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Evan Parker: The Ayes Have It
by AAJ Staff
Saxophonist Evan Parker may be best known for his trio improv work with bassist Barry Guy and drummer Paul Lytton. However, he steps out on The Ayes Have It for two separate outings with one-off trio and quartet groups dating from 1983 and 1991. The first set ("Ayes") documents a set of 1983 London studio recordings ...
John Butcher with Derek Bailey & Rhodri Davies: Vortices & Angels
by AAJ Staff
Vortices & Angels offers two separate London duos featuring saxophonist John Butcher, and the title of this disc could not be more apt for the music contained within. The “Vortices" part (two pieces; 38 minutes) documents Butcher's performance with iconic free improv guitarist Derek Bailey at the Vortex, a jazz club in north London. This pair ...
London Improvisers Orchestra: The Hearing Continues (2000)
by AAJ Staff
Cooking becomes significantly more complicated when you mix a lot of ingredients. This edition of the London Improvisers Orchestra features 37 musicians, and it's a prodigious combination: five clarinets, six saxophones, three cellos, four drummers, and so forth. The players here represent some of the most talented improvisers on the British scene. The LIO gets together ...
Quatuor Accorde: Angel Gate
by AAJ Staff
Bassist Tony Wren takes a very unassuming leadership role on this free improv date with the spot-assembled Quatuor Accorde. The Angel Gate project was originally conceived and recorded in St. Michael and All Angels Church in London (thus the double entendre of the title). However, technical problems forced the quartet to regroup in a studio for ...
Lol Coxhill: Digswell Duets (1978)
by AAJ Staff
You'll have to forgive me here if I toot Lol Coxhill's horn, because he certainly toots it just fine on his own. Saxophonist Coxhill is an extremely versatile player who has played in settings ranging from punk rock to abstract free improvisation. His sense of melody and time are particularly distinctive, drawing more heavily from the ...
Iskra 1903: Frankfurt 1991
by AAJ Staff
Iskra 1903, for those not in the know, is the name of a poorly-documented improvising trio consisting of trombonist Paul Rutherford, violinist Philipp Wachsmann, and bassist Barry Guy. They played together for nearly two decades, yet only one available recording documents their work together: an eponymous '92 disc on Maya. Emanem to the rescue--for this release, ...
Quatuor Accorde: Angel Gate
by John Eyles
There is an increasingly high profile for improvising string players other than guitarists and double bassists. Slowly but surely, it is developing through the work of players such as Rhodri Davies, Phil Durrant, Susanna Ferrar, Ivor Kallin, Kaffe Matthews, Marcio Mattos, Phil Wachsman and Mark Wastell. Witness the recent Strings with Evan Parker album, and all-string ...
John Butcher: Fixations (14) - Solo Saxophone 1997-2000
by AAJ Staff
Though saxophonist John Butcher is not short on instrumental prowess, his primary assets lie in the realm of ideas. On Fixations, Butcher has rejected conventional jazz thinking (swing, melodicism, harmonic cycles) in favor of creating his own personal language of improvisation. As Butcher puts it in the liner notes, “...improvisation can only make sense when it ...
Veryan Weston/Caroline Kraabel: Five Shadows
by AAJ Staff
The aptly titled Five Shadows documents a series of piano/saxophone duets which often feature more open space than sound. Because of the relatively sparse nature of these improvisations, the notes that are played tend to acquire special meaning. Each of the five tracks on this disc represents a separate performance with its own characteristic acoustics and ...
Strings With Evan Parker: Strings With Evan Parker (1998)
by Glenn Astarita
Strings With Evan Parker is a newly released 3-CD set, presented to us by some of the prime movers and shakers of the British free-jazz, and/or improvised music circuit. And while Parker, performing solely on soprano sax, is not featured on every piece, his commanding presence is felt on the “Double Headed Serpent”, “The Spider’s Web” ...
