Solo:
Butch Lacy solo – but not alone, STUCD 02102
As pianist:
Lee Konitz, “Leewise”, Storyville, STCD 4181
Chet Baker, “When Sunny Gets Blue”, Steeple Chase, SCCD 31221
Gary Bartz, “Monsoon”, Steeple Chase, SCCD 31234
Red Rodney, “Red Gaint”, Steeple Chase, SCCD 31233
Bob Rockwell Quartet, “No Rush”, Steeple Chase, SCCD 31219
Bob Rockwell Quartet, “On the Natch”, Steeple Chase, SCCD31229
Putte Wickman, “Wickman in Wonderland”, EMI
Putte Wickman, “In Silhouette”, Phontastic
Putte Wickman, “Four Leaf Clover” - “Songs Without Words”, Zenith, ZMC 8503
Art Pepper, “ The 1975 Garden State Jam Sessions”, Lone Hill Jazz, LHJ 10205
Bo Jacobsen, “Free Spirit”, Embla Music & Experience, EME, 1301
Suzanne Brøgger, “Sløret to suiter”, Exlibris Musik, EXL 30131
Lacy, Løvdal, Osgood, Dresser “Being Playing”, ILK 2015
Compositions for big band:
Klüver’s Big Band, “Jasmine-Plays Butch Lacy”, Right Tone, Rightcd, 015
Budapest Jazz Orchestra, “A Noiseful Joy-Butch Lacy & Budapest Jazz Orchestra”, BJO Records
Compositions for solists and emsembles:
Mad Cows Sing, “Mad Cows Sing”, STUCD 19817
Duo Concertante, “Jørgen Jersild / Herman D. Koppel / Butch Lacy / Palle Mikkelborg / Vagn Holmboe”, EMI, 7496792
Jens Juul . Horn, “In the Forest”, Classico, CLASSCD, 320
Compositions for choir:
Schola Cantorum Coralina La Habana, Cuba, “The 8th World Symposium on Choral Music, Copenhagen, Thursday, 24.7.2008 Opera House”, DR.P2/AVA, LC00027 (on this CD, my piece, “Wo-de-o” is listed as #7 but it is actually, #6 ! )
Arrangements for soloists and orchestra, big band, horns, strings or choir:
Sinne Eeg, “The Beauty of Sadness”, for orchestra, (RUO), SINNE Music, SINNE,003
Povl Dissing, “Svantes lykkelige dag”, DR Big Band, Dansk Stereo, COPECD 115
Etta Cameron, ”Have a Little Faith in Me”, Lady be Good, DR Big Band
Caroline Henderson, “Made in Europe”, orchestra arrangements, Stunt Records
Caroline Henderson, “8”, horn arrangements, Stunt Records
Caroline Henderson, “Keeper of the Flame”, choir and horn arrangements, Stunt Records
Caroline Henderson, “Jazz, Love and Henderson”, horn and string arrangements, Stunt Records
Solo - but not alone
Butch Lacy solo
Butch Lacy’s universe is colorful, adventurous and passionate, full of belief in beauty, in life, in coherence. And so is his life-affirming music.
A solo concert is a pianists most difficult and challenging discipline. The art of being able to empty your mind of anything irrelevant, becoming one with your instrument. Letting sound, consciousness and time merge into a higher unity. At once as tangible and untouchable as experiencing the clouds in the sky before sunset.
A number of jazz standards and a single tune from Butch Lacy, interpreted and played by a highly individual, concentrated and uncompromising pianist, showing a new side to him. A unique experience, to say the least.
Line up
Butch Lacy: piano
Released 2002 / STUNT RECORDS
songs without words
Putte Wickman, Butch Lacy,
Klavs Hovman, Bjarne Rostvold
Released 1985 / ZENITH
Being Playing
Butch Lacy, Jesper Løvdal & Kresten Osgood (feat. Mark Dresser)
Being Playing is a musical landscape that organically unfolds as a meditative story. The form is abstract and closer to the way of a modern classical composer than of straight ahead jazz.
This recording is a personal milestone for each of the musicians and opens up a new musical chapter in their musical odyssey.
The musicians come from different musical backgrounds, but do nevertheless have a clear mutual idea of how music has it’s own strong inner life, without the appearance of the musicians ego.
Mark Dresser is a legend in American improvised music and groundbreaking on the double bass, which he has given an entirely new voice. After many years of living in New York playing with Anthony Braxton, Tim Berne, Ray Andersson and John Zorn, he is now a professor at University of California, San Diego, where he met Butch Lacy 35 years ago.
When Mark Dresser, Butch Lacy and Jesper Løvdal met for a concert in Copenhagen the magic occurred from the first sound and it was a necessity to go into the studio and bring the young drummer that originally brought Butch and Jesper together; Kresten Osgood. Osgood has his roots in jazz but plays with an universal artistic expression which lives very much in the present moment, and melts together with the rest of the band.
Line up
Butch Lacy: piano
Jesper Løvdal: tenor saxofone, alto flute, contrabass clarinet
Kresten Osgood: drums
Mark Dresser: double bass
Released 2015 / ILK
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