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October 2006
gig reviews

Herb Robertson's NY Downtown Allstars
Brian Abrahams
Nois4
Chris Laurence Quartet
Finn Peters
Centre Line
Barb Jungr
Prevost, Wilkinson, Williamson
Eddie Parker's Mr Vertigo
Aisling Stephenson
Kevin Davy
Evan Parker
Basil Hodge
Turner, Grenadier, Ballard

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October 2006 gig reviews by Chris Parker

Eddie Parker's Mr Vertigo

Friday 20

Eddie Parker's Mr Vertigo may, in their leader's semi-ironic words, 'play the same music in the same way' each time they appear at the club, but it's lively, cheerfully accessible music impeccably performed by Parker's various flutes, tenor player Julian Nicholas, pianist Pete Saberton, guitarist John Parricelli and drummer Mike Pickering (with, on this occasion, bassist Thad Kelly, deputising for Steve Watts).

His tunes inspired by everything from the works of Michel Foucault (Pickering echoing the rhythm of an opening paragraph with a notated drum solo) to his desire for world peace, Parker is a skilful and enthusiastic leader/composer and an absorbing soloist, and his music is sensitively interpreted by the strikingly warm, warbling tenor of Nicholas (a mysteriously underrated figure whose profile should be similar to that of, say, Julian ArgÇelles or Iain Ballamy), Saberton's occasionally idiosyncratic but consistently apt solos, and Parricelli's intense, carefully structured contributions. But you needn't take my word for it; a typical Vortex set can be downloaded from Parker's website .

 

 

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