Anthem (Steve Lacy album)

Released1990

RecordedJune 27–28, 1989

Length57:42

Anthem is an album by Steve Lacy released on the Arista Novus label in 1990. It features five of Lacy's compositions (and one by Jean-Jacques Avenel) with texts by Osip Mandelstam and Mary Frazee performed by Lacy, Bobby Few, Steve Potts, Jean-Jacques Avenel, John Betsch, Sam Kelly, Glenn Ferris, La Velle and Irene Aebi.^[1]^[2]

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Year(s) indicated are for the recording(s), not first release.
Studio albums	Soprano Sax (1957) Reflections (1958) The Straight Horn of Steve Lacy (1960) Evidence (1961) Disposability (1965) Sortie (1966) Moon (1969) Epistrophy (1969) Journey Without End (1971) Mal Waldron with the Steve Lacy Quintet (1972) Axieme (1975) Trickles (1976) One-Upmanship (1977) Troubles (1979) Songs (1981) Ballets (1981) The Flame (1982) Only Monk (1985) Sempre Amore (1986) One Fell Swoop (1986) The Gleam (1986) Momentum (1987) The Window (1987) Paris Blues (1987) The Door (1988) More Monk (1989) Anthem (1989) Hot House (1990) Remains (1991) Revenue (1993) Vespers (1993) Communiqué (1994) Monk's Dream (1999)
Live albums	The Forest and the Zoo (1967) Hard Talk (1974) Clinkers (1977) Stamps (1977/78) The Way (1979) Capers (1979) Ballets (1980) Live at Dreher, Paris 1981 (1981) Prospectus (1982) Blinks (1983) Morning Joy (1986) Flim-Flam (1986) The Super Quartet Live at Sweet Basil (1987) Itinerary (1990) Live at Sweet Basil (1991) Spirit of Mingus (1991) Clangs (1992) I Remember Thelonious (1992) We See (1992) Three Blokes (1992) Let's Call This... Esteem (1993) 5 x Monk 5 x Lacy (1997) The Cry (1998)
Related articles	Irene Aebi

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