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Evan Parker/Barry Guy/Lawrence Casserley: Dividuality
by Mark Corroto
The United Kingdom musicians Evan Parker and Barry Guy have met and collaborated on many a project over the years. From the early days (1960s & 1970s) with the Spontaneous Music Ensemble and London Jazz Composers Orchestra to a myriad of present day projects, they have defined and refined European creative music. In the late 1990s ...
Mats Gustafsson/Barry Guy: Frogging
by Mark Corroto
Spontaneous creative music, i.e. ‘free jazz,’ usually tends toward high-energy output and daredevil antics. The appeal is like that of theater, generated in the immediacy of the moment and sometimes the physicality of the creation. The charms of spontaneous music are often lost in the conversion from ‘live’ event to recorded disc. Nothing though seems lost ...
Paul Plimley / Barry Guy: Sensology
by Robert Spencer
Paul Plimley is a remarkable pianist who can play with as much power as any free player can muster (yes, even as much as Cecil Taylor, whom he echoes here on occasion – although I don't think Plimley has played the tremendous marathons of energy that are Taylor's specialty), as well as with surpassing delicacy and ...
Mats Gustafsson / Barry Guy: Frogging
by Robert Spencer
Intriguing. This disc is a counterpart to Obliquities, Guy's 1994 duets with his longtime trio partner Evan Parker. But Mats Gustafsson, who like Parker plays tenor but also baritone sax, flute, fluteophone and French flageolet, is an even more acerbic player than Parker. His playing is even farther removed from conventional reed playing than Guy's more ...
