Bone A tribute to Steve Lacy
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	writemen unlimited, 2003
	- 21 cm x 21 cm - 130 pages - numerous black-and-white photographies - CD (Steve Lacy Solo at Afkikker)

This tribute was written as a goodbye present for Steve Lacy on his departure to Boston after a thirty year stay in Europe. This is not a definitive biography of Steve Lacy, nor a complete musicological analysis, but a collection of highly individual reactions to Lacy’s art.

The book contains:

• More than 50 photo’s and illustrations of Lacy and his colleagues;
• Personal reactions on the art of Steve Lacy by Evan Parker, Fred Van Hove and Mal Waldron;
• Two music sheets especially conceived for Lacy by Joëlle Léandre and Mikhael Bezverkhny;

• An essay of Fernand Tanghe that situates Lacy in music history;
• An essay of Olivier Braet that analyses Lacy’s main literary sources of inspiration;
• Rita De Vuyst describes Steve Lacy’s performances in Ghent, his cooperation with Evan Parker, and the exposition in Ghent that was dedicated to Lacy;
• The full transcription of a long, never before published interview with Steve Lacy on his favorite writers and artists;
• A final word of thanks by Rita De Vuyst in the form of a personal impression of ‘Blossoms’, Steve Lacy’s goodbye-concerts in Belgium.

Excerpts (in pdf format) at Café Afkikker

To order a copy (book + CD):

Send a mail to olivier@writemen.com or info@afkikker.be
A copy costs 33 euros without shipment, and 35 euros with shipment anywhere in Europe.
A 33 euros copy can be collected in Café Afkikker, St. Kwintensberg 52, B-9000 Ghent (Belgium).