ArtistInfo

Steve Lacy

ss, 1934-2004 US, New York City
Musician / Composer of Jazz
A.k.a. Steven Norman Lackritz Steve Sax (3)

Steve Lacy (July 23, 1934 – June 4, 2004), born Steven Norman Lackritz in New York City, was a jazz saxophonist and composer recognized as one of the important players of soprano saxophone. Coming to prominence in the 1950s as a progressive Dixieland musician, Lacy went on to a long and prolific career. He worked extensively in experimental jazz and to a lesser extent in free improvisation, but Lacy's music was typically melodic and tightly-structured. Lacy also became a highly distinctive composer, with compositions often built out of little more than a single questioning phrase, repeated several times.

Instruments

• Soprano sax
• Saxophone
• Vocals

Genres

• Jazz
• Electronic
• Spoken Word

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