This Week: Arts and entertainment picks Oct 13, 2008
In this 30-year reunion concert at the storied Finger Palace, impish pianist Greg Goodman will be the comic foil to EVan Parker, the British avant-gardist who's taken the soprano sax into unimaginable realms of sound. Parker can get three melodic lines going simultaneously, and at the Baldwin grand Goodman is a combination of Cecil Taylor and Harpo Marx. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Zappa's Mothers jazz up festival circuit Jun 24, 2008
Barry Guy Not to be confused with bluesman Buddy Guy, British bassist Barry Guy is a leading figure in the English improvisational scene and his New Orchestra is a veritable who's who of European new jazz, thanks to such sidemen as saxophonist Evan Parker and drummer Phil Lytton. Tonight and Wednesday, the Roundhouse Performance Centre, 8 p.m.. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
The sound of science Nov 21, 2007
As well as the expected world premieres by leading ensembles such as Musikfabrik, the Arditti Quartet and the Evan Parker ensemble, there are club nights in a mill, private hotel-room performances and a Viennese orchestra that makes instruments out of vegetables. Thirty years is a long time to remain contemporary, and there were indications in recent years that the festival was losing its edge. (Guardian Unlimited)
The holy ghost of jazz Jan 31, 2007
Acid-jazz hero Pharoah Sanders resembles him; sax-improv virtuoso Evan Parker has adapted some of his technical innovations; even the late popular postbop and funk saxist Michael Brecker played tributes to Albert Ayler. Non-players wax lyrical about Ayler, too. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
