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50th Birthday Concert

by: Evan Parker

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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 5024792021222
Format: Live
Label: Leo Records UK
Manufacturer: Leo Records UK
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Leo Records UK
Release Date: June 14, 1997
Studio: Leo Records UK

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- Evan Parker and free improvisation
Evan Parker's improbable career, which he summarizes in the liner notes to this superb 2-disc live recording, begins at the origins of the European free improv tendency, and intersects virtually everything of importance within that tendency along the way. The older names were better, weren't they? Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Music Improvisation Company, Iskra 1903, AMM, convey the spirit of this music much more accurately than "The Schlippenbach Trio" or "The Parker/Guy/Lytton" ... Read More

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- Summation of a career
This 2-CD set documents the two longest-standing small-group associations of Evan Parker's career, in a concert recorded live on Parker's 50th birthday. It is thus perhaps the single best place to start for a listener unacquainted with Parker's work. Disc 1 has the Alex von Schlippenbach trio, with Schlippenbach on piano and Paul Lovens on drums--two long tracks find them moving from free-jazz blowouts to lyrical passages; the bridge between the two tracks is one of Parker's patented circular ... Read More

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