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Barry Guy New Orchestra: Oort-Entropy
by Derek Taylor
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 ...
Barry Guy/Marilyn Crispell/Paul Lytton: Ithaca
by Ollie Bivens
Barry Guy is a British bassist and founder of the London Jazz Composers Orchestra. On his latest album on the Intakt label he, fellow British drummer Paul Lytton and American pianist Marilyn Crispell explore the outer reaches of a style of music - free jazz - that deserves a wider hearing among the American public. Ithaca ...
Barry Guy/Marilyn Crispell/Paul Lytton: Ithaca
by Glenn Astarita
Inspired by two architects and underscored by Irish artist George Vaughn's piece Ithaca, bassist Barry Guy and his bandmates enact various planes and emotive elements on this superb effort. With this outing--and a second trio date for Intakt Records--the trio morphs tumultuous crosscurrents with driving and oddly balanced rhythms. Guy, pianist Marilyn Crispell, and ...
Ithaca
By Barry Guy
Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Fire and Ice 10:21;
Void (for Doris) 6:37;
First Shard 1:50;
Broken Silence 6:34;
Second Shard 1:12;
Ithaca 8:47;
Zinc 3:32;
Third Shard 2:42;
Unfolding 3:55;
Zig Zag 10:08;
Klaglied 4:47.
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
