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Barry Guy/Marilyn Crispell/Paul Lytton: Ithaca
by Andrey Henkin
In 1968, three Europeans--pianist Irene Schweizer, bassist Peter Kowald and drummer Pierre Favre--privately released Santana , on the surface a traditional piano trio, but in fact a violent refutation of jazz' most dependable format. Laden with a brutality that may have made Cecil Taylor blanche, Santana was another example of European free improvisation cutting the cord ...
Barry Guy: Symmetries
by Mark Corroto
Bassist Barry Guy has stepped away from his London Jazz Composers Orchestra to perform in small group settings and perform solo. His associations with the old and the new of the avant-garde have him collaborating with among many, Evan Parker and Mats Gustafsson. His solo recordings for bass, date back to 1976 with Statements V-XI For ...
Dividuality
By Barry Guy
Label: Maya
Released: 2001
Track listing: Frondescence; Dividuality; Aulos; Shifting; Scion; Zool; Spinney; Transmute; Calyx
Evan Parker/Barry Guy/Lawrence Casserley: Dividuality
by Mark Corroto
The United Kingdom musicians Evan Parker and Barry Guy have met and collaborated on many a project over the years. From the early days (1960s & 1970s) with the Spontaneous Music Ensemble and London Jazz Composers Orchestra to a myriad of present day projects, they have defined and refined European creative music. In the late 1990s ...
Mats Gustafsson/Barry Guy: Frogging
by Mark Corroto
Spontaneous creative music, i.e. ‘free jazz,’ usually tends toward high-energy output and daredevil antics. The appeal is like that of theater, generated in the immediacy of the moment and sometimes the physicality of the creation. The charms of spontaneous music are often lost in the conversion from ‘live’ event to recorded disc. Nothing though seems lost ...
