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Louis Moholo-Moholo/Stan Tracey: Khumbula (Remember)
by John Eyles
There was a ripple of surprise last year when Stan Tracey and Evan Parker's Suspensions and Anticipations was released, on Parker's own Psi label. These eleven free improvisations presented a rarely-seen side of Stan Tracey. True, he had recorded free improvisations with his quartet as early as 1964, but the meeting with Parker took him deeper ...
John Butcher
by John Eyles
This interview was originally published in London Calling in September 2002. Here it is reproduced in full. On one of the hottest days of an indifferent London summer, I was one of about 20 people who sweltered in the basement of 323 in Highgate to hear John Butcher and Phil Minton play a short concert to ...
May 2005: A Good Month
by John Eyles
May was a month of celebration across the capital, largely because of success on the football field. But there were also some notable musical highlights. Here is a précis of the month. Sunday 1st: Red Rose Club Freedom of the City Festival For financial reasons, this year's festival was reduced ...
Clive Bell & Sylvia Hallett: The Geographers
by John Eyles
I suspect that a blindfolded listener dropped anywhere into this album would be unlikely to identify it as a product of the London improvising community. Guesses would most probably centre around ethnographic field recordings made way out east, rather than recordings made in Gateway Studios by two Brits. Clive Bell and Sylvia Hallett have very different ...
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 ...
Stan Tracey Interview
by John Eyles
Often referred to as the Godfather of British jazz, Stan Tracey has had an illustrious career in music spanning over sixty years. Despite his status, Tracey is surprisingly modest, even self deprecating about his achievements, happy to leave it to others to analyse and praise his work. He recently released an album of free playing in ...
Stan Tracey Interview; Freedom of the City; Ornette at 75; New Vortex
by John Eyles
Index Stan Tracey Interview Freedom of the City Festival 2005 Ornette Coleman at 75 New Vortex Opens in May Often referred to as the Godfather of British jazz, Stan Tracey has had an illustrious career in music spanning over sixty years. Despite his status, Tracey is surprisingly modest, even self deprecating about his achievements, ...
Paul Dunmall with Paul Lytton & Stevie Wishart: In Your Shell Like
by John Eyles
Paul Dunmall releases continue to pour out at a prodigious rate--about one a month on his own Duns label and others--and it's difficult to keep track of them all. In addition to his work on saxophones, Dunmall continues to raise the profile of the border bagpipes as an instrument for improvisation. Although at first ...
Various Artists: Freedom of the City 2004 - Small Groups
by John Eyles
Emanem is without equal as a purveyor of improvised music, with a catalogue now numbering over 130 albums. The label's annual Freedom of the City releases (this is the fourth annual “Small Groups double CD release) serve several functions. They provide an excellent record--aural and photographic--of the festival itself, whether or not one attended; they are ...
Veryan Weston/John Edwards/Mark Sanders: Gateway to Vienna
by John Eyles
This double CD pairs a studio recording from December 2003 (the Gateway part) with a May 2002 concert recording of two long improvisations (the Vienna part). When this trio released their previous Emanem CD Mercury Concert in 1999, Veryan Weston was described as “underrated and John Edwards and Mark Sanders were described as “younger, unacclaimed players ...
