Topic: Evan Parker
When South African exile musician ChrisMcGregor died in May 1990, there was already a respectable, thoughnot entirely representative, discography of his work, both in Europeand in South Africa. Chris fell ill on the tour and died before it had beencompleted. The following ...
Jane painted a radio so real it played. I recently saw two of the most pretentious, flat, and boring shows that dealt with both outsider and jazz-poet genres, one in a theater setting and one at the School of Visual Arts, both ...
The 65-year-old British saxist settles in for an epic run at The Stone starting Thursday, October 1.
Evan Parker's new CD, The Moment's Energy (ECM), finds the 65-year-old British saxist leading his Electro-Acoustic Ensemble, a project that hinges on state-of-the-art real-time sampling. But the funny thing is that Parker has never required gadgetry to produce special effects ...
Londoners are summering at home and buying British.. That's how mission control at Ronnie Scott's interprets the resounding success of BritJazz09, a patriotic fortnight conceived, it can be revealed, as "a bit of a gimmick for a quiet time of ...
This year's reissue of Chris McGregor's 1968 album Very Urgent has been followed by a previously unissued release from a year later, on which the South African pianist's apartheid-exiled group is joined by two UK stars of the time ...
Drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo is coming from a lot farther away than he did for his 2001 visit to New York: After three highly influential decades in England, gigging with Europe's avant-garde elite (Evan Parker, Barry Guy), he resettled in his native ...