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Evan Parker Electroacoustic Ensemble: Hasselt
by John Eyles
Evan Parker Electroacoustic EnsembleHasseltPsi2012Although Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble had recorded five albums for ECM since 1997, in 2009 saxophonist Parker's Psi label released SET under his own name; the album was effectively by the Electro-Acoustic Ensemble, sharing its personnel, instrumentation and working methods. At the time, it seemed as if it might have been released under Parker's name for contractual reasons. Now, with the release of Hasselt, the plot thickens; it is ...
Continue ReadingEvan Parker - Zlatko Kaučič: Round About One O'Clock
by AAJ Italy Staff
Round About One O'Clock documenta la performance che i due grandi esponenti della musica improvvisata europea hanno dato il 4 luglio 2009 in occasione del cinquantesimo anniversario del festival jazz di Lubiana. L'incontro è dedicato alla memoria dello sfortunato sassofonista Mike “Ozzie" Osborne che condivise con Parker alcuni capitoli della scena musicale britannica (il più noto con la Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath) e che il percussionista sloveno ebbe modo d'incontrare in un concerto spagnolo nel 1978, quando ormai la ...
Continue ReadingEvan Parker: Deciphering the Noise
by Henry Cooke
Imagine for a moment that the average jazz enthusiast is similar to a competent swimmer: safe within the confines of their local pool they're comfortable, perhaps a little brash.Individual lanes silently determine your path whilst lifeguards monitor your tempo with their special brand of overprotective nonchalance. Even the reassuring sting of chlorine serves as a constant reminder, protection from the unpleasant, the random.Now pluck this unsuspecting musical metaphor from the familiar embrace of the community pool ...
Continue ReadingEvan Parker / Wes Neal / Joe Sorbara: At Somewhere There
by Mark Corroto
Why, you might ask, does Evan Parker perform free jazz in trio, a format more identified with rhythm-based jazz? The answer is quite evident on At Somewhere There, a 40-minute improvisational interaction with two new partners.This trio's rhythm is supplanted by energy, animation, and a certain verve; but then, Parker has been at this for many years. Beginning with late-1960s noisy free jazz, he has developed his own language of saxophone virtuosity that includes circular breathing and extended ...
Continue ReadingParker / Lee / Evans : The Bleeding Edge
by John Eyles
Parker / Lee / EvansThe Bleeding EdgePsi2011 The coming together of American trumpeter Peter Evans, Korean (now New York-based) cellist Okkyung Lee and English saxophonist Evan Parker is a fine example of the trans-continental links that connect improvising musicians across the world. Despite their coming from three continents, it was no surprise when the three finally played as a trio; if anything, there was an inevitability about their coming together to play ...
Continue ReadingEvan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble, Huddersfield, UK, November 18, 2011
by Duncan Heining
Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic EnsembleBates MillHuddersfield, UKNovember 18, 2011 From tiny sextets do mighty 18-piece chamber ensembles grow. 21 years ago, improvising saxophonist Evan Parker first put together his original Electro-Acoustic Ensemble. Five ECM CD's later--not to mention Set on Parker's own psi label--the Evan-expanding EPEAE premiered Tesserae, its next release, at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. This was Parker's third Huddersfield commission, itself a mark of his stature across a range ...
Continue ReadingEvan Parker's Psi Label Celebrates First Ten Years
by John Eyles
November 2011 marks the tenth anniversary of saxophonist Evan Parker's Psi label. Its first release, the fine Parker solo album Lines Burnt in Light, was recorded on October 11 2001 and released within a month of recording. In the following decade, the label released a total of 83 CD's of which 14 were re-releases including 13 that first came out on Parker's former label, Incus. In the past five years, the number of re-releases has steadily dwindled, although some significant ...
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