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Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Paul Lytton Trio Live In Padua, 2004
by Centro d'Arte Padova
We continue to explore Centro d'Arte's vaults with a new installment of the “From the Archive" series, this time dedicated to the trio of Evan Parker, Barry Guy, and Paul Lytton. In this unreleased excerpt from their 2004 concert in Padua, Italy, the trio demonstrates, with an exemplary balance of strong individual voices and tight interplay, why it is regarded as an essential group in the European free music canon. Playlist Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Paul ...
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by John Eyles
In his biography of Robert Wyatt, Different Every Time (Serpent's Tail, 2015), author Marcus O'Dair describes Evan Parker as “perhaps the finest British free-jazz saxophonist of his generation." The only words in that phrase that seasoned Parker followers might take issue with are “perhaps," “British" and “free-jazz," preferring just to describe him as the finest improvising saxophonist of his generation. Be that as it may, as well as his pre-eminent status, Parker is also notoriously prolific and productive, having appeared ...
Continue ReadingEvan Parker / John Russell / Ian Brighton / Philipp Wachsmann / Marcio Mattos / Trevor Taylor: Reunion – Live From Cafe Oto
by Roger Farbey
Ian Brighton, musically dormant for around three decades, had a welcome renaissance a year ago with his album for Confront Recordings, Now And Then. Included on that album was an archival track, “30 Years From Yesterday" recorded in 1986 with Philipp Wachsmann, Marcio Mattos and Trevor Taylor. This quartet was collectively known as String Thing and made a return appearance on this live album recorded at Cafe Oto, London on August 14, 2016. The quartet alone features on “Why Did ...
Continue ReadingEvan Parker / Mark Nauseef / Toma Gouband: As The Wind
by John Eyles
Evan Parker's Psi label was once a flourishing concern, releasing up to ten albums a year in its peak years between 2004 and 2011, but activity has tailed off recently. After releasing five albums in 2012, neither 2013 nor 2014 brought anything, leading to fears that no more would be heard from Psi. Thankfully, since then it has revived, with 2015 and 2016 producing one album each, the welcome reissue of Parker's 1978 solo classic Monoceros followed by this new ...
Continue ReadingEvan Parker / Alexander Hawkins: Leaps In Leicester
by John Sharpe
Leaps in Leicester furthers a sequence of duets between renowned saxophonist Evan Parker and pianists that already contains such luminous entries as Rex, Wrecks and XXX (Rogue Art, 2013) with Matthew Shipp and Either, Or And (Relative Pitch, 2014) with Sylvie Courvoisier. His partner this time is Alexander Hawkins, a burgeoning presence on the UK scene who fronts his own ensembles and also works with leaders as diverse as Louis Moholo-Moholo and Mulatu Astatke. While it's not their first documented ...
Continue ReadingProgetto Primavera di Tempo Reale
by Neri Pollastri
>Progetto Primavera Firenze Limonaia di Villa Strozzi 18-28.05.2016 Organizzato da Tempo Reale, il centro di ricerca musicale fiorentino fondato da Luciano Berio, è andato in scena nel capoluogo toscano dal 18 al 28 maggio il Progetto Primavera 2016, rassegna di musica contemporanea che, dopo un prologo presso la casa circondariale di Sollicciano, ha avuto il suo inizio con il concerto di due storici e prestigiosi improvvisatori quali sono Evan Parker e Walter Prati, presso ...
Continue ReadingEvan Parker / Seymour Wright: Tie the Stone to the Wheel
by John Eyles
The five tracks on Tie the Stone to the Wheel were recorded at two duo gigs which saxophonists Evan Parker and Seymour Wright played in London and Derby, on consecutive Sundays in October 2014, at the Kernel Brewery and the Derby Theatre Studio. Remarkably, at the Derby gig, it was revealed that when Parker had played a previous gig at the venue, several decades before, Wright had been in the audience--as a six-month-old baby! While it is never ...
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