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Steve Lacy
Jazz saxophonist and composer Steve Lacy was born in New York City in 1934 and
came to prominence playing dixieland jazz for a variety of jazz combos. It was
the start of an interesting, long and prolific career which saw Lacy experiment
with avant-garde music within multi media formats. Although he was a skilled
performer of experimental jazz he differed from his peers in that he preferred
melody and tightly structured arrangements rather than the free improvisation
which is so prevalent in experimental jazz. He had a long association with the
music of the renowned jazz pianist ...
