Evan Parker
Evan Parker
Evan Shaw Parkeris a British free-improvising saxophone player from the European free jazz scene...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionSaxophonist
Date of Birth5 April 1944
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It's not like, I don't know, if Madonna has a new record out, then everybody from Bangkok to Birmingham knows what its called and can buy it the same week. But our stuff is not in that mass market.
conception document formed fully great john sort struggling time
I think it's a great document of John Stevens' originality. At that time he was already much more fully formed in his conception than I was. I was sort of struggling to keep up, and sometimes it's pretty obvious.
But I think the record will actually come from tapes that are not yet recorded.
mind important knows
So what starts is ad hoc and you never know where it's going to lead, so it's important to keep an open mind about those things.
philosophical paradox contradiction
There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.
thinking talking years
The argument we always used to use was that keeping records in the catalog was good for people that were coming new to the music, but I think that was talking over a ten year or fifteen year time span.
air people musical
Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those days.
attitude thinking people
Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language.
thinking doors decision
I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique opened for me.
thinking voice doe
I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments.
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I'd met Roscoe in Europe quite a few times over the years, and we'd say hi and so on, but this was the first time we'd actually played together.
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I've been to the studio several times, and it's not that I'm not happy with what I've got, but each time I come away, I feel that I've learned something that I want to work on.
understanding important needs
Those early steps are very important in understanding the evolution. But in themselves, maybe now you need the later records to understand the significance of the earlier records!
character special archives
There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very special interest in the history of the music and advised Martin Davidson of the existence of these tapes.