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Crossing the River

By Evan Parker

Label: Psi
Released: 2006
Track listing: Octet I; Quintet; Trio I; Trio 2; Trio 3; Duo; Octet 2; Octet 3.

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Evan Parker Octet: Crossing the River

Read "Crossing the River" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita

Saxophonist Evan Parker leads this variegated ensemble sojourn into exploratory improvisation, largely within the archetypal framework of Brit-improv. The nine performers feed off one another's ideas, leading to spurious shifts in strategy and combining minimalism, avant chamber motifs, micro-themes and more. Passages containing creaky strings and whimsical flute patterns are interlaced with contrapuntal call and response ...


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