Roswell Rudd and Steve Lacy
Tonight's programme features a quartet led by soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy and trombonist Roswell Rudd in performances given at the Empty Bottle Club in Chicago. It was Steve Lacy who first championed the soprano sax, and it was this that established him as a major voice in modern jazz. Roswell Rudd is a veteran of saxophonist Archie Shepp 's ensembles and those oftrumpeter Bill Dixon. Hewasa founder member of the New York Art
Quartet. Bassist Jean-Jacques Avenel and drummer John Betsch complete the line-up. Producers Steve Shepherd and Kathryn Willgress