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In case you missed the last one ... Evan Parker & the Transatlantic Art Ensemble , Boustrophedon (ECM) Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra , Song for Chico (Zoho) The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra , Monday Night Live at the Village Vanguard (Planet Arts) Barry Romberg’s Random Access Large Ensemble , Existential Detective (Romhog) Keefe Jackson’s Project Project , Just Like This (Delmark,...
DEREK BAILEY/EVAN PARKER/HAN BENNINK The Topography Of The Lungs Incus This was the first release on Incus Records, a label co-owned by Bailey and Parker for a while, but then they had some kind of nerdy-British-guy spat. Bailey kept the label, but this record went out of print, and he insisted that it not be reissued during his lifetime. No sooner was he in the ground than Parker reissued it on his...
I was disappointed to see so little coverage in the downtown weeklies in Toronto yesterday of the Suoni per il Toronto mini-festival at the Music Gallery this weekend, a spinoff of the Suoni per il Popolo festival in Montreal (a month-long celebration of adventurous and oppositional music). In particular, it's a shame that the rare visit from British saxophone improvising giant Evan Parker (and his...
With its three latest releases, saxophonist Evan Parker's Psi label has reached the significant milestone of having put out fifty CDs. In their way, the three latest CDs typify the label's output since its first release in late 2001; that output has several strands running through it, and each of these releases continues one strand. Over the years Psi has maintained a fine balance between new releases...
The distinction made between jazz and classical music is usually one of rhythm and artistic depth, of improvisation versus composition, of the player being the creator versus the player as interpreter. However, upon deeper reflection, the two musics both have composers and interpreters, with the difference being one of emphasis...
Back to the source... Miles leads in with youthful almost hesitant poignancy then Bird takes over to run double time in the main, all round, over and through this slow ballad theme 'Don't Blame Me.' Tommy Potter holds the line, Duke Jordan chords somewhere in the next room alongside equally sonically discreet Max Roach. After the bravura alto, Miles returns for a brief snatch before they end. The flash...
The follow-up to Roscoe Mitchell's Composition/Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 and 3 (ECM, 2007), Evan Parker's Boustrophedon features the saxophonist/improviser conducting and playing with the Transatlantic Art Ensemble, a collected group of musicians from Europe and the U.S. brought together to perform these two semi-composed works for a Symposium for Improvised Music in Munich. The group, consisting of...
French guitarist Marc Ducret is best known for his collaborations with Tim Berne, but he already has close to a dozen own releases. French pianist Benot Delbecq has played with numerous musicians, including Evan Parker, Franois Houle, with the French Kartet, recently with Poolplayers, and he has of course also released several own CDs. I think Ducret and Delbecq played only once together on a record...
Seven extemporaneous improvisations, played in an afternoon in July 2007, - an outstanding performance of the historical New Yorker pianist Borah Bergman in duo with bassist Giorgio Dini: after the released CDs with Thomas Chapin, Anthony Braxton, Evan Parker, William Parker, Hamid Drake and many other known names of the 'New Stream' of world Jazz, the very first Borah's recording in duo with double...
Seven extemporaneous improvisations, played in an afternoon in July 2007, - an outstanding performance of the historical New Yorker pianist Borah Bergman in duo with bassist Giorgio Dini: after the released CDs with Thomas Chapin, Anthony Braxton, Evan Parker, William Parker, Hamid Drake and many other known names of the 'New Stream' of world Jazz, the very first Borah's recording in duo with double...
Here's the latest from the Bluecoat following this morning's fire... A fire broke out at the Bluecoat in the early hours of the morning of 13 May 2008. The damage appears to be confined to the kitchen, restaurant and offices...
i know this dude was part of Gruppo Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza in the 60s, and has played with AMM (if I'm not mistaken), and so has real credentials under his belt. but i had put off exploring his daunting body of work, party because a lot, most? of it is the kitschy spaghetti western...
Alfred Hause - Best Of (Pid ) Aquiles Baez - Patilla (Cacao Music ) Armen Donelian - Oasis (Sunny Side ) Armen Donelian Trio - Oasis (Sunny Side ) Berardi Jazz Connection - Do It! (Family Affair Distribution SRL ) Bill McHenry / John McNeil - Rediscovery (Sunny Side ) Brian Blade - Seasons Of Change (Verve ) British Core Lovers - British Core Lovers (Phantom Sound & Vision ) Cafres - Barrilete/Hombre...
The delineation between ECM's regular series and New Series has always been relatively clear--improvised music with the regular series, composed music on the New Series. Still, there's an increasingly substantial gray area, occupying a fuzzy space between the two. Reedman Roscoe Mitchell's outstanding Composition/Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 and 3 (ECM, 2007) occupied that gray area, investigating the nexus...
