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Live From Birmingham: Alan Wilkinson, Ari Eisinger, Manos Pa’Aribba & Paul Dunmall
by Martin Longley
Alan Wilkinson & Andrew Cheetham The Lamp Tavern September 26, 2017 The fortnightly (apart from during the low seasons) Fizzle improvised music session takes place on Tuesdays in the rear room of The Lamp Tavern, a back street public house in the old industrial hinterland of Digbeth. Much of this Birmingham quarter has steadily been artistically colonised during the last two decades, but this Lamp joint is even on the edge such creative ...
read moreAlan Wilkinson/John Edwards/Steve Noble: London, England, January 9, 2013
by John Sharpe
Alan Wilkinson/John Edwards/Steve NobleCafé OtoLondonJanuary 9, 2013It didn't look promising to begin with. In the dark days of January with the New Year festivities over and done, there's not a lot of enthusiasm for nocturnal adventure, so it was no surprise to see just a couple of people waiting outside before the doors of north London's Cafe Oto opened. But clearly there was promise in the air. By the time saxophonist Alan Wilkinson took to ...
read moreAlan Wilkinson / John Edwards / Steve Noble: Live At Cafe Oto
by Mark F. Turner
The audacity of free jazz is its tightrope balance between chaos and control, music almost without boundaries. Vociferous and untamed, maybe, but certainly not undisciplined, it takes a certain skill and ingenuity to create music such as heard on Live At Cafe Oto. To the contrary, the UK free jazz trio--Alan Wilkinson (reeds), John Edwards (bass), and Steve Noble (drums) is clearly versed in jazz theory from the hard bop sounds of Charles Mingus to the avant-gardism of Albert Ayler. ...
read morePeter Brötzmann - Alan Wilkinson Quartet: One Night in Burmantofts
by AAJ Italy Staff
Scontro di due tornadi che incrociano le traiettorie e danzano vorticosamente assieme, il meeting tra Peter Brötzmann e il collega inglese Alan Wilkinson [che risale all'autunno del 1996, ma che la Bo' Weavil felicemente sceglie di pubblicare] è uno di quegli eventi sonori per i quali non c'è giacca impermeabile che tenga: se ne viene fuori inzuppati di musica dalla testa alla punta dei piedi. Si spartiscono diligentemente le ance - tenore, clarinetto e tarogato per il sassofonista tedesco, alto ...
read moreSteve Noble - John Edwards - Alan Wilkinson: Obliquity
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il linguaggio della libera improvvisazione passa attraverso una serie di concetti chiave, di quelli che in un motore di ricerca verrebbero classificati come tags: onestà, responsabilità, scelta, opportunità, relazione, caso, energia. A volte ci sono, altre no, più spesso ce n'è una parte e qualcosa manca, come è logico, come è nella vita. 1) Caso Il caso ha fatto incrociare la prima volta gli strumenti a Alan Wilkinson, John Edwards e Steve Noble: complice un forfait dell'ultimo momento di Lol ...
read moreAlan Wilkinson/Eddie Prevost/Joe Wiliamson: Along Came Joe
by Nic Jones
This is music as a language of ongoing discussion in the best sense. Recorded at the Freedom of the City Festival in London just over a year ago, the single thirtyfive minute piece captured for posterity here starts out with Wilkinson and Prevost renewing their dialogue. In a dialect more heated than that found on their other effort ('So Are We, So Are We' on the same label), it's still founded on a deep understanding of musical democracy. Wilkinson gets ...
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