The Evan Parker

Schlippenbach Trio - Bauhaus Dessau (2010) {Intakt}
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© 2010 Intakt Records | CD 183
Jazz / Free Jazz / Free Improvisation

These jazz and improvisation pioneers have performed together within various ensembles as leaders and members of numerous band aggregations for decades. Yet, pianist Alexander Von Schlippenbach’s Trio has triumphantly withstood the sands of time, spanning four decades. And the artists intuitive performances are in alignment with the stars, here on this comprehensive outing captured live in Bauhaus Dessau, Germany.

That pianist Paul Bley, reedman Evan Parker, and bassist Barre Phillips had never played as a group before flipping the coin of Time Will Tell matters little. Whether you call heads or tails, you win. The fact that Phillips had played with the two who hadn’t emerges through the sensitive approach he elicits from each. By the same token, one cannot simply say that he tempers what we might be expecting from two powerhouses of the free improv universe. Rather, he spotlights the tenderness already flowing within.

Townhouse Orchestra - Belle Ville (2008) {2CD Set, Clean Feed CF125CD}
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© 2008 Clean Feed | CF125CD
Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Saxophone

Something so special as this European project would need to have a future. After a first recording with the joined forces of British legendary saxophonist Evan Parker and the very special Scandinavian rhythm section of Sten Sandell (piano), Ingebrigt Haker Flaten (bass) and Paal Nilssen-Love (drums), here is the double CD that confirms the superband status of the Townhouse Orchestra. Not an orchestra, in spite of the name, but a quartet, truth is it sometimes sound as such. The extensive techniques used by the performers multiply the possibilities of each instrument, opening up the perspectives of the music played.

Pianist John Escreet, hailed by Time Out London as a “transatlantic jazz genius,” continues his artistic ascent with the bold, exploratory new album Seismic Shift (Whirlwind Recordings). It is Escreet’s ninth album as a leader but his first at the helm of a trio, and also one of the first to see release since his move to the West Coast in early 2020.

Coming out of the fertile London jazz and experimental scenes, Krononaut is a richly textured new ensemble helmed by guitarist /producer Leo Abrahams (Brian Eno, Imogen Heap, Jon Hopkins) and drummer Martin France (Nils Petter Molvær, Evan Parker). The album features an esteemed group of collaborators and a sonic footprint that channels spectral ambiance, ‘fourth world’ expansions and a gorgeous slow-boiling pointillism.

Alexander von Schlippenbach - Live In Berlin (2010) [DVD-9]
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© 2010 Jazzwerkstatt | JW 2003
Jazz / Free Jazz / Avant-garde Jazz

Wide screen DVD of 2008 recordings from the great European free improv pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach. First are four tracks of von Schlippenbach performing his own compositions solo, then 4 tracks in a trio with Evan Parker & Paul Lovens, performing compositions from each musician.