Evan Blaker

Viola-ist Mat Maneri has spent a quarter century carving out an artistic niche that marries avant-garde jazz with microtonal music, crafting off-center masterworks like Blue Decco (Thirsty Ear, 2000), Sustain (Thirsty Ear, 2002), and teaming with pianist Lucian Ban on Transylvanian Concert (ECM Records, 2013) and sitting in on a compelling sideman slot on Ches Smith's The Bell (ECM Records, 2016).

“The idea to record our debut album emerged when we met Maestro Evan Christ in Ingolstadt, where we performed two concerts together. We were also honored to perform together with Evan in Israel. Thanks to his suggestion of making the recording with the Cottbus Philharmonic Orchestra, we are now privileged to hold our first album in our hands.

“The idea to record our debut album emerged when we met Maestro Evan Christ in Ingolstadt, where we performed two concerts together. We were also honored to perform together with Evan in Israel. Thanks to his suggestion of making the recording with the Cottbus Philharmonic Orchestra, we are now privileged to hold our first album in our hands.

Evan Hause writes and records in his New Jersey studio when he is not promoting other composers, composing for classical groups or trying to invent new, or perpetuate rare, methods of experimental composition. And he has a rock side.

Gio Evan cambia indirizzo ai luoghi comuni, sovverte il senso delle frasi fatte e dei modi di dire, obbligando il vocabolario alla sfida dell'improbabile. Propone impegnative mescolanze verbali per provare quanti agganci lessicali vivono e aspettano di essere messi nuovamente in vita. Gio Evan usa la scusa delle poesie per spalancare le porte di un'immaginazione non violata e invitarci nel mondo del surreale, dell'incredibile, della meraviglia, della sorpresa. Il palco su cui si muove è asciutto e minimalista, lascia spazio sufficiente al vero protagonista: il pensiero non pensato. Gio Evan non è altro che la movenza creativa della lingua, dove filosofia e gioco e poesia si alleano per esprimere la potenzialità di vivere molteplici vite.

The Eleventh Hour (2005) is an album by the Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble, a project led by the renowned British saxophonist Evan Parker. Known for his pioneering work in free improvisation and electroacoustic music, Parker blends acoustic and electronic elements in this particular project, creating an innovative sound that pushes the boundaries of jazz and avant-garde music.

It’s difficult to say if it was Evan Parker who invited Jacob Anderskov’s trio Kinetics to start this new collaborative project or if the initiative came from the Danish pianist. The doubt results from the permanent equilibrium of forces detected in “Chiasm”: the British saxophonist can be the protagonist, the frontline voice, but the music reflects in every step the most important motivation for Anderskov and his Kinetic partners, Adam Pultz Melbye and Anders Vestergaard: to celebrate the entire evolution of jazz by means of using some particularities of that patrimony through a compositional concept turned to the invention of the future.