Results for "Barry Guy New Orchestra"

Article: Album Review

Peter Evans / Barry Guy: Syllogistic Moments

by John Sharpe
December 24, 2018

From the first few seconds of the opening “Red Green" onwards, this live recording from trumpeter Peter Evans and bassist Barry Guy is a feat of death defying bravura. The two are among the most utterly distinctive practitioners on their instruments and they create a fast evolving kaleidoscope of preposterous sounds. Evans named his record label ...

Article: Profile

Barry Guy: A Prophet is Not without Honour (Part 2)

by Duncan Heining
February 21, 2016

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Barry Guy has been the artistic director and main composer of the London Jazz Composers' Orchestra throughout its now forty-five year history. Recordings and performances since Ode in 1972 have been sporadic but those forty-five years have resulted in eleven albums (including one with Anthony Braxton) ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Barry Guy New Orchestra: Amphi - Radio Rondo

by John Sharpe
April 10, 2014

One of the most noteworthy releases of 2013 was the Barry Guy New Orchestra's Mad Dogs (Not Two), a five disc compendium which collected largely freeform meetings between various subsets of the 11-piece company during their 2010 residency in Krakow. However even that copious set offered only a partial view of the Orchestra's range, a deficiency ...

Article: Album Review

Barry Guy New Orchestra: Amphi - Radio Rondo

by Glenn Astarita
April 7, 2014

Venerable British bassist and improviser, Barry Guy is the director of the New Orchestra but also serves as an enabler for the musicians' creative sparks to flourish. Other than frequent collaborator American trumpeter Herb Robertson, this aggregation consists of largely, European avant-jazz luminaries, prefacing the agenda on a hybrid chamber-orchestral slant, suitably noted by Guy in ...

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Barry Guy New Orchestra

Featuring the music of Barry Guy
Duration: 6:54
July 28, 2011

Barry Guy New Orchestra, The last concert before the Big Finale in Manggha. Recorded in Alchemia, Cracow, Poland. Special piece for Marek Winiarski. Barry Guy: bass, director; Augusti Fernandez: piano; Evan Parker: sax; Mats Gustafsson: sax, flutophone; Hans Koch: sax, clarinets; Herb Robertson: trumpet; Johannes Bauer: trombone; Per ke Holmlander: tuba; Paul Lytton: percussion; Raymond Strid: percussion.

Article: Album Review

Barry Guy New Orchestra: Oort-Entropy

by Glenn Astarita
November 23, 2005

Seminal free jazz bassist Barry Guy is responsible for manning some of the finest albums in this rather opaque genre. Aside from his longtime affiliations with saxophonist Evan Parker and drummer Paul Lytton--both of whom are featured here--the bassist is no stranger to leading exploratory ensembles. Guy's small orchestra equates to a multinational tentet. ...

Article: Album Review

Barry Guy New Orchestra: Oort-Entropy

by Derek Taylor
October 7, 2005

As a general rule of thumb, the bigger the band, the larger the role of logistics and finances in dictating its survival. In response to just such variables, the London Jazz Composer's Orchestra, one of the most venerable and prolific among large-scale European improvising outfits, underwent a necessary and indefinite hiatus back in 1998. Two years ...