Artist: Evan Parker
Genre(s):
Jazz
Discography:
2 X 3 = 5
Year: 1986
Tracks: 1
Birds and Blades
Year:
Tracks: 11
Among Europe's most groundbreaking and intriguing saxophonists, Evan Parker's solos and playing style ar grand by his originative use of circular external respiration and mistaken fingering. Parker tin can sire angered bursts, screeches, bleats, honks, and helical lines and phrases and his solo saxophone go isn't for the dainty. He's one of the few players non only willing but uneasy to march his chemical attraction for late-period John Coltrane. Parker worked with a Coltrane-influenced foursome in Birmingham in the early '60s. Upon resettling in London in 1965, Parker began playing with Spontaneous Music Ensemble. He joined them in 1967 and remained until 1969. Parker met guitarist Derek Bailey spell in the mathematical group, and the duo formed the Music Improvisation Company in 1968. Parker played with them until 1971, and as well began working with the Tony Oxley Sextet in the late '60s. Parker started playing extensively with other European free medicine groups in the '70s, notably the Globe Unity Orchestra, as well as its founder Alexander von Schlippenbach's triplet and quartette. Parker, Bailey, and Oxley co-formed Incus Records in 1970 and continued operating it through and through the '80s. Parker besides played with Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath, other groups with Bailey, and did duo roger Huntington Sessions with John Stevens and Paul Lytton, as well as giving respective solo concerts. Parker's albums as a leader and his collaborations ar all for various foreign labels; they bum be obtained through diligent cause and mail order catalogs. Among his many releases ar Process and Reality (1991), Breaths and Heartbeats (1995), Obliquities (1995), Bush Fire (1997), Here Now (1998), Drawn Inward (1999), Monkey Puzzle (2000), Two Seasons (2000), Alder Brook (2003) and After Appleby (2004). Eleventh Hour, officially credited to the Evan Parker Electo-Acoustic Ensemble, appeared from ECM in 2005.
