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Splinters: Inclusivity
by Chris May
Archive label Jazz In Britain comes up with another winner. Inclusivity is a 3 x CD collection of the complete performances of Splinters, an all-star 1972 septet comprising three hard boppers, two radical experimentalists and two in-betweeners. They were tenor saxophonist and flautist Tubby Hayes, alto saxophonist Trevor Watts, trumpeter and flugelhornist Kenny Wheeler, pianist Stan Tracey, bassist Jeff Clyne and drummers Phil Seamen and John Stevens. The band assembled for just two London gigs five months apart. It made ...
read moreFrode Gjerstad / Kent Carter / John Stevens: Detail - 90
by John Eyles
The group Detail first played together in December 1981. After a short period when the Norwegian pianist Eiven One Pederson was a member, it stabilised as a trio comprising Norwegian saxophonist Frode Gjerstad, South African bassist (and one-time Blue Note artist) Johnny Dyani, and British drummer John Stevens; these three recorded the group's first album, Backwards and Forwards (Impetus, 1983), in Norway, in October 1982. More albums followed, with Ness (Impetus, 1986) featuring guests Bobby Bradford, Harry Beckett and Courtney ...
read moreJohn Stevens - Evan Parker: Corner to Corner + The Longest Night
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nuova edizione per due pietre miliari della collaborazione tra John Stevens e Evan Parker, registrate a 17 anni di distanza. The Longest Night era uscita a suo tempo in due vinili, considerato un vertice della musica estrema dell’epoca (era il 1976). Corner to Corner è invece del 1993 e precede dunque di poco la scomparsa del batterista. John Stevens è stato tra i primi a praticare in Gran Bretagna l’improvvisazione assoluta, ed oltre ad essere un importante strumentista ha svolto ...
read moreSpontaneous Music Ensemble: Biosystem
by AAJ Italy Staff
Inciso nel 1977 dallo Spontaneous Music Ensemble (e ripubblicato oggi con 35 minuti d'inediti) questo disco appartiene alla seconda fase della vita del gruppo, quando la presenza di fiati ed ance (Trevor Watts, Kenny Wheeler, Evan Parker) fu sostituita da strumenti a corda: il violino di Nigel Coombes, la chitarra acustica di Roger Smith ed il violoncello di Colin Wood che uscirà subito dell'ensemble. Alle percussioni restava ovviamente il leader storico, John Stevens che negli anni successivi continuerà a riunire ...
read moreAmalgam: Innovation
by Rex Butters
In the early '60s Trevor Watts and John Stevens initiated the long-lived free jazz association that became known as Amalgam. Their extended tenure altered Euro jazz and improvised music forever, following their first recording in '69. Tangent records released their third album, Innovation , in 1974, after their Play Blackwell and Higgins set and several sessions recorded with trumpeter Bobby Bradford. Weirdly saddled with a “jazz rock" reputation with the addition of guitarist Keith Rowe after these sessions, the Innovation ...
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