Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy featuring Reggie Workman and Andrew Cyrille: Mighty Warriors - Live in Antwerp (Elemental Music Records) Steve Lacy: soprano saxophone Mal Waldron: piano Reggie Workman: double bass Andrew Cyrille: drums Several archival jazz releases were made available for this year’s Record Store Day, which too place last Saturday. Between the labels Elemental Music Records and Resonance Records alone, there were 8 or 9, including live recordings by Sonny Rollins, Yusef Lateef, Sun Ra, Art Tatum, and others. While most of those recordings were made during the 50s, 60s, and 70s, my pick of the bunch (Rollins apart) is a more recent live recording of Mal Waldron and Steve Lacy, titled
I’m big on Lacy (as anyone reading my substack knows lol) so I loved this release. Not just because it’s him with a killer band but because even diehards I know were caught off guard by it- they thought there was no more new Lacy out there!
I’m big on Lacy (as anyone reading my substack knows lol) so I loved this release. Not just because it’s him with a killer band but because even diehards I know were caught off guard by it- they thought there was no more new Lacy out there!
This is a must-hear, folks!