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preserving Van Peebles' enjoyably eclectic score - blending jazz

and Hayward's Night Flight (1980) LP -- with the hard to find "It's Not On" -- are also covered

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Ackley-Chen-Centazzo-DeGruttola-Kaiser-Manring TWO VIEWS OF STEVE LACYS THE WIRE AQOTEE Album B&W and Brooklyn whilst working inTwo 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