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Matthew Shipp / Evan Parker: Leonine Aspects
by Karl Ackermann
Matthew Shipp's duo recordings with saxophonists such as Ivo Perelman and Rob Brown have always been intriguing but his projects with Evan Parker are fascinating in their complexity and openness. The two master improvisers have teamed up twice before, beginning with Abbey Road Duos (Treader, 2007) and recorded several more albums together with the Spring Heel Jack collective. Leonine Aspects was recorded live in 2017 at the Festival Météo de Mulhouse in France. While Shipp and Parker have different stylistic ...
Continue ReadingJoëlle Léandre / Evan Parker / Agustí Fernández / Zlatko Kaučič: A Uiš?
by John Sharpe
Though the instrumentation on A Uiš evokes the classic jazz quartet, the outcome resides a world away from that tradition. To celebrate 40 years as a professional musician, Slovenian drummer Zlatko Kaučič assembled a quartet of top drawer improvisers for a 45-minute collectively navigated journey, recorded live at the jazz festival in his home town of Cernko in 2018. Each boasts an unrivalled track record and the discography to prove it. Each is a groundbreaking leader. British saxophonist Evan Parker ...
Continue ReadingEvan Parker / Paul Lytton: Collective Calls (Revisited) (Jubilee)
by John Sharpe
Fifty years on from their first encounter, the British pairing of saxophonist Evan Parker and drummer Paul Lytton convened in a Chicago studio to record Collective Calls (Revisited) (Jubilee), named in echo of their first release. Of course they've reunited countless times in the interim, notably as two thirds of the classic trio completed by bassist Barry Guy, and in Parker's Electro-Acoustic Ensemble among other formations. Not that the current date recalls the earlier session in much other than instrumentation, ...
Continue ReadingEvan Parker / Barry Guy / Paul Lytton: Concert In Vilnius
by John Sharpe
In a world riven by climate chaos and the attack on truth, on both sides of the Atlantic, it is reassuring that some things remain constant. At this stage of an existence dating back to the early 80s, the superlative British trio of saxophonist Evan Parker, bassist Barry Guy and drummer Paul Lytton plays only a few concerts each year. When they do, the results tend to the spectacular, and Concert In Vilnius only affirms that. In fact, when taken ...
Continue ReadingSpanish-British links on Vector Sounds
by John Eyles
In recent decades improvised music has become increasingly international, with improv players from across the world being attracted to global centres such as London or Berlin, playing and forging links there before moving on. Where members of an improvising group were once all of the same nationality, today it is uncommon to find all the members of a group are the same nationality, and not uncommon for all members to be of different nationalities. All of this was emphasised by ...
Continue ReadingEvan Parker & Kinetics: Chiasm
by Alberto Bazzurro
Inciso a fine febbraio 2018 fra Londra e Copenhagen, come i titoli dei quattro brani su cui si snoda democraticamente ci dicono, al tempo stesso informandoci implicitamente che trattasi di improvvisazione senza rete, questo album fotografa la collaborazione fra un autentico santone del radicalismo jazzistico del Vecchio Continente e un giovane trio danese, che lo asseconda--sarà il caso di dirlo subito--del tutto degnamente. Evan Parker si produce unicamente al tenore, cosa che del resto gli capita di ...
Continue ReadingEvan Parker, Matthew Wright Trance Map: Crepuscule In Nickelsdorf
by Alberto Bazzurro
A poco più di due anni dalla sua incisione (luglio 2017), esce questo nuovo lavoro del gruppo elettronico capitanato dalla coppia Parker/Wright. Il tessuto è quello tipico del sassofonista inglese (qui solo al soprano), con le sue circonvoluzioni qui quanto mai iterate all'infinito, ad alternarsi o sovrapporsi al substrato elettronico dei coinquilini. Il risultato è di una noia e un'irresolutezza mortali, indigesto come di rado ci capita di riscontrare nei millanta ascolti cui ci sottoponiamo, il che non ...
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