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Article: Interview

Steve Norton: Debris and Beyond

Read "Steve Norton: Debris and Beyond" reviewed by Gordon Marshall

by Gordon Marshall

Multi-reedist Steve Norton is best known for his work with the 1990s Boston-based band Debris. Debris was an ambitious, exuberant, puzzling band that puzzled together serialism, free jazz and funk. Their music is in equal measure exhilarating and exhausting. It was the combination, in part, that burned Norton out about ten years ago, as ...

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Article: Live Review

Evan Parker/Paul Dunmall Quartet at the Vortex, London

Read "Evan Parker/Paul Dunmall Quartet at the Vortex, London" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe

Evan Parker/Paul Dunmall/Paul Rogers/Tony Levin The Vortex London February 25, 2010 Any opportunity to catch the UK's top tenors Evan Parker and Paul Dunmall in tandem is enough to set the pulse racing, but factor in a rare sally across the Channel by French-based bassist extraordinaire Paul Rogers and ...

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Article: Interview

Greg Kelley: Flesh to Metal

Read "Greg Kelley: Flesh to Metal" reviewed by Gordon Marshall

by Gordon Marshall

Boston trumpeter Greg Kelley takes an atom and constructs a world out of it. Taking his cue from the metallic tubes of his instrument and how they are connected to his mouth, and ultimately his body, his sounds are never wholly disembodied but rather maintain the precise quality of that apparatus that, in his hands, is ...

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Article: Album Review

Ernst Reigseger: Tell Me Everything

Read "Tell Me Everything" reviewed by Kurt Gottschalk

by Kurt Gottschalk

The German label Winter & Winter has a beautiful way of capturing senses of place and preserving them in elegant, corrugated covers. From audio travelogues through Cuba and Trinidad to Sardinian vocal music, the albums feel like books for your ears. Ernst Reijseger, a central figure among the Amsterdam players swimming in the ...

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Article: Album Review

Dave Liebman / Evan Parker / Tony Bianco: Relevance

Read "Relevance" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto

It is hard to imagine that these two saxophone titans, Dave Liebman and Evan Parker, had never met on stage before this 2008 concert at The Vortex in London. Both are innovators with a distinct, almost larger than life sound and they combine forces to make this meeting very special. Back in the 1970s, ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Evan Parker

Jazz Musician of the Day: Evan Parker

All About Jazz is celebrating Evan Parker's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Evan ParkerBorn Bristol, 5 April 1944; Tenor and soprano saxophones. The sources for these notes have come from various places, but in particular from Martin Davidson\'s notes to recent Emanem releases and Evan Parker\'s notes ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Evan Parker: House Full of Floors and SET

Read "Evan Parker: House Full of Floors and SET" reviewed by Gordon Marshall

by Gordon Marshall

House Full of FloorsTzadik2009 SETPsi2009 Not to be missed in Evan Parker's colossal recorded output is the great deal of fun at play in it. House Full of Floors is a case in point. ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Evan Parker with Susan Alcorn and Michael Formanek at The WindUp Space in Bailtimore on April 18th

Evan Parker with Susan Alcorn and Michael Formanek at The WindUp Space in Bailtimore on April 18th

CREATIVE DIFFERENCES presents EVAN PARKER - solo saxophone plus SUSAN ALCORN - pedal steel guitar MICHAEL FORMANEK - double bass EVAN PARKER - saxophones SUNDAY APRIL 18 AT 6PM @ The WindUp Space 12 W.North Ave Baltimore MD thewindupspace.com 410 ...

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Article: Album Review

Agusti Fernandez / Barry Guy: Some Other Place

Read "Some Other Place" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto

Pianist Agusti Fernandez and bassist Barry Guy are two great solo improvising musicians that have a rare talent to cooperate in music making, combining their talents for an ever greater sound. So the question is, why haven't they recorded a duet until now? Spaniard Fernandez is an original voice, perhaps best described as the love child ...

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Article: Live Review

Matthew Shipp at Cafe Oto, London

Read "Matthew Shipp at Cafe Oto, London" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe

Matthew Shipp/Paul Dunmall/John Edwards/Mark Sanders Cafe Oto London February 12, 2010 At first glance the opening night of New York City-based pianist Matthew Shipp's three-day residency at north London's Cafe Oto promised a fire music spectacular. Lined up to appear alongside him were three of the UK's leading improvisors ...


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