Jazz Articles about Evan Parker

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Parker, Rutherford, Schneider & Lytton: Waterloo 1985

by Glenn Astarita
June 1, 1999

Waterloo 1985 was recorded live at “Le Festival Jazz ET Musiques Improvisees” in Waterloo, Belgium August 17,1985 and features one lengthy piece titled, “Dark Interior”.

This “live date” signifies the British Free-Jazz movement at its best, as Evan Parker (saxophones), Paul Rutherford (trombone), Paul Lytton (perc), and Hans Scnheider (bass) present a case study in improvisation. “Dark Interior” is the lone piece here and clocks in at 61 minutes. The proceedings commence with Paul Rutherford and Evan Parker jabbing, sparring ...

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Evan Parker: Waterloo 1985

by Robert Spencer
June 1, 1999

The intoxicating spirit of the kind of “free" improvisation that this disc exemplifies comes from the in-the-moment interplay between the players, a microscopic call-and-response activity that creates a music of flows, eddies, tensions, and releases. Over the single hour-long track on this disc, Evan Parker , Paul Rutherford, Hans Schneider, and Paul Lytton play undulating music of otherworldly calm, furious sparks and shards of energy music, death-defying leaps and gear changes: in short, an entire thesaurus of melodic, harmonic, dynamic ...

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Evan Parker: Monoceros

by AAJ Staff
May 1, 1999

Evan Parker's monolithic 1978 solo record Monoceros was originally released on Incus and has subsequently been digitally remastered for CD release on Chronoscope. Monoceros distinguishes itself in several respects: first, because it was recorded by the direct-cut process, whereby the sound pathway went directly from the microphone to a vinyl master. By virtue of eliminating the tape intermediate, the hope was to reduce noise and limit the need for processing and filters. The important functional consequence of this technology was ...

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Evan Parker and Sainkho Namtchylak: Mars Song

by Robert Spencer
June 1, 1997

A few years ago I was teaching music appreciation classes when I happened upon a book called Tuva or Bust. It was an account of how the author was inspired by the renowned physics professor Richard Feynman to investigate (and eventually visit) the remote central Asian land known as Tannu Tuva. Tuva, as it is commonly known, had attracted international notice during a brief period of independence (before being swallowed by the Soviet Union) with its flamboyant postage stamps. It ...