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Article: Album Review

Stefan Keune / Hans Schneider / Achim Kramer: No Comment

Read "No Comment" reviewed by Nic Jones

by Nic Jones

Improvised music is rife with precedents in these early years of the twenty-first century, both on record and otherwise. The one for the trio of saxophone, bass and drums was set under the leadership of Sonny Rollins over half a century ago and since then the line-up has been amply documented on record. Set against those ...

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Article: Profile

Barry Guy: Ode to a Bassist

Read "Barry Guy: Ode to a Bassist" reviewed by A. Henkin

by A. Henkin

In 2007, just in time for bassist Barry Guy's 60th birthday, Intakt Records released Portrait, equal parts compilation, introduction, overview and mere glimpse into the musical world of this instrumentalist, composer and bandleader. There are tracks from several editions of Guy's colossal London Jazz Composers Orchestra (LJCO), pieces done with longstanding collaborators like Evan Parker and ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Derek Bailey and Evan Parker: Incus reissues

Read "Derek Bailey and Evan Parker: Incus reissues" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles

The happy coincidence of solo recordings by guitarist Derek Bailey and saxophonist Evan Parker being reissued in quick succession provides a convenient opportunity to reflect on the association of two of the most influential improvisers of their generation. Bailey and Parker first played together in March 1967, recording as part of a Spontaneous Music Ensemble (SME) ...

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News: Recording

Reel Recordings Presents "Splinters" - Long Lost Britjazz Supersession

Reel Recordings Presents "Splinters" - Long Lost Britjazz Supersession

Reel Recordings is honored to present legendary British saxophonist Trevor Watts with his recording of the all-star collective SPLINTERS. Assembled by drummers John Stevens and Phil Seamen in 1972, SPLINTERS united Stevens and Seamen with tenor giant Tubby Hayes, altoist Trevor Watts, trumpeter Kenny Wheeler, pianist Stan Tracey, and bassist Jeff Clyne. Here is ...

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Article: Album Review

Bob Downes Open Music: Crossing Borders

Read "Crossing Borders" reviewed by Nic Jones

by Nic Jones

Here's another of Reel's exercises in twentieth century tape archaeology. Like earlier efforts, it has the practical effect of sealing another hole in the documented fabric of British jazz and improvised music from the last four decades of that century. It's highly worthwhile too, this labor of love, as on this occasion it yields a program ...

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Article: Music and the Creative Spirit

Paal Nilssen-Love: Transforming the Boundaries of Creative Music

Read "Paal Nilssen-Love: Transforming the Boundaries of Creative Music" reviewed by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.

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 ...

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Corner to Corner + The Longest Night

By John Stevens

Label: Ogun Recordings
Released: 2008
Track listing: CD 1 01. 19.11 - 9:55; 02. 19.44 - 12:44; 03. 20.23 - 21:21; 04. 21.25 - 5:40; 05. 21.47 - 5:11; 06. 22.18 - 6:23; 07. 23.12 - 11:52 CD 2 01. 23.40 - 10:08; 02. Corner to Corner - 14:57; 03. Rubber - 9:22; 04. Angles - 10:16; 05. Incidence - 3:47; 06. Reflections (for Geoff Rigden) - 4:34; 07. Acute - 5:21; 08. Each/Other - 12:06 Tutti i brani sono di John Stevens e Evan Parker

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Article: Album Review

John Stevens - Evan Parker: Corner to Corner + The Longest Night

Read "Corner to Corner + The Longest Night" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Nuova edizione per due pietre miliari della collaborazione tra John Stevens e Evan Parker, registrate a 17 anni di distanza. The Longest Night era uscita a suo tempo in due vinili, considerato un vertice della musica estrema dell’epoca (era il 1976). Corner to Corner è invece del 1993 e precede dunque di poco la scomparsa del ...

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Biosystem

By John Stevens

Label: Psi
Released: 2007
Track listing: 01. Biosystem - 12:46; 02. Mystery - 6:50; 03. Replanted - 14:12; 04. Back To The Beginning for the First Time - 6:50; 05. Another Beginning - 9:57; 06. Restored 11:23; 07. Saved By The Bell - 2:16; 08. The Bell And Beyond - 13:39.

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Article: Album Review

Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Biosystem

Read "Biosystem" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Inciso nel 1977 dallo Spontaneous Music Ensemble (e ripubblicato oggi con 35 minuti d'inediti) questo disco appartiene alla seconda fase della vita del gruppo, quando la presenza di fiati ed ance (Trevor Watts, Kenny Wheeler, Evan Parker) fu sostituita da strumenti a corda: il violino di Nigel Coombes, la chitarra acustica di Roger Smith ed il ...


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