Steve Lacy, Yuji Takahashi, Takehisa Kosugi

A wonderfully mystic midsummer episode of free improv jazz recorded and reworked in Tokyo, 1976, now rendered and wrapped up for reissue by Belgium’s Aguirre. Original copies trade 2nd hand for the price of a small hatchback with a few miles left on the clock. This one will travel, we promise (no dodgy car dealer chat!)

“Thelonious Monk, Mal Waldron, Don Cherry, Roswell Rudd, Derek Bailey, Musica Elettronica Viva – saxophonist Steve Lacy played with them all. Renowned for remarkable solo concerts that confirmed his mastery of the soprano horn and that carried its instrumental language into previously unexplored regions, Lacy also loved to collaborate with musicians who could inspire him to stretch the boundaries of his own artistry.

During the summer of 1975 Lacy toured Japan, and on June 24th he entered a Nippon Columbia studio in Tokyo with Yuji Takahashi and Takehisa Kosugi, two adventurous kindred spirits, guaranteed to fire Lacy’s creative imagination. The fascinating outcome of that dynamic session is Distant Voices, an album without parallel in Lacy’s extensive discography.