Shots - Steve Lacy [Musica MUS3024]

Steve Lacy in the late Seventies (see Stamps, below) brought this to mind. Quite a different sort of record to Stamps, it's a duet with Japanese percussionist Masa Kwate. A very stripped down, even 'art-naive' feel to proceedings, counterbalanced somewhat by Lacy's knotty asceticism. Irene Aebi is featured (voice & violin) on one track only - The Kiss - which bizarrely puts to music the 'brass-plaque- in- the- English- garden' homilies of early 20thC religious hymn-writer/poet Dorothy Gurney.

Roundel on the front cover shows a 1980 award from L´Académie du Jazz.

Record was released in 1979.

But *recorded* earlier still, in a Paris studio , in 1977.

Cover art is by Brion Gysin.

There are large scans of front & rear covers included.

It may have been blogged before - I don't know.

If you don't have it - here it is.

Shots

- Steve Lacy -

1. Moms

2. Pops

3. The Kiss

4. Tots

5. The Ladder

6. Fruits

7. Coots

8. The Wire

Steve Lacy - soprano saxophone

Masa Kwate - traditional japanese percussion

Irene Aebi - violin & vocal on 3. only

Rec. October 15th, 1977