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No Work Today
(Nine for Steve Lacy)
No
Work Today (Nine for Steve Lacy)
is Giardullo’s homage to
Steve Lacy, with whom he played in 2004. The recording is an
investigation into phrases and organization, motifs rather than pure
sound. Lacy tunes like “Prospectus” and “Hurtles” are starting points
for an extension of Lacy’s idiom somewhere into another place on the
soprano spectrum, while Giardullo opens with a composition based on
Monk’s “Work” (the title track, its namesake a piece that yielded many
Lacy improvisations). Giardullo takes the quirks and snips that Lacy
provides and rather than spacing them out, breaking them or bending them
(which might be the obvious choice), builds long spiraling lines that
are not only more dense than one might expect, but also hit Lacy on
another point of the harmonic spectrum entirely. In other words, rather
than dissonant voicings and metrical movement, Giardullo appears to be
searching for something almost modal. No Work Today pays homage
to something similar to the open door that Monk provided for Lacy,
namely a view to the other side.
This limited edition (600 copies) is beautifully packaged with
extensive liner notes by John Szwed, author of “Space is the Place: Sun
Ra’s Life on Earth” published in 1997; and “So What: The life of Miles
Davis”, published in 2002.
9
tracks in
63 minutes.
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Limited Edition of 600 copies
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