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Hans Koller

London Ear

33 Jazz

Review from allaboutjazz

This may or may not be the last album Steve Lacy participated in before his death—it is certainly amongst the last, recorded as it was in December '03, only a few months before he died—but in any event it has another timely significance.

Conceived by Hans Koller, in the main, as a big band showcase for Lacy's 'offensive and on the brink improvising' (to use the saxophonist's own descriptions of his work), Lacy is the featured soloist on seven of the eleven tracks.

The tunes themselves are by no means the usual suspects, nor, with the exception of Lacy's own “Blinks,” ones you would immediately call out if asked to select material for a Lacy big band project.

Four are composed by Koller, with Miles Davis, Ray Noble and—definitely out of the left field this one – Warne Marsh contributing one apiece (respectively, “Filles De Kilimanjaro,” “The Touch Of Your Lips,” and “Marshmallow,” the latter given some very un-Tristano School assault and battery by honorary Londoner Gene Calderazzo).

Read the complete review at allaboutjazz