Evan Parker
Evan Parker is a virtuosic solo improviser born in the UK in 1944. Recording and performing prolifically with many collaborators, Parker was a pivotal figure in the development of European free jazz and free improvisation, and has pioneered or substantially expanded an array of extended techniques.
Evan Parker is a virtuosic solo improviser born in the UK in 1944. Recording and performing prolifically with many collaborators, Parker was a pivotal figure in the development of European free jazz and free improvisation, and has pioneered or substantially expanded an array of extended techniques.
Whitstable solo
Eight soprano saxophone solos. The 2008 solo concert in Whitstable began as an invitation from artist Polly Read and film-maker Neil Henderson to collaborate on a joint work that included a concert in St.Peter's. These recordings are taken mostly from the concert but, as with LINES BURNT IN LIGHT, one piece was recorded before the audience arrived. These are the first recordings in what has become a series of visits to the church, which has perfect acoustics and is just around the corner from wh…
Set
This music was inspired by Lynn Margulis’ serial endosymbiosis theory (SET), and is dedicated to her and her amazing insights into the mechanisms of biological evolution.In inviting Paul Lytton, Barry Guy, Walter Prati, Marco Vecchi, Lawrence Casserley and FURT, I was trading on the pre-existing musical structures that these musicians brought with them: the solo works of Guy, Lytton , Casserley and myself; the duos with Lytton, Guy, Prati and Casserley, the trio with Guy and Lytton, the trio wit…
C-Section
British free jazz phenomenon Evan Parker with electronic and tape noise artist John Wiese in a set of real-time evolving improvisations intended for maximum volume. Vinyl version of the CD released earlier this year, but slightly different containing all the final mixes and edits of the sessions with a new and more intense mastering for the maximum listening experience. C-Section finds density in scarcity - deep, glacial muck bubbles emerge beneath Parker's inhuman circular breathing, only to pl…
House Full Of Floors
Evan Parker is one of the world's greatest saxophone virtuosos, a revolutionary innovator who has almost single handedly changed the language of the instrument. House Full of Floors is the exciting follow up to his incredible studio composition Time Lapse, released to great acclaim on Tzadik in 2006. Working with three of London's most accomplished improvisers, Evan has fashioned a new world of sound in this exciting new recording. Radical soundscapes from one of the most important musical figu…
Abbey Road Duos
Two behemoths of improvisation go head-to-head in the impressive surrounds of Abbey Road Studios for this eight-piece set. Celebrated Brit avant-garde saxophonist Evan Parker takes the lead here, and he doesn't half throw his entire bag of tricks at this one, firing off a vast repetoire of breath articulations while American free jazz figurehead Matthew Shipp does a tremendous job of matching his every move. The opening suite finds the two maestros sizing one another up, only to launch into full…
Saxophone Solos
Reissue of Chronoscope CPE 2002-2. Originally issued on LP 19 and a limited edition cassette. Evan Parker's first solo concert on soprano saxophone. Recorded by Martin Davidson in 1975 at the Unity Theatre in London, at that time the preferred concert venue of the Musicans' Co-operative. Further solo material for the original LP release was recorded by Jost Gebers in the FMP studio in Berlin later that year.
Brewery Tap
Brewery Tap is the duo of free jazz saxophonist Evan Parker & Norwegian bassist Ingebrigt Haker Flaten. The recordings on this disc was recorded live at Oslo Jazzfestival the 13th of August 2007 at the Belleville venue.
Most Materiall
"Double album, double solos of two distinctive musicians, becoming duets in a relatively rare space between solo playing and ensemble. Reed and percussion start at different places, the working through breath, the other pulse of materials being struck, one typically characterised by line, the other by attack, producing in the first pitch configurations, in the second beat patterns (Eddie Prévost doesn't use the specifically pitched mallet instruments). Each player comes with a distinctive sonic …
Two Chapters and an Epilogue
Matchless Recordings presents a live concert by Evan Parker and John Tilbury recorded at Gateway Studios, Kingston-upon-Thames, England on Monday 3rd August 1998. The album includes three tracks performed by Evan Parker - tenor & soprano saxophones and John Tilbury - piano.
"These musicians have chosen to eschew the given media of jazz, from whence Evan Parker received much of his initial inspiration, and the classical world from which John Tilbury received his early and formative training, in o…
s/t
Solo, duo, trio, quartet & octet improvisations by John Edwards (double bass), Sylvia Hallett (violin, voice, sarangi), Marcio Mattos (cello), Neil Metcalfe (flute), Evan Parker (soprano saxophone), John Rangecroft (clarinet), Mark Sanders (percussion), Philipp Wachsmann (violin, electronics). 152 minutes - previously unissued.
Imponderable evidence
Matchless Recordings presents a live concert by Eddie Prévost and Evan Parker recorded at Gateway Studios, Kingston-upon-Thames, London, on November 10th, 2003. The album includes five tracks performed by Evan Parker - tenor saxophone and Eddie Prévost - drums.
Collective calls (urban) (two microphones)
The first published recordings of the duo of saxophonist Evan Parker and drummer Paul Lytton, recorded in London, 1927. Evan Parker, soprano and tenor saxophones, home made instruments, cassette recorder; Paul Lytton, percussion, live electronics, sound effects and noise.
From saxophone & trombone
Originally issued on LP in 1980, From Saxophone & Trombone ought to offer fans of trombonist George Lewis and saxophonist Evan Parker quite a bit to get revved up about. No frills or hidden agendas to be found throughout these five improvisation based works. You name it—they cover it! The duo explores various harmonic twists and turns amid microtonal sounds and ethereal soundscapes. They dig deep from within while also displaying the utmost improvisational acumen, as most of us would come to exp…
Hook, drift & shuffle
Evan Parker (soprano & tenor saxophones), George Lewis (trombone, electronics), Barry Guy (double bass, electronics), Paul Lytton (percussion, electronics). A 1983 Brussels concert featuring three improvisations by this electro-acoustic quartet. Reissue of Incus LP 45.
The London Concert
All of the music from the 1975 Wigmore Hall (London) concert by this duo then nearing the mid-point of their twenty years of work together. On CD for the first time. Reissue of Incus LP 16 plus 31 minutes of extra material.