Steve Lacy

Morning Joy

Hat Hut

From 1986: half Lacy’s stuff — including Wickets — half Monk’s, including a great In Walked Bud. Oliver Johnson and Jean-Jacques Avenal make a superb rhythm section, pulsating, bristling, always moving on; Steve Potts squalls and testifies like a post-Trane trooper; Lacy is a livewire, darting and alight. Don’t potter off before before the finale, As Usual: it’s triumphant.

• Epistrophy
• Prospectus
• Wickets
• Morning Joy
• Work
• In Walked Bud
• As Usual