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Roscoe Mitchell, Evan Parker

Composition/Improvisation Nos 1, 2 & 3

ECM

Album description

Roscoe Mitchell is one of music's innovators, for more than 40 years a restless explorer of new forms, ideas and concepts.

In 1967 he formed the Roscoe Mitchell Art Ensemble which soon metamorphosed into the polystylistic Art Ensemble of Chicago, regarded by many critics as the most important band of the 1970s and 80s: its ECM albums including 'Nice Guys', 'Full Force' and 'Urban Bushmen' won numerous prizes.

A hugely influential jazz musician and saxophonist - one of the most significant of the post-Coltrane era - Mitchell has also made his mark in new composition with numerous works for ensembles of all sizes.

'Composition/Improvisation Nos 1, 2 & 3' creatively juxtaposes Mitchell's structured music and his concept of open form. It also introduces a new band, put together by Mitchell and his English contemporary Evan Parker for a concert at Munich's Muffathalle in September 2004.

This live recording features their epic journey through music of many changing - and surprising - moods, from lyrical episodes to plateaux of intensity.

On the group's American side, Corey Wilkes and Jaribu Shahid are also members of the Art Ensemble of Chicago. Wilkes, Shahid, and Tani Tabbal also play with other Mitchell groups, his Quintet and his Note Factory band.

Craig Taborn also plays in Note Factory and Nils Bultmann and Anders Svanoe have guested with it. Evan Parker is frequently hailed as the most innovative European saxophonist. Philipp Wachsmann, Paul Lytton and Barry Guy have played extensively with him - as on ECM's albums with his Electro-Acoustic Ensemble.

Neil Metcalfe and John Rangecroft were both in John Stevens's Spontaneous Music Ensemble the legendary flagship band of European free improvising.

Personnel: Roscoe Mitchell - (soprano saxophone)
Evan Parker - (soprano and tenor saxophones)
Anders Svanoe - (alto saxophone, clarinet)
John Rangecroft - (clarinet)
Neil Metcalfe - (flute)
Corey Wilkes - (trumpet, flugelhorn)
Nils Bultman - (viola)
Philipp Wachsmann - (violin)
Marcio Mattos - (cello)
Craig Taborn - (piano)
Jaribu Shahid - (double-bass)
Barry Guy - (double-bass)
Tani Tabbal - (drums, percussion)
Paul Lytton - (drums, percussion)