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November 2007
gig reviews

The Necks
Porpoise Corpus
The Chris Lowe Quintet
Evan Parker, Barry Guy
 Paul Lytton, Peter Evans
Ian Shaw
Radioplay
Fraud
Hih
Zoe Rahman Trio
Robert Mitchell
 and Corey Mwamba
Billy Jenkins and
 Steve Morrison

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November gig reviews by Chris Parker

Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Paul Lytton and Peter Evans

Wednesday 14 November

Evan Parker plays regularly at the club, usually with bassist John Edwards and drummer Tony Marsh, but on this occasion (Wednesday 14) he appeared with a couple of old sparring partners, bassist Barry Guy and drummer Paul Lytton, and an American guest, trumpeter Peter Evans.

The club was packed to capacity, but the silence signified the sort of rapt attentiveness that presages great music, and the quartet did not disappoint: with Parker operating on tenor and Evans on both conventional and pocket trumpet (muted and open), the tone colours available to the band were many and varied, encompassing everything from buzzing urgency (aided by Guy's strident arco work) to hushed murmuring; from thunderous thrash to the quietest whisper and all points in between.

Riding easily on Lytton's rolling, sensitive drums and Guy's spell-binding bass, Parker and Evans produced a seamless improvised conversation, intimate yet fierce and vigorous; this was free improvisation of the first water from four masters of the craft.

 

 

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