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Originally Posted by Steve Reynolds
dus from 1997
on matchless
been discussed quite a bit - but here are some recent thought about the second session:
talk about routinely brilliant (see BoSox thread if you are sprots fan ort just a fan of the *great* Jose Melendez)
Evan Parker & Eddie Prevost - Most Materiall - disc 2
reading the Insterstellar Space thread inspired to listen to both (the Coltrane CD a few days ago)
started with the sceond session (track 2 on disc 2) and this is the session that is really a "jazz" or "free jazz" date in a similar way that the famous Coltrane/Ali duets are - only is 30 years later with so much more gone by - of course this music is based on something different - but the instensities can rival the great Coltrane work - and I love Ali - but Eddie Prevost when he plays a standard lit with this type of fire - is there anyone who can play like this? - maybe bennink if he is intensely serious - some of Han's playing on the great duet recording with Ellery Eskilin appraoch this energy level - but it is still notched below the fire that happens when it is really cranked up (see track 3 - mama)
for those who might think it all just from the kitchen sink
and by their standards, the 2 great current improvisors keep the music focused, direct and without any noodling - especially on this later session where Parker sticks to his jazz horn (the tenor) throughout
one wonders if he (or they) thought of the famous 1967 sessions when recording this masterwork
this one is for Richard Caerleoni
have you heard much from Evan, Richard?
I know you like the great Trane/Ali recording - amaze your brain and listen to the *greatest* improvising saxophonist since the man left this earth those many years ago
I know - some might say he doesn't play with emotion _ i find that hard to fathom - but I think someone said fairly recently - in listening to Evan Parker - when he really gets a groove on - it is the emotion that he males the *listener* feel.
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This review really inspires me to give it another few listens. I acquired it along with a number of other things from a good mate of mine, and somehow it got lost in the shuffle. I remember being quite impressed - I love sax and drum duos, thinking of Braxton/Roach, and Braxton/Cyrille here, as well as the obvious Coltrane/Ali.
Interesting to compare Braxton and Parker, chalk and cheese in some respects. One is committed to composing and the other to total improvisation. One sticks to just two horns, the other to as many reed instruments as were ever invented.
I love both the duo album they did together, and the trio with Rutherford. Particularly the duo though, which is exhilerating and a marvellous listen for the headphones, walking home from the pub after a big feed of Guinness.
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