COMPANY - TRIOS (2LP)


"A typically eclectic collection of guests joined Derek Bailey for Company Week in 1983: saxophonists Evan Parker and Peter Broetzmann; cellist Ernst Reijseger, mainstay of Dutch new jazz (ICP Orchestra, Clusone Trio); American wind virtuoso J.D.Parran, veteran of the Black Artists' Group and Anthony Davis and Anthony Braxton ensembles. The French bassist Joelle Leandre is equally at home playing free or performing works by Cage and Scelsi, while Vinko Globokar is an acclaimed composer as well as a trombonist of monstrous virtuosity. British electronics pioneer Hugh Davies served time alongside Globokar with Karlheinz Stockhausen. Percussionist Jamie Muir was with Davies on the very first (Music Improvisation) Company outing in 1970, before a brief stint with King Crimson. Is there an ideal number of musicians for free improvisation? Bailey once described playing solo as a "second-rate activity" - though he did it spectacularly well - while at the other end of the spectrum, large improvising ensembles can descend into an unwieldy racket. Three may be a crowd for some, but for Pythagoras it was the perfect number, and trios work surprisingly well in improvised music. Sometimes one instrument takes centre stage, like Parker's circular-breathing soprano at the beginning of Five, but knowing when to lie low, as he does in the brief austere Three, is just as crucial to the success of the whole." (label info)
in stock | UK| 2019| HONEST JON'S | 26.90


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