Jazz Articles about Pocket

Pocket: Pocket

by John Eyles
July 22, 2002

John Bisset and Alex Ward are both renowned free improvisers. Bisset organised the annual Relay improvisation festival, set up the 2-13 club and led the London Electric Guitar Orchestra. Ward, who also plays clarinet, famously appeared in one of Derek Bailey's Company Weeks when he was only 14. All of which makes Pocket even more remarkable than it would otherwise have been. The band and the album are both stripped back to the essentials, and have a classic ...