A big anniversary is celebrated on this recording: Evan Parker and Paul Lytton got to know each other in 1969 and after months of rehear- sals their first performance followed in 1970. It was the time of the jazz avant-garde, which renewed and expanded the traditional ways of playing and the Parker-Lytton Duo was an active part of this process.
“Over the past fifty years, they have each minutely sorted through aesthetics, methods, and protocols, maintaining an ongoing dialogue. The years have yielded a rich diversity of music, complemented by the current recording, the first to feature only tenor saxophone and a jazz kit,” writes the American jazz journalist Bill Shoemaker in the liner notes.
Shoemaker, who supervised the recordings in Chicago, goes on to say: “The dynamic of free improvisation and a long personal history docu- mented on this Chicago studio session bears out what Parker told Bai- ley forty years ago: ‘In practice, the closest I would get to a laboratory situation is working with the people I know best ... the people I’ve played with the longest actually offer me the freest situation to work in.’ On the basis of this unprecedented music, that assessment has stood the test of time.”
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released February 14, 2020
Evan Pakrer: Tenor Saxophone
Paul Lytton: Drums
Recorded March 29, 2019 at Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago by Alex Inglizian. Mixed Summer 2019 by Evan Parker and Matthew Wright. Mastered by Matthew Wright. Cover photo: Caroline Forbes. Band photo: Lauren Deutsch. Graphic design: Paul Bieri. Liner notes: Bill Shoemaker.
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This record has such a magical flow to it, it seems to capture so directly the ups and downs of life, the joy of music and dance, and it's just so damn catchy and fun to listen to as well. Giles