	4:46
	Keepsake		Steve Lacy Quartet, Charles Tyler	10:25
	Keepsake		Steve Lacy Sextet	10:22
	Koko		Steve Lacy & Roswell Rudd	5:12
	Monk's Dream		Steve Lacy & Roswell Rudd	7:37
	Moon		Steve Lacy	6:02
	Morning Joy		Steve Lacy	5:07
	Napping		Steve Lacy Sextet	8:57
	Napping (take 2)		Steve Lacy Sextet	9:20
	Naufrage		Steve Lacy	7:11
	No Baby		Steve Lacy	4:25
	Number One		Steve Lacy	9:01
	Ode to Lady Day		Steve Lacy Quartet, Charles Tyler	7:30
	Off Minor		Steve Lacy, Misha Mengelberg	7:01
	On Vous Demande		Steve Lacy	3:47
	One Fell Swoop		Steve Lacy Quartet, Charles Tyler	7:52
	Pannonica		Steve Lacy & Roswell Rudd	9:26
	Prayer		Steve Lacy	9:21
	Prelude and Anthem		Steve Lacy	15:48
	Ruby My Dear		Steve Lacy, Misha Mengelberg	9:53
	Sands 1 Stand		Steve Lacy	6:47
	Sands 2 Jump		Steve Lacy	5:15
	Sands 3 Fall		Steve Lacy	5:40
	Song		Steve Lacy	7:12
	Stabs		Steve Lacy	7:35
	The Adventures Of		Steve Lacy Quartet, Charles Tyler	7:12
	The Bath		Steve Lacy & Roswell Rudd	11:42
	The Crust		Steve Lacy Quintet	13:28
	The Crust		Steve Lacy, Marilyn Crispell	6:17
	The Door		Steve Lacy & Roswell Rudd	7:09
	The Duck		Steve Lacy	8:25
	The Dumps		Steve Lacy	4:18
	The Gleam		Steve Lacy Sextet	7:00
	The Mantle		Steve Lacy	9:22
	The Rent		Steve Lacy & Roswell Rudd	10:46
	The Rent		Steve Lacy	7:17
	The Throes		Steve Lacy Quintet	12:04
	The Wane		Steve Lacy, Vladimir Miller	7:35
	Traces		Steve Lacy & Roswell Rudd	8:03
	Twenty One		Steve Lacy, Fred Van Hove	20:22
	Who Needs It?		Steve Lacy	2:49
	Wickets		Steve Lacy Quartet, Charles Tyler	9:50
	vocals
1981-01-28 – 1981-01-29	Blue Baboon		Steve Lacy & Brion Gysin	4:55
1995-06-08	Introduction by Steve Lacy	spoken vocals	Steve Lacy	0:22
1995-06-08	Steve Lacy Speak	spoken vocals	Steve Lacy	0:51
1995-06-08	Steve Lacy Speaks	spoken vocals	Steve Lacy	0:44
1995-06-08	Steve Lacy Speaks	spoken vocals	Steve Lacy	0:26
1995-06-08	Steve Lacy Speaks	spoken vocals	Steve Lacy	0:31
1995-06-08	Steve Lacy Speaks	spoken vocals	Steve Lacy	0:16
	One More Time 3	spoken vocals	Steve Lacy / Joëlle Léandre	10:10
	Phone Message	spoken vocals	Steve Lacy / Joëlle Léandre	1:00
	Prospectus		Steve Lacy	5:01
	Saxovision		Steve Lacy	4:08
	design
	Saxophone Special		Steve Lacy, Evan Parker, Steve Potts, Trevor Watts, Derek Bailey, Michel Waisvisz
	instruments
1971-09-09 – 1971-09-10	Lapis	tape	Steve Lacy
1971-09-09 – 1971-09-10	Lapis	percussion	Steve Lacy
1975-06-24	Distant Voices	timpani	Steve Lacy, Yuji Takahashi & Takehisa Kosugi
1987-05-20 – 1987-05-22	Momentum	tambourine	Steve Lacy
	Ballets	bell	Steve Lacy
	Ballets	gong [foot]	Steve Lacy
	Clangs	synthesizer [pocket synthesizer]	Steve Lacy – Andrea Centazzo
	Mauresaca	guest and soprano saxophone	Richard Calleja, Jazz Time Big Band, Steve Lacy, Christian Salut
	Music Makers	soprano saxophone	Helen Merrill, Gordon Beck, Stéphane Grappelli & Steve Lacy
	Sansa	saxophone	SIG
	Scraps	bell	Steve Lacy Sextet
	Stamps	whistle	Steve Lacy
	liner notes
	Hooky		Steve Lacy
	Paris Blues		Gil Evans / Steve Lacy
	Remains		Steve Lacy
	Solo - Théâtre Du Chêne Noir		Steve Lacy
	Solo at Mandara		Steve Lacy
	Spirit of Mingus		Steve Lacy, Eric Watson
	Stalks		Steve Lacy
	Straws		Steve Lacy
	vocals
	Ballets		Steve Lacy
	tribute albums
	Evan Parker With Birds		Evan Parker
	composed
	3 Points
	A - We Will Never Have Any Peace - The Present Is Perpetual
	A Bright Pearl
	A Complicate Scene
	A Ring of Bone
	a) Chips B) Moon C) Dreams
	Abandoned 1
	Abandoned 2
	Absence
	Across
	Actuality
	Afterglow
	Agenda
	Art
	As Usual
	Avis
	Axieme (Steve Lacy – Axieme Vol. 1 LP Side B)
	Axieme (Steve Lacy – Axieme Vol. 1 LP Side A)
	B - Do Not Imitate What You Wish to Create
	Backslash
	Beeline
	Blinks
	Blue Baboon
	Blue Jay
	Blue Wee
	Blues
	Blues for Aida
	Blush
	Bone
	Bookioni
	Bound
	Breeze
	Broad Brush
	Broils
	Bud's Brother
	Bud's Brother II
	C - I Want to Be in Tune With Nature Rather Than Copy It
	Capers
	Cette Fois
	Chops
	Clichés
	Clinkers
	Cloudy
	Coastline
	Communiqué
	Como è trieste Venezia
	Coots
	Crops
	D - I Don't Do as I'd Like, I Do as I Can
	Dead Line
	Deadline
	Die Gazelle zittert
	Distant Voices
	DO NOT JUDGE ME LIGHTLY
	DO NOT JUDGE ME LIGHTLY #2
	Dom
	Dome
	Door
	Dreams
	Duck
	Duckles
	Dummy
	Dutch Masters
	E - Art Is Made to Trouble, Science Reassures
	Esteem
	Existence
	F - The Only Thing Valuable in Art, Is What Cannot Be Explained
	Feline
	FIRST AND LAST PAIN
	Flakes
	Flaps (To Pee Wee Russel)
	Flim-Flam
	Flops (To Charles Chaplin)
	Flying Off
	Follies
	Forest
	Fox II / Rabbit / Shambles
	Free Point
	Fruits
	Full Scale
	G - One Must Achieve a Certain Temperature That Makes Things Malleable
	Gay Paree Bop
	Glanced
	Gloompot
	Gospel
	Grass
	Grey Blue
	Gusts
	H - Limited Means Lead to New Forms, Invite Creation, Make Style
	Happily Ever After
	Heaven
	Hedges / Squirrel / Fox I
	Hemline
	High
	Holding
	Hop
	I - Impregnation, Obsession, Hallucination
	I Do Not Believe
	I Feel a Draft
	I Feel a Draught
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	dedicated works
	Composition No. 292

Steve Lacy (jazz saxophonist and composer 1934–2004)

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