Lacy is also a capable section player he’s worked with big bands led by David Murray and McCoy Tyner, as well as Lester Bowie’s Brass Fantasy and the Mingus Big Band. Lacy’s first record as a leader was Tonal Weights and Blue Fire (Enja/Tutu, 1991). Lacy attended Berklee School of Music in Boston, where he met and jammed with Branford Marsalis, Greg Osby, and Marvin “Smitty” Smith. Before beginning his advanced musical studies in the late ’70s, Lacy earned a university degree in physics. He played the euphonium and tuba in junior high school, and began playing trombone at 16. Lacy began taking piano lessons at the age of eight and took up the trumpet soon after. He came from a musical family his father was a teacher and a guitarist (he played with such musicians as Illinois Jacquet, Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson, and Arnett Cobb, among others), and his mother was a gospel singer. (AP Photo) ESPN shared with viewers the story of Eddie Lacy 's 'Homecoming,' going along with the former Alabama star as he visited for the first time the house he had built for his parents. Indeed, Lacy spent a year-and-a-half as music director for Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and played with Bobby Watson’s Horizon band, which says everything about his bop credentials.
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Lacy has played with such free jazz paragons as Henry Threadgill, Oliver Lake, and Julius Hemphill, yet can also count Dizzy Gillespie and Abdullah Ibrahim among the prominent leaders for whom he’s worked. Others, like Frank Lacy, straddled the fence between avant-garde and mainstream forms.
He was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the second round of the 2013 NFL Draft. He played college football at Alabama, where he was a member of three BCS National Championship teams in the 2009, 2011, and 2012 seasons. During the ’80s and ’90s, most of the best jazz trombonists were inclined toward free jazz: Albert Mangelsdorff, Craig Harris, and Steve Swell, among them. (born June 2, 1990) is an American former football running back in the National Football League (NFL).
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