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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 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 ...
Evan Parker: Evan Parker with Birds (for Steve Lacy)
by Rex Butters
Someone recently told me that they didn't care for outside music, because to really hear what's going on, you have to stop everything and sit inside it. On Evan Parker with Birds, the sax sounder invites you to sit inside an interdimensional aviary while he joins the conversation around him. Indispensable to those conversations, the duo ...
Parker/Schlippenbach/Lytton: America 2003
by John Eyles
Evan Parker is a member of two long standing trios, the Evan Parker Trio with Barry Guy and Paul Lytton, and the Schlippenbach Trio with Alexander von Schlippenbach and Paul Lovens. On very rare occasions--such as Parker's 50th birthday--all five musicians have gotten together and have even been known to play together as a quintet. I ...
888
By Evan Parker
Label: FMR Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Improv 1; Improv 2; Improv 4; Improv 3; Group Improv.
Out Trios Volume Two
By Evan Parker
Label: Atavistic Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1. Lacerate, 2. Electro, 3. Onslaught, 4. Miss Big Meen
