"When I first saw the paintings of Mark Rothko, back in the 50's, they seemed to me like giant, spiritual, colored "flakes". Later, in 1970, I wrote this piece which is about another kind of flakes, the little ones that form on the blades of ice skaters (a flake is a flake)."
Steve Lacy
| Written: | 1972 |
| First published: | unissued |
| Availability: | not available anymore - previously distributed by Steve Lacy on behalf of Senators |
| Instrumentation: | saxophone, bass NB: Tiziana Simona has written lyrics for this theme (cf. her interpretation with Lacy & Waldron). |
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