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Paal Nilssen-Love: Transforming the Boundaries of Creative Music
by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
He learned to play the drums before he could walk, battled cancer before the age of thirty, and is a driving force behind several of today's most innovative and progressive bands (Atomic, The Thing, Ken Vandermark, Frode Gjerstad and the Peter Brotzmann Tentet) just to name a few. He has taken the drums to new creative ...
Raging Free Jazz Drummer Weasel Walter Upcoming Live Tour Dates in U.S. and Europe
Hyperactive free jazz drummer Weasel Walter will be spreading his intense style of spontaneous musical interaction in many venues across the U.S. and Europe this spring in the company of many notable improvisers like Evan Parker, Peter Evans, Mary Halvorson and Marco Eneidi. His upcoming release out March 15, 2009 is a trio record with West ...
Anthony Braxton: The Complete Arista Recordings
by Clifford Allen
Anthony BraxtonThe Complete Arista RecordingsMosaic2008 Few artists in the realm of improvised music can claim as important or varied a series of recordings as reedman-composer Anthony Braxton did during his contract to Arista Records in the 1970s. With the financial backing provided by what was then an upstart ...
Boustrophedon
By Evan Parker
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Overture; Furrow 1; Furrow 2; Furrow 3; Furrow 4; Furrow 5; Furrow 6; Finale.
Mopomoso featuring Evan Parker Trio at The Vortex in London
by Marcus O'Dair
Evan Parker TrioThe Vortex Jazz clubLondon, EnglandNovember 16, 2008 Fair enough, it's billed as “Mopomoso featuring Evan Parker Trio." But still, a five-hour bill culminating in less than twenty minutes from the man himself would try the stamina of all but the most committed free improv devotees. Thankfully, with ...
Of Music and Brilliance, the Vision of Evan Parker
by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
It may be almost impossible to be involved in free improvisational forms and not be influenced by the compositional genius of Evan Parker. As a saxophonist, he has created one of the most original voices in the history of the instrument and after several decades, remains one of music's most important pioneers.Lloyd Peterson: Today ...
Evan Parker: Boustrophedon
by AAJ Italy Staff
E se alla fine l'annosa diatriba sulla opposizione/dialettica tra composizione e improvvisazione fosse solo frutto di un errore percettivo? Giusto chiederselo allora, quando l’ECM licenziò Composition/Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 & 3 di Roscoe Mitchell, doveroso rinnovare l’interrogativo in occasione dell’uscita del disco gemello di quell’opera straordinaria, Boustrophedon, con Evan Parker a guidare il Transatlantic Art Ensemble ...
Evan Parker's Psi: Fifty Not Out
by John Eyles
With its three latest releases, saxophonist Evan Parker's Psi label has reached the significant milestone of having put out fifty CDs. In their way, the three latest CDs typify the label's output since its first release in late 2001; that output has several strands running through it, and each of these releases continues one strand. Over ...
Evan Parker / The Transatlantic Art Ensemble: Boustrophedon
by Budd Kopman
Saxophonist Evan Parker's marvelous and moving Boustrophedon is a companion piece to saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell's Composition/Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 & 3 (ECM, 2007), recorded live in Munich the night before Mitchell's suite and using the same musicians, The Transatlantic Art Ensemble. Both Parker and Mitchell were commissioned to compose music for a symposium for improvised music, ...
