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Evan Parker / September Winds: Short Stories
by Kurt Gottschalk
For British saxophonist Evan Parker, as well as for the horn quintet September Winds, Short Stories is an unexpected record. Parker has excelled in long-form explorations for decades and with September Winds he has focused on site-specific journeys. The band plays in museums, industrial buildings, exposition halls and even a thermal bath in Switzerland. Their first ...
Parker-Schlippenbach-Lytton: America 2003
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nel 2003 il trio composto da Evan Parker, Alexander von Schlippenbach e Paul Lytton ha compiuto un lungo tour degli USA. 18 concerti in trenta giorni, oltre undici mila miglia percorse, quasi quaranta ore di registrazione dalle quali sono tratti i due CD di questo America 2003. La formazione è dettata in parte dal caso, nel ...
America 2003
By Evan Parker
Label: Psi
Released: 2005
Track listing: Rejoicing in their hearts over the journey; Ask to be taken on as a trumpeter (Schlippenbach solo); This blowing of trumpets confused them; What memories of the past were recalled!; Perhaps this was chance; To avoid monotony; No one wanted to be an artist but every man wanted to be paid for his labours; The breath of coldness (Parker solo); Are you strong enough for heavy work; I had a friend among the angels; Down with all those who do not believe in us.
Evan Parker with Birds (for Steve Lacy)
By Evan Parker
Label: Treader
Released: 2005
Track listing: #1, #2, #3, #4.
The Eleventh Hour
By Evan Parker
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Shadow Play; The Eleventh Hour: Part 1-Part 2-Part 3-Part 4-Part 5.
Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble: The Eleventh Hour
by Chris May
With over a decade of serious and engaging electro-acoustic experimentation behind him--some of it with the Electro-Acoustic Ensemble, some of it in other contexts--Evan Parker has produced his most ambitious and perfectly realised work in the genre to date in The Eleventh Hour: a masterpiece of sonic adventure and time travel. Not jazz as we previously ...
Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble: The Eleventh Hour
by John Kelman
Anyone fortunate enough to hear British free jazz icon Evan Parker deliver his solo performance at this year's Ottawa International Jazz Festival got to hear him at his most exposed. While much has been written about his extended approaches on the soprano and tenor saxophones--including circular breathing that allows him to create virtually endless waves of ...
Free Improvisation
by John Eyles
In Britain, in the mid-60s, free improvisation (often just called “improv") developed out of free jazz, eventually becoming a separate and distinct music. Free jazz gradually removed conventional structure -chords, melodic themes, regular rhythm--but free improvisation took their absence as its starting point. Essentially, free improvisation has no rules; in Derek Bailey's words, it is “playing ...
