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Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra featuring Marilyn Crispell and Evan Parker: Parallel Moments Unbroken

Read "Parallel Moments Unbroken" reviewed by Matt Parker

by Matt Parker
May 4, 2019

For this album, living legends in the world of improvised music Marilyn Crispell and Evan Parker joined the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra as featured soloists in these recordings of two separate live performances of the same composition (hence the duplication of some track titles). Parallel Moments Unbroken was written by GIO founding member Raymond MacDonald, and commissioned by BBC Radio 3 for Jazz on 3. It was devised using a combination of graphic scores, through-composed sections, artwork and photography, all of ...

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Raymond MacDonald: Man with Two Brains

by Duncan Heining
January 7, 2016

By way of introduction... Saxophonist Raymond MacDonald is a busy man. He balances the life of a gigging, recording musician with a high-flying academic career and, in both respects, his reputation has grown far beyond his Glasgow home. As a musician, he is perhaps best known for his work with the George Burt/Raymond MacDonald group, with the Glasgow Improvisers' Orchestra (GIO), which he helped form, and with the saxophone quartet, the Hung Drawn Quartet. Both the Burt/MacDonald group ...

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Raymond MacDonald - Günter "Baby" Sommer: Delphinius & Lyra

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 28, 2007

Bello, ma certo non innovativo o d’importanza ineludibile, questo CD, inciso dal vivo a Glasgow nel settembre 2005, che rientra nell'ambito della libera improvvisazione a due voci (tanto è vero che tutti i brani sono a firma congiunta). Bello per l'onesta, collaborativa impostazione del dialogo, per la fluida schiettezza comunicativa, per la varietà degli accenti e la naturalezza con cui si concatenano le idee... Rimarchevoli soprattutto la qualità del sound, i colori delle pronunce strumentali dei due improvvisatori: pronunce che ...