Remains (Steve Lacy album)

Remains
Studio album by Steve Lacy
Released	1992
Recorded	April 29–30, 1991
Studio	Radio DRS, Zurich, Switzerland
Genre	Jazz
Length	64:20
Label	hat ART hat ART CD 6102
Producer	Pia Uehlinger, Werner X. Uehlinger
Steve Lacy chronology
Itinerary (1991) Remains (1992) Live at Sweet Basil (1992)

Remains is a solo album by soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy, which was recorded in Switzerland in 1991 and first released on the hat ART label the following year.[1][2][3]

Music and reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz	[5]

The first six tracks form a suite that was inspired by the Tao Te Ching.[5] The title track is a dance piece commissioned from Lacy, who described it as "a danse macabre of a skeleton in a tomb".[6] The album also contains a reworking of Lacy's "The Way" that would surprise listeners with how it was changed from earlier performances, he suggested.[6]

The Penguin Guide to Jazz praised the "close-up, attentive recording [that] catches every gritty little resonance and breath noise" and described the album as "Lacy's most accomplished solo performance for some time".[5] The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow stated "On this solo soprano saxophone CD, the remarkable Steve Lacy performs his six-song, half-hour "Time of Tao-Cycle," plus three other originals ... The improvising is thoughtful, adventurous, and sometimes wandering, but rarely aimless. For specialized tastes".[4]

Track listing

All compositions by Steve Lacy except where noted

1. "Existence" – 5:25
2. "The Way" – 6:46
3. "Bone" – 4:14
4. "Name" – 6:34
5. "The Breath" – 4:57
6. "Life on Its Way" – 2:49
7. "Pearl Street" – 5:15
8. "Remains" – 18:05
9. "Afterglow" – 6:11
10. "Epistrophy" (Thelonious Monk, Kenny Clarke) – 3:59

Personnel

• Steve Lacy – soprano saxophone

References

1. Jazzlists: Steve Lacy discography accessed July 13, 2018
2. Steve Lacy discography accessed July 13, 2018
3. Jazzlists: hatART discography: CDs: 6100 to 6199 accessed July 13, 2018
4. Yanow, Scott. Steve Lacy: Remains – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved July 13, 2018.
5. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (1994). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, LP & Cassette (2nd ed.). Penguin. p. 773. ISBN 978-0-14-024557-8.
6. Shoemaker, Bill (May 1992). "Steve Lacy's Relentless Intensity". DownBeat. Vol. 59, no. 5. p. 17.