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ARTIST
LACY, ALVIN CURRAN & FREDERIC RZEWKI, STEVE
TITLE
Threads
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
ALTERNATIVE FOX
CATALOG #
FOX 021LP
FOX 021LP
GENRE
JAZZ
RELEASE DATE
12/6/2019
Alternative Fox present a reissue of
Steve Lacy
,
Alvin Curran
, and
Frederic Rzewki
's
Threads
, originally released in 1977. Playing in Dixieland jazz bands during his teens and then passing through some Kansas City jazz acts, New York-born alto saxophonist Steve Lacy became associated with the avant-garde jazz movement from the mid-1950s, playing on free jazz pianist
Cecil Taylor
's influential debut LP and early work by the Canadian pianist
Gil Evans
, before serving a long tenure with the idiosyncratic improv pianist
Theolonius Monk
, whose work he would continue to reference throughout his career. Visiting Europe from the md-1960s, starting with a trip to Copenhagen with pianist
Kenny Drew
(who made the Danish city his home thereafter), Lacy later travelled to Italy to form a quartet with Italian trumpeter
Enrico Rava
(who had earlier played in Argentinian sax player,
Gato Barbieri
's group), plus South African exiles and former
Blue Notes
members
Johnny Dyani
on double bass and
Louis Moholo
on drums. Lacy subsequently moved to Paris, which became his permanent base from 1970, leading a sextet there whilst also exploring the limits of the alto saxophone as a solo instrument. The disparate and often discordant album
Threads
was recorded in Rome at Mama Dog studio in 1977 for filmmaker-turned-record producer
Aldo Sinesio
's Horo Records label; comprised of six of Lacy's own compositions, the album saw Lacy supported by Alvin Curran on piano and Frederic Rzewski on flugelhorn, synthesizer, and percussion, the pair both longstanding members of the experimental group,
Musica Elettronica Viva
.
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