Jazz Articles about Barry Guy

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Portrait Barry Guy: March 15-16

by A. Henkin
July 8, 2007

Barry GuyMoodsZurich, SwitzerlandMarch 15-16, 2007 How does a musician with a career approaching 40 years begin to attempt “summarizing it for a two-day festival? The answer, in the case of British bass innovator Barry Guy, is to not. Given the opportunity to present a “Portrait of himself, Guy, along with festival organizers Maya Homburger and Patrik Landolt, instead chose to reflect on the past by remaining squarely in the present, with a handful of current ...

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Agusti Fernandez / Barry Guy / Ramon Lopez: Aurora

by A. Henkin
March 24, 2007

It would be a fallacy to think that any musician who inhabits the world of free improvisation wishes that world to be a noisy chaotic place. Indeed, one cannot make any assumptions these days about free players, whether it be based on age, background or collaborators. Though Spain has not produced the avant-garde swarms of other places in Europe, it has a respected ambassador in pianist Agusti Fernández. But to call Fernández avant-garde is another fallacy. Call him flexible, call ...

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Evan Parker / Barry Guy / Paul Lytton: Zafiro

by Eyal Hareuveni
February 1, 2007

My level of expectation for a new release by the trio of Evan Parker, Barry Guy and Paul Lytton is always high. These British gentlemen are masters of free improvisation and have collaborated together for almost forty years in many groups, like Barry Guy's London Jazz Composers' Orchestra and the more recent New Orchestra and Evan Parker's Electro-Acoustic Ensemble. They have criss-crossed over the years in duos, trios and trios augmented by like-minded improvisers such as pianists Marylin Crispell and ...

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Evan Parker / Barry Guy / Paul Lytton: Zafiro

by Mark Corroto
January 21, 2007

The best comparison to the trio of Evan Parker, Barry Guy and Paul Lytton in modern performing jazz might be Keith Jarrett's trio with Jack DeJohnette and Gary Peacock. Like Jarrett's trio performances of jazz standards, the Parker/Guy/Lytton meetings are modern benchmarks for trio interplay, empathy and creative music. But where Jarrett begins his exploration at a well-known point of departure, Parker, Guy and Lytton draw upon their forty-year codex of improvisation--not only as a jumping-off point, but as their ...

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Barry Guy: Barry Guy: Folio

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 2, 2006

Barry Guy Folio ECM Records (2005 - distr.Ducale) Valutazione: 4 stelle Approda su CD per la New Series uno dei più ambiziosi e stimolanti lavori di Barry Guy, in cui si incrociano i territori della composizione, dell'improvvisazione e della (re)interpretazione della musica antica, barocca e contemporanea. I precedenti - e fortunati - tentativi di fondere la creazione musicale istantanea con una costruzione predefinita, in cui trovasse spazio l'amore per Purcell, Downland e Biber si erano concretizzati discograficamente per lo più ...

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Barry Guy -- London Jazz Composers Orchestra: Study II, Stringer

by Glenn Astarita
March 11, 2006

This newly-released outing looms as a modern/free jazz fest, highlighting studio sessions performed in 1983 ("Stringer, London) and 1991 ("Study II," Switzerland) and led by bassist Barry Guy's multinational orchestra, featuring a who's who of the Euro jazz and improvisation scene. The bassist steers the ensemble through a potpourri of mood-evoking frameworks. In addition to spiraling soprano sax solos by Evan Parker and yearning lines by trumpeter Kenny Wheeler, Guy's compositions boast ominous strings and horns passages instilled with climactic ...

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Barry Guy: Oort-Entropy / Dakryon

by A. Henkin
January 22, 2006

Few could imagine in 1972, when bassist Barry Guy first convened the London Jazz Composers Orchestra, its future impact as a large ensemble. When he chose to work with a “new orchestra in 2000, the scope was condensed, 10 players doing the work of what had been 20, but surprisingly was no less expansive.

Barry Guy New Orchestra Oort-Entropy Intakt 2005

With his New Orchestra, Guy has brought together a international tentet - Evan Parker, Mats ...