December Video Festival 2014

- Evan Parker, Peter Evans, Charles Evans @ The Stone 9-10-14
- Frode Gjerstad Trio (Gjerstad, Strøm, Nilssen-Love) @ Inage Candy 24 May 2014
- Supersilent @ Dokkhuset (Trondheim) 2014-11-17
- The Thing & Ken Vandermark @ Music Unlimited Wels, Austria, 2014-11-08
- Paal Nilssen-Love, Jim O'Rourke, Lasse Marhaug @ Inage Candy 19 January 2013
- Alan Silva, Mette Rasmussen, Ståle Liavik Solberg @ Dome of Visions, Copenhagen, October 23rd, 2014
- George Russell and the Big Bang Band of 1967 @ Circus in Stockholm (1), !Sweden
What an intro! What a gang! Jump to next video after 29 min.!
- George Russell and the Big Bang Band of 1967 @ Circus in Stockholm (2), Sweden
- Vashti Bunyan & Gareth Dickson @ Jazzhouse, Copenhagen, 18 November, 2014
- Charles Bradley in the backyard of Daptone's House of Soul, featuring Menahan Street Band
- Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings - "White Christmas"

Trance Map for hcmf

You may join Evan Parker in backing Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (hcmf) to award an new commission to be performed at the 2015 festival.

Parker has given the festival limited edition CD-Rs (only 100 copies made, all signed and numbered) of previously unreleased material by Trance Map (Evan Parker, Matt Wright and Toma Gouband).

If you want one of the records, donate a minimum of 20 pounds on IndieGogo.

Evan@70

To mark his 70th year, Evan Parker curates a week of performances at the Vortex and Cafe Oto in London. Starting tonight!

Evan@70 Full Programme:

Monday October 20 – Cafe OTO
Evan Parker + The Necks

Tuesday October 21 – The Vortex
Evan Parker / Chris Corsano / John Edwards (trio)
Evan Parker / Joe McPhee (duo)
Evan Parker / Chris Corsano / Joe McPhee / John Edwards (quartet)

Wednesday October 22 – Cafe OTO
Evan Parker + AMM (John Tilbury & Eddie Prévost)

Thursday October 23 – The Vortex
Evan Parker with Black Top (Pat Thomas & Orphy Robinson)
Evan Parker / John Edwards / Steve Noble

Friday October 24 – Cafe OTO
Evan Parker / John Edwards / John Russell

Saturday October 25 – The Vortex
Trance Map Quartet with Matt Wright computer and turntables/Hannah Marshall cello/Barry Guy bass

Sunday October 26 – Cafe OTO
Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble

The Topography of The Lungs

Cafe Oto/Otoroku celebrates Evan Parker's 70th birthday with a vinyl re-issue of Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, Han Bennink: 'The Topography of The Lungs' (Incus 1979).

Release date: 15 December 2014.

Evan Parker x 2

Evan Parker - Solo Tenor Improvisation at The Kernel Brewery, London - 5/10/2014

Evan Parker (sax), Paul Rogers (b) and Mark Sanders (dr) at Instants Chavirés - 3/10/2014

Subradar meets Evan Parker

Intervju with Evan Parker, for Subradar.no from jonassjovaag on Vimeo.

Portrait of Evan Parker (Silver/Gold)

Portrait of Evan Parker (Silver/Gold) 16mm/B&W/Colour/Sound from neilhenderson on Vimeo.

I have posted this close-up of Evan Parker playing the soprano saxophone before, but it seems to have been on and off the net.

Let´s hope it stays put this time, since it seems like Neil Henderson, who uploaded the video on Vimeo, is the man behind the portrait.

More info on Anglia Ruskin Research Online.

Evan Parker: Awkward

Evan Parker documentary made by Adam Brichto.

Brodsky Quartet: Robert Wyatt Project

The Sounds New festival is happening in Canterbury 2nd - 9th May 2014.

On the programme they have Evan Parker´s 70th birthday concert, Icebreaker doing Brian Eno´s "Apollo" and (stay cool now!) Brodsky Quartet doing a Robert Wyatt Project (May 8th)!

Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Septet

Roulette TV: EVAN PARKER from Roulette Intermedium on Vimeo.

Evan Parker interviewed by Roulette TV in September 2013.

The septet:

Evan Parker, saxophones
George Lewis, trombone and electronics
Ikue Mori, electronics
Ned Rothenberg, clarinets, shakuhachi
Peter Evans, trumpet
Okkyung Lee, cello
Sam Pluta, electronics

More info on Vimeo.

Duos on Rune

I´m a bit late with these two albums on Rune Grammofon, but finally having had time to listen, consider this a recommendation of the two, and check them out yourselves!
And with great music, you are never too early or too late. True?



Evan Parker & Joe McPhee: "What/If/They Both Could Fly" (Rune 2013) is a recording from the Kongsberg Jazz Festival 2012, and you may even watch a few minutes from the concert in the video above.



James Plotkin & Paal Nilssen-Love: "Death Rattle" (Rune 2013) is a wild, raw and fantastic guitar - drum duo album! Just listen to the track "The Skin, The Colour", worth the money by itself!

News from Rune

Two new ones and one upcoming on Rune Grammofon

Evan Parker & Joe McPhee: "What/If/They Both Could Fly":



James Plotkin & Paal Nilssen-Love: "Death":



Bushman´s Revenge: "Thou Shalt Boogie!"

Parker, Formanek, Alcorn live in Baltimore

Evan Parker (sax),  Michael Formanek (b) and Susan Alcorn (pedal steel) live at the Windup Space in Baltimore Maryland (September 29, 2013).

Bleeding Edge Trio

Evan Parker (ts, ss), Okkyung Lee (cello), Peter Evans (tp) at The Stone, NYC - Sept 19 2013.

Thanks to Don Mount´s YouTube channel.

What? No Evan Parker Biography?

I was hoping to read Peter Urpeth´s crowdfunded biography of Evan Parker in not too long.

The book, titled "The Intensity Of Purpose", has been mentioned in the blog a couple of times (see here, and The Wire too), but now it seems like the book failed to reach it´s goal over at Unbound (the publishing platform).

Let´s hope the book gets funded in one way or the other!

In the video: Evan Parker, John Edwards and John Russell at the Vortex (London) (2013).

Evan Parker interviewed in The Quietus

Read "Complicated Sublimity: Evan Parker Interviewed" in The Quietus (17 July).

Let me steal the part on Robert Wyatt:
"The first recording I did with Robert was for [Canadian jazz-poet] Paul Haine's Darn It [a 1994 album recorded with a host of avant-garde luminaries] where I was just in the studio waiting for my turn to record and Robert suggested I play a solo as a coda to the setting he had done of one of Paul's poems. Later he invited me to play on Schleep. Robert loves the studio so much that he slept there while he was making that. I think he had 48 tracks to work with and there must have been many changes of mind as each layer was added. Robert was a friend from the days when we both lived in Twickenham. My two older sons used to call in on their way home from school to see him because he could play them the music they didn't hear at home. Last time I saw him was backstage at Ornette's Meltdown".

The picture of Evan Parker was taken at Moldejazz in 2008, after a concert with Townhouse Orchestra (Parker, Sandell, Håker Flaten, Nilssen-Love).

Wyatt and Stuff Spring Festival 2013

It´s festival season, and here is our spring festival of 2013:

- First out two videos with Evan Parker, John Edwards and John Russell from (the already mentioned) MOPOMOSO tour. More info, and lots of videos on MOPOMOSO´s YouTube.
- John Surman Trio 1975 (full concert). John Surman (bcl,ss,bs), Dieter Feichtner (synthesizer) and Barre Phillips (b).
- Phil Minton and Mick Beck (Sheffield), January 2013.
- Hanne Hukkelberg "My Devils" at Mono (Oslo). Hanne Hukkelberg, Mai Elise Solberg and Ivar Grydeland.
- Hanne Hukkelberg "No Mascara" at Mono (Oslo). Hanne Hukkelberg, Mai Elise Solberg and Ivar Grydeland.
- Michael Francis Duch "Hugh Shrapnel Medley" at Avant Garden (Trondheim), April 2013.

Evan Parker, John Edwards and John Russell

I have already mentioned the UK tour of the free impro group Mopomoso.

In this post you may all enjoy Evan Parker, John Edwards and John Russell in Brighton, filmed by Helen Petts 24 April.

Follow Mopomoso´s YouTube channel and hope for more!

MOdernismPOstMOdernism SO what?

John Russell and the London based free impro group Mopomoso are touring UK this month.
SoundandMusicTV did an interview with Russell on free improvisation. Watch it right here in this blog post!

Keith Tippett is playing one of the concerts. More on the concerts over here.

Tour dates:
Tues 23rd April – Birmingham – Sound Kitchen
Weds 24th April – Brighton – Safehouse
Friday 26th – Oxford – Oxford Improvisers
Saturday 27th – Bristol – Colston Hall
Sunday 28th – Sheffield - Notes & Sounds
Monday 29th – Newcastle - A Better Noise
Tuesday 30th – Manchester - Tubers Music

Parker, Edwards, Prevost and Coxon

Oh my! Please check out Evan Parker (sax), John Edwards (b) and Eddie Prevost (dr) at Cafe Oto, August 2012!
And please note, they play at Cafe Oto again February 5th.

Evan Parker and Eddie Prevost also appear on the album "Cinema" (Fataka 2013), with John Coxon (el. guitar, prepared piano).
Fataka seems like an interesting new record company.