That's a lovely take, Pierre, on both Lacy & Creeley. We were very
lucky in Edmonton, as it was right on the way when Lacy travelled from
Paris to NY, so we got to hear his group each year for about 5 or 6
years in the 90s. What a gift.
Both are spirits missed terribly....
Doug
On 6-Apr-05, at 6:34 PM, Pierre Joris wrote:
> On Apr 6, 2005, at 10:21 AM, MJ Walker wrote:
>
>> By the way, I just pulled out my copy of *Futurities* 2 (missed 1,
>> dash it! both now difficult to obtain) by Steve Lacy (himself recently
>> deceased in 2004) - a stripped down yet paradoxically lush setting of
>> Creeley poems with the rebarbative but ultimately insinuating voice of
>> Irene Aebi; dig that train in "Train going by", bumpety-bump, the best
>> train in jazz despite Ellington. Amazing filigree saxophone soloing on
>> "The Eye". undsoweiter...
>> The back of the CD label registers thanks to a certain Pierre Joris...
>>
>
> if you had the vinyl version, you could read my liner notes which tell
> how that particular event came about --actually you can read them on
> the "homage to steve lacy" page on my website:
> http://albany.edu/~joris/LacyHomage.html
> cheers, p
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He saw the dark as a ragged garment
spread out to air.
Through its rents and moth-holes
the silver light came pouring.
Denise Levertov
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