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Nigel Coombes

Nigel Coombes, Steve Beresford: White String's Attached (improvised violin and piano duets and a violin solo)

by Vic Albani
November 26, 2014

Con perfetto humour britannico Nigel Coombes, violinista inglese attivo per un buon ventennio dai '70 ai '90 scrisse, nelle note di copertina di questo disco apparso nel 1979, che Beethoven stesso realizzò da solo che pianoforte e violino “suonassero davvero orribilmente insieme." “Strumenti che fondamentalmente si odiano l'un altro e... che fosse ora di finirla di ...

Spontaneous Music Ensemble: New Surfacing 1978 & 1992

by Glenn Astarita
September 13, 2013

This album offers a snapshot of the post-1976 version of the legendary free-jazz improvisational unit, Spontaneous Music Ensemble's (SME) reign as a quartet. Two thirds of the material is derived from performances by the guitar-violin-percussion rendition, captured at a 1978 concert in Newcastle, England. It was previously released on Trio & Triangle (Emanem, 1978) but the ...

Teatime

By Nigel Coombes

Label: Emanem
Released: 2011
Track listing: 1. Irritating Tapping - 1.29; 2. European Improvised Music Sho' 'nuff Turns Me On / Part 1 - 8.34; 3. Part 2 - 1.38; 4. Part 3 - 3.33; 5 Part 4 - 7.54; 6. Deadbeat - 0.34; 7. I Didn't Get Up This Morning / part 1 - 0.54; 8. part 2 - 4.25; 9. part 3 - 2.09; 10. part 4 - 2.34; 11. Graham shows his teeth - 11.19; 12. Low-fi - 6.49.

Gary Todd, Dave Solomon, John Russell, Nigel Coombes, Steve Beresford: Teatime

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 22, 2011

"Non puoi startene sempre in attesa di un compositore che scriva la musica che desideri suonare". Questa frase provocatoria appariva su manifesti e volantini che nel gennaio 1970 a Londra pubblicizzavano un concerto della Music Improvisation Company alla Purcell Room. Il collettivo era formato da Derek Baley, Evan Parker, Jamie Muir, Hugh Davies, Ron Geeson, Tony ...

Free Space / Otherways: Life Amid The Artefacts

by John Eyles
June 9, 2011

Free Space / OtherwaysLife Amid The ArtefactsEmanem2011 (1973, 1984) 2010-11 has been a fruitful period for releases highlighting London improvisation in the mid-1970s, with Teatime, previously only issued on vinyl on Incus, getting its first CD issue, as well as More 74 (Incus, 2010) featuring recently discovered ...

1970s Incus: Old and New

by John Eyles
December 5, 2010

Coincidentally, two recent releases, one a reissue on Emanem, the second an album of previously unissued material on Incus, put the spotlight on the Incus label in the mid 1970s. This was a time when the so-called “second generation of free improvisers" was emerging. At the time, the first generation--including Incus proprietors guitarist Derek Bailey, saxophonist ...

Two To Tangle

By Nigel Coombes

Label: Blue Note
Released: 1997