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textimagepoem (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
train (evan parker – joe mcphee duo @ the stone 10/7/09) Immediate train caught thought fully full – here there is no buried treasure – no ruinous voice – no mere reading of the score but as naked as the lunch I digested so long ago – devoured – piloted by the dead where the living cover us in stone, worn parch, shoe lace & loafing en fran chise ment. These can...
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Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
This is a long shot, but I'm starting to dip my toes, very gingerly into the murky waters of improvised music courtesy of the Wire Primer ( I know, I know..) and I've ordered "London Concert" that is meant to be the two of them at their peak. Two questions to the assembled big brain collective.. 1)Anyone know why they fell out so spectacularly? The book hints at rumours flying around, but...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
It's important to point out that this is Peter Brotzmann entirely solo on various reeds because, with this particular advocate of the free, the solo context has always amounted to something entirely different to his group work. As an unaccompanied soloist, he has always been an antithesis of {{Evan Parker = 10117}}'s seamless flow on soprano sax in particular, as if Brotzmann's accommodation within...
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textimagepoem (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
the aleatory canal (evan parker w/ matt maneri & alex waterman @ the stone 10/14/09) set 1 aleatory maturation water man man air even in the quiet center regeneration within the main turbulence park here aim a fifth in the book of… matthew land tracts stations of the criss/cross written & dies for resurrection lexicon: as parkers alone evan charlie william dorothy as alla us concentration...
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textimagepoem (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
the duplicity of water (evan parker / richard teitlbaum duo set 2 the stone 10/1/09) aswash in the pedals unwrenched & washed clean-clinging frame edge-soft lines sclatter boltin’ moo-like abirdin’ voices come out of box screen de/lights itself whirblin’ & wordlin’ a long’s anewdl framelit fram soft spitlight caged in its own girth clean day add mirers & mirrors...
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textimagepoem (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
a hard walk (evan parker – john zorn duo @ the stone set 1 10/8/09 – ned rothenberg sits in for last tune) 1. a hard walk to the opening space so full of bodies track down survivors caught here in the obsession with found objects lit surface & sirens come gone no more surrounding ned sits near dressed in black waiting for his turn listening intently what criteria is left where does...
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JazzHQ (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
African Methodist Choir - African Hymns (Arc Music ) Alessandr Magnanini - Someway Still I Do (Phantom ) Bob Baldwin - Collector's Pack (NuGroove ) Bruce Turner - Dirty Bopper (United States Of Distribution LTD. ) Bruce Turner - The Dirty Bopper (United States Of Distribution LTD. ) Caledonia Jazz Band - Street People ( ) Collage - Fifty-Four Minutes Twenty Seconds (Wool ) Collage - Fifty Four Minutes...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
For every artist that has achieved international attention via the exposure of ECM Records, there are countless others who seem to have been lost beneath the cracks. German trumpeter Manfred Schoof, who recorded three superb albums for the ECM-affiliated JAPO label in the 1970s, was a member of the freewheeling Globe Unity Orchestra alongside {{Peter Brotzmann = 5331}}, {{Evan Parker = 10117}}, {{Kenny...
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Just outside (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
My sole Globe Unity LP, issued on Po Torch in 1977 and a rather good one. Side one, "Jahrmarkt" was recorded in '75 and has a stellar cast that includes Evan Parker, Brotzmann, Braxton and the mighty trombone trio of Christmann, Rutherford and Mangelsdorff. It's a bit murky and clunky but, by and large, a decent semi-structured free-for-all. Still, the rewards are to be found on Side B, "Local...
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textimagepoem (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
evidence (evan parker-matt shipp- william parker @the stone 10/10/09 sets 1&2) - for baraka & monk germination & the upper side @ first dis en chant meant chant as to sing a slinking about core all sizes amonkerip(plin’) from solidities to amorphous blues line fragmented & re-defined low action plays diminished pianissimo a rhythmic dynamic reinventing the shuffle as before gesturing...
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textimagepoem (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
crankshaft sans hubris (evan parker solo set 1 the stone 10/1/09) the breath again the breath then somewhere inside the skillside of the skull thru the right ear deep mutterin’ voice then the breathing again & crankshafting the unoiled squeal & a round tome & startling eon almost smell the fumes of eon – template plate plate con temp late plate plate shift saa maah tra mantra...
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LondonJazz (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Congratulations to Chris Batchelor (photographed above at Saalfelden Festival)..... Last night at RIBA in Portland Place in London, he received one of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation ' s Awards for Composers. It's the most prestigious and valuable award for composers in Britain. It is run annually, and three composers receive £45,000 each, with no strings attached. In each of the last three years...
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textimagepoem (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
awards (evan parker improve nite @ the stone set 2 – 10/11/09) people accepted awards (george got one) read corn about corn shouted about the deconstruction of america raced to the racial line again a penny went a long way for a thought back then when thinking seemed freer though free thought was never really free - easy magic lone riders strutted their stuff more easily tho it seemed more difficult...
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textimagepoem (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
a slow drift (evan parker- mark dresser –jerry hemingway- Herb Robertson @ the stone set 2, oct. 4, 2009) a slow drift a certain whiteness in the space a certain pure streaming capturepulting loopool fixed eyes unspoilt texts knowing sawing sorting thru lesions legends allegiance to legion of everyness barrrrr AH cuuuuuda’s kudos strip the AIR of nonessentials lead off conundrums &...