Ackley-Chen-Centazzo-DeGruttola-Kaiser-Manring TWO VIEWS OF STEVE LACYS THE WIRE AQOTEE Album B&W Allen Says 5

Allen Says 5

tight beats

` This seminal recording blends soul

with a green

startlingly confessional lyrics

Ackley-Chen-Centazzo-DeGruttola-Kaiser-Manring TWO VIEWS OF STEVE LACYS THE WIRE AQOTEE Album B&W Allen Says 5Two Views of Steve Lacys The Wire re imagines a historic moment: that time when the American composer and soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy went into a Tokyo recording studio with some freshly made Japanese friends, where they recorded a lost classic. Lacys 1977 album The Wire was groundbreaking; this is merely magnificent. But what saxophonist Bruce Ackley, percussionist Andrea Centazzo, pianist Tania Chen, cellist Danielle DeGruttola, and bassists