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	Evan Parker
		During this period Parker also worked in various of Tony Oxley's groups and it was in 1970 when he formed Incus Records with Bailey and Oxley, the hugely influential label that was one of the few ways of getting the music outside of the capital.
		In 1968 Parker was a member of the Peter Brötzmann Octet that recorded Machine Gun and, apart from other work with Brötzmann he also spent some time in a quartet with Irène Schweizer, Peter Kowald and Pierre Favre.
		This extensive article discusses, among other things, the relationship between improvisation and composition, and various saxophone techniques, including Parker's introduction to circular breathing; it was referred to as a key document by Steve Lake in his notes for the re-issue in 1999 of Monoceros.
	www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk /mparker.html (2113 words)

	Jazz \| All About Jazz
		Evan Parker may be the most formidable saxophonist since John Coltrane.
		Parker has developed the possibilities of unpremeditated music more deeply than almost anyone, creating a personal vocabulary that is simultaneously instantly recognizable and adaptable to the most varied of situations.
		In the Sixties Parker began with the Spontaneous Music Ensemble that included guitarist Derek Bailey, trumpeter Kenny Wheeler, bassist Dave Holland, the legendary drummer John Stevens; all went on to be recognized as being among the foremost exponents of their instruments.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /artists/parker.htm (484 words)

	OkkaDisk: Evan Parker: Chicago Solo
		Parker’s interest in the multiple voice, whether it’s high reflection of a lower one, or another line that seems to be tongued inside a repetition of a prior one, is never merely effect.
		Evan Parker has certainly done his part, both in populating the ranks of the subgenre as well as depopulating vacuums.
		Parker, of course, is one of the preeminent European/British free improvisers, playing with Peter Brötzmann, Derek Bailey, Tony Oxley, John Stevens, and everyone else you could imagine with a hankering for meat pies and unfettered art production.
	www.okkadisk.com /releases/od12017.html (1019 words)

	Evan Parker Scott Petition
		Evan deserves to be in his home,sleep in his bed, play with his toys, be with his Mommy and Daddy, and with the ones who love and miss him dearly.
		Evans biological father stated in a deposition that in April of 2001 he came to the conclusion that he was Evans biological father.
		Evan is only allowed to speak with his psychological parents 4 times each week not to exceed 10 minutes per call during his time away from his family.
	www.petitiononline.com /jonah924/petition.html (1944 words)

	Evan Parker - Biography - AOL Music
		Among Europe's most innovative and intriguing saxophonists, Evan Parker's solos and playing style are distinguished by his creative use of circular breathing and false fingering.
		Parker can generate furious bursts, screeches, bleats, honks, and spiraling lines and phrases and his solo sax work isn't for the squeamish.
		Parker's albums as a leader and his collaborations are all for various foreign labels; they can be obtained through diligent effort and mail order catalogs.
	music.aol.com /artist/evan-parker/7288/biography (352 words)

	Waggish: Evan Parker at the Met
		Evan Parker is the closest thing to a celebrity that the European improvising scene has thrown up, but the high art world has always been much slower to pick up on this less prestigious and less trendy little world that has, in large part, been funded by arts councils rather than by patrons or prizes.
		Both precise, free, controlled and relaxed [sic], Parker's uninterrupted sheets of sound share a special spiritual affinity--in terms of concentration, focus, and openess [sic]--with the photographs of his friend Thomas Struth, whose work is currently the subject of a major mid-career retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum.
		Parker being Parker, it is the forceful, concentrated presence of the man that provides much of the meat of the performance.
	www.waggish.org /2003/02/evan_parker_at_the_met.html (630 words)

	Evan Parker, Patrick Scheyder, The Ayes Have It
		Evan Parker's releases might be conveniently if imperfectly divided into two camps: those documenting regular projects involving musicians who are in the mainstream of free improvisation, and those that record one-off meetings with remarkable musicians whose usual activities are not quite like Parker's.
		Parker and Rogers are joined by Mark Sanders, a percussionist on whom so much praise has already been heaped that it would be redundant to add more, and trombonist Wolter Wierbos.
		He plays with a firmness reminiscent of George Lewis, and works wonderfully with Parker, so that the two are able, with what appears to be complete relaxation, to spin a pair of contrapuntal lines for for many minutes at a time.
	www.rambles.net /parker_ayes01.html (834 words)

	Parker/Casserley
		Evan Parker is a brillant musician who is capable of producing the most beautiful sounds.
		Parker's teasings could frequently be mistaken for the sussuration of water in overhead pipes or, on 'The Central Region' for either mainframe repartee or a Schoenberg intermezzo.
		Evan is a technically stunning player whose contributions to a range of music from the 'abstract' improvisations of Supersession, the robust free jazz of his own trio, his work with kenny Wheeler, Scott Walker, Robert Wyatt etc etc are all marked by his individuality.
	www.touchmusic.org.uk /reviews/parkercasserley.html (2418 words)

	Evan J. Parker
		Evan J. Parker, who used to patch up his own aircraft in mid-flight 46 years ago, was issued his first pilot's license yesterday.
		Now 70, Parker recounted some of the thrills and the chills of his flying career last night as he sat in the spotless apartment he and his wife occupy at 2061 Dewey Ave.
		EVAN J. PARKER was born in Hornell, N.Y. on February 1st, 1885.
	www.earlyaviators.com /eparkeva.htm (693 words)

	The History of Jazz Music. Evan Parker: biography, discography, review, links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The manifesto of Parker's art was The Topography of the Lungs (july 1970), notably the 20-minute Titan Moon and the twelve-minute Dogmeat, for a trio with guitarist Derek Bailey and percussionist Han Bennink.
		Parker was moving towards a music for soundsculptors, not just post-jazz improvisers, but, after all, he had always been a soundsculptor himself.
		Parker added the ethnic element to his electro-acoustic experiments on the live Synergetics: Phonomanie III (september 1993), that mixed Vecchi and Prati with George Lewis, Korean vocalist Sainkho Namchylak, bassist Motoharu Yoshizawa, African percussionist Thebe Lipere, Vietnamese komungo harpist Jin Hi Kim and Carlos Mariani on "luaaneddas" (sort of electronic bagpipes).
	www.scaruffi.com /jazz/eparker.html (498 words)

	Michelle Malkin: PRAYERS FOR EVAN PARKER SCOTT
		Evan, bundled in a blue jacket and sucking on a pacifier, was carried outside by Dawn Scott, who along with her husband, Gene, cared for the child for most of his life.
		Evan, who could be heard wailing inside the home, appeared calm after he was placed in a car seat in a van driven by Hopkins' husband, Michael.
		She argues that the whole tragedy might have been avoided if the judicial system had addressed the claims of Evan's biological father at the very outset instead of waiting until the boy was attached and settled in the loving home of his adoptive parents.
	michellemalkin.com /archives/001242.htm (592 words)

	Ink 19 :: Evan Parker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Evan Parker is an English saxophonist who has been pushing the envelope of jazz for over 30 years.
		The sounds that Parker coaxed and cajoled out of the instrument weren't necessarily pretty or melodic in the standard way those terms are used.
		Parker and the local rhythm section charged the ether one more time, and then it was over.
	www.ink19.com /issues/april2001/liveInk/evanParker.html (566 words)

	Tabling the Elements, Evan Parker
		The thought os such a programme revealing lack of reasoning and motivation, or simple greed, appeals mightily to Evan's sense of the value of personal dignity, the importance of individuals to find and work through their own ideals for living and expression.
		Parker's generation of improvisors - musicians commonly associated with such labels as Incus, FMP, Leo, Soul Note - largely forsook the notion of the studio as instrument; failed to pick up on the extra transmogrifications offered by dub technology or digital innerspace.
		The 'wrong' sort of editing, says Evan, is the kind used in classical post-production ("where there's an edit every ten seconds") and increasingly by Hollywood (when we first met he said he'd been amused by Director Paul Verhoeven's offer to paste a digital erection onto actor Kyle McLachlan in Showgirls).
	www.thewire.co.uk /archive/interviews/evan_parker.html (2141 words)

	Evan Parker / TomArt Ensemble: brot & honig
		Although Parker’s work as a saxophone virtuoso is prolifically documented, it has been rare until now to hear the master of circular-breathing and multiphonics as a leader of a large formation.
		Parker had certainly gained ample experience in big groups such as the London Jazz Composers Orchestra, Chris McGregors Brotherhood of Breath and Globe Unity, but he had hardly ever exposed his own large ensemble concepts.
		Only then did Parker, who up to that moment had modestly integrated himself into the group, assume the role of the composer (in the literal sense of com-ponere: the assembling of existing parts) by establishing, shortly before the concert, a set sequence of the tutti and chamber group passages.
	www.truemuze.de /0003.html (673 words)

	Tempranillo - Evan Parker - Song Listings
		The pairing of legendary soprano saxophonist Evan Parker with Spanish pianist Augusti Fernandez on record is one of those magical dates where everything that happens does so for a reason, and the result clarifies the process without much effort.
		Parker's skeins of cascading arpeggios are employed throughout here, using his circular breathing technique to take the arc out of arpeggios and render the range of chromatic color useless against his barrage of forced air heroics.
		Where Parker advances into the mechanics of his horn, Fernandez speaks out of the tonal facility of his pedals and middle register offering Parker the wide way out into the open with his angular dissonances and bleating song lines.
	www.mp3.com /albums/411045/summary.html (550 words)

	Evan Parker- Packing Heat
		Bird was an innovator and Evan Parker is certainly one of the few players who can transport you inside their mind completely.
		Parker may regard the soprano saxophone as his first instrument, but he is just as remarkable on tenor, although his approach to that horn remains different.
		Evan Parker has had an incalculable influence on the direction of improvised music as a whole and on how it is played.
	www.furious.com /Perfect/evanparker.html (2116 words)

	* Dusted Reviews - Evan Parker & Paul Lytton *
		Parker (and Lytton too for that matter) was in the midst of one of his most intensive investigatory phases, exploring sound and pitch dynamics and differentials with an extreme intellectual curiosity.
		Parker’s splintered soprano tones perforate the alternately clamorous and muzzled textures radiating from Lytton’s kit and both men create quite a bit of atonal racket.
		Parker incorporates pole drum, bullroarer and the curiously titled Lyttonophone, while the instrument’s eponymous inventor also makes use of live electronics in addition to the frequently stringent tonalities of his drum kit.
	www.dustedmagazine.com /reviews/853 (587 words)

	Evan Parker, Waterloo 1985 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The fact that Parker and Rutherford have been playing together a long time shows in their interweaving of melodic lines and their ability to let different combinations of players come to the fore at different moments.
		Parker and Rutherford spend much of their time presenting extended soloistic statements accompanied by the others, alongside the full-blown quartet music.
		Parker, in particular, lets fly a ferocious bout of circular breathing late on in the piece, strongly recalling his solo performances, with which the others interact in a way I have not heard on disc before.
	www.rambles.net /parker_waterloo98.html (583 words)

	Evan Parker - Free Music Downloads, Videos, Lyrics, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Among Europe's most innovative and intriguing saxophonists, Evan Parker's solos and playing style are distinguished by his creative use of circular breathing and false fingering.
		Parker can generate furious bursts, screeches, bleats, honks, and spiraling lines and phrases and his solo sax work isn't for the squeamish.
		Lol Coxhill; Evan Parker's Electro-Acoustic Ensemble; Evan Rapport; Michel Doneda; Frank Gratkowski; Peter Brötzmann; Tim Berne; Joseph Jarman; Henry Threadgill; Alan Skidmore;...
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/card/0,,477000,00.html (164 words)

	CD Review of Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Paul Lytton, Marilyn Crispell - After Appleby on Leo Records @ jazzreview.com
		Parker's playing and interaction with the other musicians reminds me greatly of Roscoe Mitchell although Parker seems to have an inclination to be slightly more curious and a little less deliberate than the Chicago legend.
		Interestingly, Parker is less of a force on this disc.
		On the second track, Parker does not appear at all and the trio that results provides a fine meditation to cool off the emotions that the first track provoked.
	www.jazzreview.com /cdreview.cfm?ID=2554 (802 words)

	Treader Series 1: Evan Parker with Birds, Trio with Interludes, Mark Sanders/Swallow Chase
		Their associations with musicians like saxophonist Evan Parker, trumpeters Wadada Leo Smith and Kenny Wheeler, percussionists Han Bennink and Mark Sanders, as well as pianist Matthew Shipp, seemed increasingly strong on both sides of the equation.
		Parker improvises on both soprano and tenor saxophone with soundscapes largely created from samples birdsong recordings as well as field recordings made by Ashley Wales in locations such as Cornwall and Liskeard.
		These are strong performances by Sanders and Parker, and the Trio recording approaches some of the elements many found most interesting in SHJ recordings such as Amassed and Masses, elements some found missing on The Sweetness of the Water.
	www.jazzitude.com /treaderseries_01.htm (1039 words)

	Amazon.ca: 50th Birthday Concert: Music: Evan Parker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Evan Parker and free improvisation, Dec 6 2001
		Evan Parker's improbable career, which he summarizes in the liner notes to this superb 2-disc live recording, begins at the origins of the European free improv tendency, and intersects virtually everything of importance within that tendency along the way.
		This 2-CD set suggests how perhaps Parker's most impressive achievements are those of the 1990s (which isn't to denigrate his earlier work); that's a decade that saw a stream of remarkable discs from him--_Time Will Tell_, _Most Materiall_, the 1993 duos with Anthony Braxton, _Conic Sections_, _Chicago Solos_, _Imaginary Values_, _Towards the Margins_....
	www.amazon.ca /50th-Birthday-Concert-Evan-Parker/dp/B0000281VZ (548 words)

	EMANEM 4055: EVAN PARKER
		Parker and Rogers are joined by Mark Sanders, a percussionist on whom so much praise has been heaped in these pages that it would be redundant to add more, and trombonist Wolter Wierbos.
		Parker is in fine form, and the trio gets a distinctive character from Paul Rogers' forceful rolling bass -lines and eerie arcos and Jamie Muir's quirky, percussion play that includes toys, springs, and a lot of other unusual metal.
		At times, he displays the uncanny ability to match Parker's serpentine articulations; at other times he stops on a dime, forcing Rogers and Parker to readjust and reassess their improvisatory habits.
	www.emanemdisc.com /E4055.html (1583 words)

	Evan Parker
		Evan Parker was given his first exposure to jazz by his mother, an amateur pianist who played him the music of Fats Waller.
		He began to acquaint himself with the operation of the alto saxophone at age 14; by 16 he had switched his focus to soprano sax, having fallen under the influence of John Coltrane.
		The Ensemble was boiled down to a core of Parker and Stevens by 1967 and the following year Parker himself moved on; his association with Stevens was far from over, however, and the two intermittently performed and recorded together up until a year before Steven's death in 1993.
	www.nndb.com /people/820/000047679 (424 words)

	» Evan Parker
		Evan Parker has written eloquently on free improvisation in general, and on his contributions to the genre in particular.
		As fun as it is to play in the fields of the philosophers, it’s probably more fruitful to link Parker’s solo performances, a key aspect of his rather large oeuvre, to specific, real-world details of time and place and people, as he himself does.
		Parker and his label for permission to post this song.
	destination-out.com /?cat=43 (649 words)

	Shopping with Evan Parker - Monastery Bulletin Interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Evan Parker suggested we should meet up at Ray's Jazz Shop ("In case anyone shows up late").
		We talked about the making of Evan's new solo CD Lines Burnt In Light, London wildlife, squeaky chairs, magic crystals in the moonlight, insect field recordings, deep sea diving, marching in Nikes and voting for Levi's, Bitches' Brew, English vs. Dutch manners in music, philosophical haute couture, another little life and the age of leisure...
		We started the tape recorder just as Evan was reviewing our magazine and considering our stated refusal to position ourselves as "music journalists"...
	www.monastery.nl /bulletin/parker/parker.html (6019 words)

	Evan Parker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Parker's singular language on the soprano saxophone involves the use of circular breathing to unleash a veritable hurricane of sound, often splitting the overtones to give the illusion of several instruments playing at once.
		Parker, however,seems at a loss to describe why musicians such as experimental guitarist Fred Frith are champions of his music, "It does seem that people coming from an art rock background do see a relevance (in my music), but quite why, I've never been sure."
		And although Parker is known for his uncanny ability to react instantly to any shifting musical current, he emphasizes the role the audience also plays in the direction the music takes.
	www.plonsey.com /beanbenders/EvanParker.html (595 words)

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