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Adam Linson

Evan Parker / Matthew Wright, Trance Map+ with Peter Evans and Mark Nauseef: Etching the Ether

by Mark Corroto
August 22, 2023

Humans have seemingly always feared new technologies. We're not even talking about AI and ChatGPT. When the first electric light bulb was invented, folks worried it would end civilization as they knew it. Artificial light certainly changed how late one stayed up at night. On the other hand, it also allowed people to find their keys ...

Evan Parker: Crepuscule In Nickelsdorf 

by Mark Corroto
June 30, 2019

Excise the notion of virtual reality and AI as the force behind the music heard on Crepuscule In Nickelsdorf by Evan Parker and Matthew Wright's Trance Map+. Undoubtedly you might be tempted to have this thought by surveying the instrumentation, which is chock-full of sampling and electronics. Let's reserve those thoughts for a listen to this ...

John Butcher

by John Eyles
November 9, 2018

In the Building a Jazz Library article on Evan Parker, it says that seasoned Parker followers would describe him as the finest improvising saxophonist of his generation. Curiously, many of those same people would use exactly that phrase about John Butcher. The simple explanation for this apparent contradiction is that we are talking about two generations; ...

Figures and Grounds

By Adam Linson

Label: Psi
Released: 2011
Track listing: Swamp Delta to the Sky; City Dissolved in Light; Invisible Mornings.

Adam Linson: Figures and Grounds

by John Eyles
August 9, 2011

The personnel of double-bassist Adam Linson's System Quartet is so good that it sets the juices flowing even before a note of music has been heard. Figures and Grounds was recorded in January 2008, when Linson still lived in Berlin, and he took full advantage of his adopted city's resources, recruiting trumpeter Axel Dörner, bass clarinetist ...

Thomas Lehn: Backchats and Somethingtobesaid

by Clifford Allen
April 3, 2010

Speak Easy Backchats Creative Sources 2009 John Butcher Somethingtobesaid Weight of Wax 2009 Electronic instruments have been part of improvised music for over 40 years and the availability of digital ...

Cut And Continuum

By Adam Linson

Label: Psi
Released: 2006
Track listing: Peaks of present and sheets of past (cut and continuum 1); History growls at the door; Slivers of crystal-images (cut and continuum 2).

Adam Linson: Cut and Continuum

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 30, 2006

Cut and Continuum rappresenta il debutto discografico del contrabbassista Adam Linson, già figura di rilievo dell'ottetto di Evan Parker. Non aspettatevi un album facile, piuttosto un prodotto dalle mille sfaccettature, sicuramente in grado di sollevare molte polemiche, forse un po' ostico, ma per niente banale. Ed è infatti la coerenza logica che sorregge il lavoro a ...

Adam Linson: Cut and Continuum

by John Eyles
October 9, 2006

Whatever your reaction to the words “solo bass album, Adam Linson's debut will probably change your mind. Previously best known--if at all--as the bassist in Evan Parker's Electro-Acoustic Ensemble on The Eleventh Hour (ECM, 2005), Linson is here given centre stage and produces a recording that commands attention. His album of solo double bass largely eschews ...