The Evan Parker

Evan Parker - Whitstable Solo (2010) {psi records}
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© 2010 psi records | psi 10.01
Jazz / Free Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Saxophone

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 where recording wizard Adam Skeaping now lives. Watch this space.

Evan Parker, Derek Bailey & Han Bennink - The Topography Of The Lungs (1970) {Psi Records 2006}
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© 2006 Psi Records / Incus | psi 06.05
Jazz / Modern Jazz / Free Improvisation / Saxophone

Improvisations with Han Bennink and Derek Bailey in 1970. The monumental first release on the Incus label formed by Parker, Bailey and Tony Oxley, augmented here by nine minutes of material from the same session. The Topography of the Lungs is finally re-issued. Considered by many to be a key recording in the history of improvised music, it brought together three musicians who then continued to develop the genre in the intervening three decades: EVAN PARKER (soprano & tenor saxophones), DEREK BAILEY (guitar) and HAN BENNINK (percussion, etc). Reissue of LP 1 plus over 9 minutes of extra material from the same 1970 session.

Mark Nauseef, Ikue Mori, Evan Parker, Bill Laswell - Near Nadir (2011) {Tzadik}
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© 2011 Tzadik | TZ 7636
Jazz / Free Improvisation / Experimental / Electronica

Tzadik is proud to present this historic meeting of four major figures in the new music pantheon, each a master improviser and groundbreaking instrumentalist in their own right. Their work together is symbiotic, telepathic—the music powerful and sensitive, sustaining a hypnotic mood with great attention to detail and subtle nuance. Mixed to perfection by Bill Laswell, this is a landmark recording of electro-acoustic improvisation featuring four pioneers of the genre. Mindblowing!

Alexander von Schlippenbach Trio - Gold Is Where You Find It (2008) (ft. Evan Parker) {Intakt}
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© 2008 Intakt Records | Intakt CD 143
Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Free Jazz

35 years after the first album of the Schlippenbach trio and after numerous releases of live recordings, Schlippenbach-Parker-Lovens now present a studio recording of particular quality and atmosphere. GOLD IS WHERE YOU FIND IT shows that after years of co-operation and intensive common musical experience the Schlippenbach trio has reached its climax.

Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Paul Lytton - Live At Maya Recordings Festival (2013) {NoBusiness Records}
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© 2013 NoBusiness Records | NBCD 55
Jazz / Free Improvisation / Avant-Garde Jazz

After twenty one recordings there may not be too much more to say about the superlative English threesome of saxophonist Evan Parker, bassist Barry Guy and drummer Paul Lytton. Some 30 years on since their debut Tracks (Incus, 1983), they converse in a language entirely of their own making, which relies on a staggering density of ideas, chops to burn and a preternatural responsiveness. Live At Maya Recordings Festival, captured at Winterthur, Switzerland in 2011 forms another top notch entry into an already distinguished discography.

Evan Parker, Paul Rutherford, Barry Guy, John Stevens - 4,4,4, (1993) {Konnex}
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© 1993 Konex | KCD 5049
Jazz / Free Jazz / Modern Creative / Avant-Garde Jazz

This was one of the stranger recordings issued by Konnex at the time, in that the band listed as playing 4,4,4 (in five parts) isn't the only band on the record. After the quartet's five selections are played through, a new band consisting of Stevens with violinist Nigel Coombes and guitarist Roger Smith improvises "Surfaces" for over 23 minutes! There is no information on the front cover to denote such a thing. Oh well, those Brits. As for the seasoned quartet on "4,4,4," strange, haunting, and beautiful are the words that describe the result of their latest collaboration.

Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble - The Eleventh Hour (2005) {ECM 1924}
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© 2005 ECM Records | ECM 1924
Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Electro-Acoustic / Conceptual Art

Eleventh Hour is the fourth offering by Evan Parker's Electro-Acoustic Ensemble on ECM. The ensemble here numbers 11 members, six of whom are electronic sound sculptors and sound processors, with the remainder – including Philipp Wachsmann and Paul Lytton – are free jazz and new music improvisers. The title piece, in five parts, was commissioned by the Contemporary Arts Center in Glasgow, where the album was recorded.

Evan Parker - Synergetics - Phonomanie III (1996) [2CD] {Leo Records}
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© 1996 Leo Records | CD LR 239/240
Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Free Improvisation / Saxophone

Wow! is the only word that can be used to adequately describe the listener's first reaction to this music, all recorded at the third Synergetics festival in 1993 under the direction of British free music and saxophone god Evan Parker. Parker used familiar partners such as American trombone legend George Lewis, Korean vocal enigma Sainkho Namchylak, Marco "Bill" Vecchi, and Walter Prati on various electronics. But in addition he recruited the truly astonishing bass and vocal talents of Motoharu Yoshizawa. Carlos Mariani plays the luaaneddas, an instrument that sounds at first like the bagpipes is here enhanced by electronic looping, but is played by the use of circular breathing (in and out breath occur simultaneously).

Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble - Warszawa 2019 (2021) {Fundacja Sluchaj}
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© 2021 Fundacja Słuchaj & Polish Music Council Foundation
Jazz / Electroacoustic / Avant-Garde Jazz / Saxophone

The ElectroAcoustic Ensemble was formed in 1990 as a sextet to explore the possibilities of real-time signal processing in an improvising context. and shortly became an opus magnum ensemble in the whole of Evan Parker's musical biography. Most of the CDs documenting the development of this exciting large ensemble were released by the legendary ECM label. The last time when EAE brought us its new CD titled Hasselt was nine years ago (PSI). Now, after this very long period, we proudly announce the brand new Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble is coming! Beautifully recorded two years ago on the Warsaw-based festival Ad Libitum by Kuba Sosulski and beautifully mixed by Fil Gomez and Evan Parker himself in the middle of 2020 at Arcobarco, Ramsgate, UK. So let's listen and enjoying the ten pieces ensemble led by one of the greatest musicians in the world. Here comes WARSZAWA 2019.

Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Paul Lytton - Zafiro (2006) {Maya Recordings}
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© 2006 Maya Recordings | MCD0602
Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Free Improvisation

Evan Parker, Barry Guy and Paul Lytton meet in Barcelona. A trio concert in the «Auditorium» is on the agenda, the first one for months. «We hadn't seen each other for quite a while and were really looking forward to it», Barry Guy remembers. That their reunion should take place in Barcelona, was as obvious as the intention to record the evening's concert. However, nobody knew beforehand that sound engineer Ferran Conangla would hand over a glittering uncut gem at the end of the day from which a sapphire - Zafiro would develop.