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	John Stevens
		Stevens' third report, published on 17 April 2003 upheld the claim and explicitly said that collusion leading to the murder of Northern nationalists (and some unionists wrongly throught to be catholic or nationalist) had taken place.
		Stevens was born in Brentford, the son of a tap dancer[?].
		Stevens played alongside a large number of prominent free improvisors in the SME, including Derek Bailey, Peter Kowald[?] and Julie Tippetts[?], but from the 1970s, the make-up of the SME began to settle down to a regular group of Stevens, Nigel Coombes[?] playing violin, and Roger Smith[?] playing guitar.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/jo/John_Stevens.html (692 words)

	John Stevens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		John Stevens was a larger than life character.
		John Stevens was born in 1940 in the western suburbs of London - an area he lived in all his life.
		Stevens continued to experiment with larger groups made up of various mixtures of experienced and trainee musicians with varying success throughout this period.
	efi.group.shef.ac.uk /mstevens.html (3122 words)

	www.jazzweekly.com \| Reviews
		Two of the most fervent of England's first generation free jazz/improvised music experimenters, drummer John Stevens (1940-1994) and alto saxophonist Mike Osborne (b.1941) aren't as well known as they should be for a variety of reasons.
		Stevens, who for 30 odd years until his death directed various versions of the Spontaneous Music Ensemble (SME), one of the seminal experiments in defining BritImprov, was a famously irascible character.
		Meanwhile Stevens' heavy, tub thumping rhythm and fake book bop licks are as far away from the SME as The Plough was from the Barbizon Centre.
	www.jazzweekly.com /reviews/Jstevens_live@.htm (475 words)

	John Stevens, New Cool \| \| Guardian Unlimited Arts
		Stevens was a passionately animated educator and campaigner, as well as a world-class percussionist, and he was tirelessly devoted to the notion that many more people could make music than ever thought they could.
		Stevens played plenty of free improv, but this 1992 set from the Crawley jazz festival finds him in a more straightahead mood, with a young Ed Jones, on tenor, a fledgling Byron Wallen on trumpet and Gary Crosby on bass.
		Stevens' delightful ride-cymbal sound and springy offbeats, and his affection for playfully freeboppish Ornette Coleman-like themes, are all in evidence across five long originals.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /reviews/story/0,11712,1523303,00.html (213 words)

	themusicedge.com :: John Stevens: Jazz Fanatic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		John’s introduction to music began early with his sister teaching him his first song at the age of five.
		John’s training started with the school chorus, but it wasn’t relegated to the voice: “I was in elementary school chorus.
		John has been in the process of recording his forthcoming solo album of standards (Release Date June 28) for Maverick Records, yet that isn’t his first experience in the studio.
	www.themusicedge.com /moxie/news/featartist/john-stevens-jazz-fanatic.shtml (1017 words)

	EMANEM 4117: JOHN STEVENS QUARTET
		Stevens' drumming is marked by his love of Blackwell, Higgins and Elvin, but is unmistakable for anyone else's; it's springy, relaxed, flowing from his exemplary cymbal work, attentive to nuances of sound and melody, never kicking the soloists along bluntly but nonetheless excitable and responsive.
		Stevens was a consummate ambassador to both camps and was especially adept at blurring, sometimes even erasing, the boundaries between the two.
		Stevens seems to lap it all up and spit it back out at us eager listeners, with a diamond geezer's rough'n'ready sparring that starts with a shove and ends with a lung-busting bear hug.
	www.emanemdisc.com /E4117.html (2190 words)

	BBC - Radio 3 - Jazz on 3 - Wolfgang Muthspiel Trio and Tribute to John Stevens
		The gig was a sell out, mainly because Muthspiel's drummer is the great Brian Blade, who is more usually seen on the stages of large concert halls rather than the intimate surroundings of a small club.
		It may have been the superstar drummer who drew them in the first instance, but after the gig all the audience were talking about Muthspiel.
		Stevens was a great instrumentalist and improviser, but he is best remembered as a huge motivating force on the domestic music scene from the late 60s to the early 90s.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio3/jazzon3/pip/v8iv5 (346 words)

	Mutual Benefit: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This set was recorded with John Corbett on trumpet; the three-guitar team of Tim Stone, David Cole, and Nigel Moyse ; Jeff Young on bass and organ; Nick Stevens on bass; and Ron Herman on double bass.
		Stevens' compositions here range from Captain Beefheart -styled syncopated blues-funk tomes (the title track) to extended interval studies ("Out of Order") to extrapolations on jazz-rock tropes that melt both genres into a new improvisational stew ("That's What").
		Stevens knows that to really move something forward you need to touch upon the past and the present.
	www.music.com /release/mutual_benefit/1 (360 words)

	Spontaneous Music Ensemble - Biography - AOL Music
		Spontaneous Music Ensemble (SME) was the brainchild of drummer John Stevens and over the course of its almost 30 year history he was its one constant.
		The personnel of SME varied widely over the years from a duo of Stevens and Watts to a 20-piece orchestra.
		Stevens' premature death in 1994 brought this exciting chapter in the history of improvised music to an unfortunate and early close.
	music.aol.com /artist/spontaneous-music-ensemble/11739/biography (331 words)

	John Stevens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Stevens (1682-1737), immigrant to America, Port Collector at Perth Amboy.
		John Harrington Stevens (1820-1900), considered to be the first settler in the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota
		John Stevens (politician) was the founder of the Pro-Euro Conservative Party
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Stevens (261 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		John Martyn (born Iain David McGeachy on September 11, 1948 in New Malden, Surrey, England) is a British singer-songwriter and guitarist.
		Live At Leeds features Danny Thompson and drummer John Stevens, and is notable not only for the performances given, but the recording quality and incredibly quiet audience for a live recording.
		John continues to write and collaborate with various artists and has recently completed recording a ballad 'Really Gone' with UltanJohn which was released in November '06.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=John_Martyn (734 words)

	The History of Jazz Music. Spontaneous Music Ensemble: biography, discography, review, links
		The Spontaneous Music Ensemble was formed in 1965 by British drummer John Stevens and saxophonist Trevor Watts with the intent of creating a jazz version of the AMM avantgarde collective.
		A quintet with Parker, Bailey, Stevens and Watts was documented on Quintessence 1 (october 1973) and Quintessence 2 (february 1974), released in 1987.
		Stevens only imposed constraints on the improvisers' moves to make sure that they would participate and not alienate each other.
	www.scaruffi.com /jazz/sme.html (522 words)

	EMANEM 4065: FRODE GJERSTAD / JOHN STEVENS / DEREK BAILEY
		John had been given a rock drum set with a big bass drum, and was not too happy with it.
		John left a vast catalogue of recordings behind when he died in 1994, and recordings of his vary varied music have been released after his death.
		Stevens used a full-size kit for this concert in place of the smaller one with which he is usually associated.
	www.emanemdisc.com /E4065.html (2410 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		At this point in his career John Martyn wanted to release a live album however Island Records owner Chris Blackwell thought otherwise and while Island pressed up the album it was sold by mail order direct from John Martyn and people also bought the album by literally walking up to John Martyn's front door.
		John appeared on the tour accompanied by bassist Danny Thompson and on some numbers by drummer John Stevens.
		Live At Leeds is one of those rare albums in that it is a historical document and yet incredibly current and also one, which remains a vital and important part of John Martyn's lengthy career and one that I would certainly recommend to any John Martyn fan old or new.
	www.rockahead.net /reviews/JOHNMARTYN_LEEDS.HTM (330 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Artist Bio
		Bailey's guitar is much like John Cage's prepared piano; both innovations enhanced the respective instrument's percussive possibilities.
		In the early '60s, Bailey played in a trio called Joseph Holbrooke, with drummer Tony Oxley and bassist (and later renowned classical composer) Gavin Bryars.
		In 1966 Bailey moved to London; there, he formed a number of important musical associations with, among others, drummer John Stevens, saxophonist Evan Parker, trumpeter Kenny Wheeler, and bassist Dave Holland.
	music.barnesandnoble.com /search/artistbio.asp?CTR=69872&z=y&btob=, (590 words)

	Sunnyside Records: Artists: Kenny Wheeler
		The same critics, however, have tended to be less vocal in their support for the trio Azimuth (Wheeler, John Taylor and Norma Winstone) whose ECM albums are distinguished by their subtlety and require repeated close listening for full appreciation.
		The album was viewed, at the time of its release, as the most complete statement of Wheeler’s musical intentions, and said one writer: "Garbarek may very well be the trumpeter’s ideal front-line partner...a kind of asceticism informs their playing; when they are heard in tandem its impact is redoubled".
		John Taylor, Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette provide a powerful rhythm section which is sensitive and tasteful while also offering incredible individual power...Highly recommended".
	www.sunnysiderecords.com /artist.php?id=250 (614 words)

	No Fear: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com
		Recorded in May of 1977 and released a year later on Spotlite, No Fear is one of drummer John Stevens ' excellent jazzier sessions.
		No Fear may belong to Stevens' jazzier output (like the Spontaneous Music Ensemble's mid-'60s LP Challenge), but the music allows much freedom to the players and would send any jazz purist screaming bloody murder.
		If an anthology of Stevens' music ever gets put together, the title track of this album needs to be on it.
	www.music.com /release/no_fear/1 (420 words)

	Guy Stevens Drummer - BUST.CO.ZA
		U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens is as popular as ever at home in Alaska amid criticism in the lower 48 states that he used his political clout to enrich himself and his family.
		At the same time that Stevens Institute of Technology was creating the copy for their advertisements that have been placed in the Hoboken Reporter, including stories about addressing environmental...
		The defamation lawsuit filed by Stevens Institute of Technology against the Fund for a Better Waterfront is heading toward its day in court after a recent ruling limiting discovery in the...
	www.bust.co.za /Guy-Stevens-Drummer (682 words)

	CD Baby: GAIL ANN DORSEY: I Used To Be...
		Dorsey landed her first job as an instructor with The London Jazz Centre, a free music improvisation project run by the late British jazz drummer, John Stevens.
		She recalls one of her highlights as being the guest vocalist in the original lineup of the 33-piece Charlie Watts Big Band, drummer for The Rolling Stones.
		John Stevens introduced Gail Ann to his son Richie Stevens, whose soul/funk band Well Red was signed to a major label.
	cdbaby.com /cd/gailanndorsey (844 words)

	Fast Colour Antwerp 1988 : John Stevens : CD Reviews : One Final Note
		In addition to the Spontaneous Music Ensemble, drummer John Stevens had a number of other outlets to exercise his multi-faceted musical vision.
		According to Paul Wilson’s John Stevens discography, Fast Colour was predominantly active (or in any case recorded nearly exclusively) in 1988, and played the same suite of music—a dedication to the late Johnny Dyani—in each appearance.
		Though Stevens is well known for his sensitivity as an accompanist and as a creator of structure within freer settings, it’s remarkable to see that his vision could shape extended suites with the same aplomb.
	www.onefinalnote.com /reviews/s/stevens-john/fast-colour.asp (704 words)

	Flowers For Johnny : Anders Gahnold Trio : CD Reviews : One Final Note
		Of course the "Johnny" in the title is bassist Dyani, and in many ways he provides the central focus of the music.
		Dyani had, by this time, synthesized his kwela roots with the energy of free jazz, and the music here hearkens to the music he was making with another Scandinavian alto player, Frode Gjerstad, and drummer John Stevens in their trio Detail.
		Drummer Matthews, who had played with both Dyani and Abdullah Ibrahim at the time, provides a simmering propulsion to the music.
	www.onefinalnote.com /reviews/g/gahnold-anders/flowers-for-johnny.asp (640 words)

	John Stevens : No Fear - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Recorded in May of 1977 and released a year later on Spotlite, No Fear is one of drummer John Stevens' excellent jazzier sessions.
		Backed by his regular acolytes Trevor Watts and Barry Guy, the leader of the Spontaneous Music Ensemble revels in the hot free jazz licks he and the saxophonist came up with.
		The title track opens the album with a bang, its quick-fire riff throwing the trio into an exhilarating romp -- Guy goes mad permuting the notes of the bassline and stretching the theme over any limit.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,168937,00.html (371 words)

	NEWCITYCHICAGO.COM: Street Smart Chicago
		In the sixties, he and Stevens took interest in non-western sounds, as far afield as Tibet.
		It was to be the kind of thing where everyone joined in, but of course John Lennon and Yoko were allotted twenty minutes to themselves.
		Tsiboe introduced him to other West African drummers and Watts devised serpentine alto melodies to weave through their dense rhythmic framework, his impassioned approach--inspired by the expressionistic innovations of Eric Dolphy and Coleman--transcends parallels in tedious loomwork from the Yorkshire wool mills.
	www.newcitychicago.com /chicago2/655.html (814 words)

	Pierre Favre - Drum Solo Artist
		Like his contemporaries, saxophonist Steve Lacy and trombonist Roswell Rudd, Swiss drummer Pierre Favre played Dixieland before embarking on a career in free jazz.
		In the late '60s, Favre played with saxophonist Peter Brotzmann, drummer John Stevens, and trumpeter Manfred Schoof, among others of note; he also began collaborating with modern classical musicians and avant-gardists from other disciplines.
		Favre has recorded extensively for the ECM label in the '80s and '90s, with artists including vocalist Tamia, classical composer Arvo Part, saxophonist/composer John Surman, and bandoneonist Dino Saluzzi.
	www.drumsoloartist.com /Site/Drummers3/Pierre_Favre.html (202 words)

	MTV News \| For The Record: Quick News On 'Method & Red,' Ashanti, Lil' Flip, George Huff And John Stevens, Slipknot
		Marilyn Manson drummer Ginger Fish fell from his elevated drum riser during a performance in Cologne, Germany, on Friday, and suffered a severe concussion and fractured his wrist and cheekbone.
		The album includes "O Come All Ye Faithful," "Little Drummer Boy," "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer," "Winter Wonderland," "Silver Bells" and "Deck the Halls," along with his cover of Queen's "We are the Champions."...
		The show, which features the man also known as John Lydon interacting with killer bees and leeches, is scheduled to air in the U.K. in November.
	www.mtv.com /news/articles/1491432/20040927/method_man.jhtml?headlines=true (1682 words)

	VH1.com : Trevor Watts/Moire Music... : Biography - Urge Music Downloads
		From the late '50s until the early '60s, he was stationed in Germany, and it was during this time that he first met, and began making music with, trombonist Paul Rutherford and Stevens.
		In early 1968, Watts was back in the SME fold, and this time he and Stevens remained the core of a rotating cast for the next eight years.
		Although Trevor Watts is usually associated with abstract and free music, the '80s and '90s found him leading a number of groups (under the Moiré Music moniker) that focus more on composition and world rhythms.
	www.vh1.com /artists/az/watts_trevor/bio.jhtml (456 words)

	Amazon.com: "Little Theatre Club": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The work with another soprano saxophonist, Trevor Watts, and with drummer John Stevens was recorded at the legendary Little Theatre Club in London.
		John Osborne and John Dexter were the leading actors at the time.
		A jewel of a venue, the Theatre Club was set in the crow's nest of a building in Garrick Yard,...
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Little-Theatre-Club (561 words)

	John Stevens : A Luta Continua - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		Most of these players make repeat performances across the four sessions over these three years.
		This is progressive rock tinged with jazz and free improv in the same way some of Julie Tippett's early work with Keith Tippet's Ovary Lodge was, but Stevens is more strident, employing sometimes three guitar players at one time, as well as a horn section for maximum dynamic and dramatic effect.
		No matter, though, this record smokes, the perfect balance between the trinity of the three elements that have ruled Stevens' music from his earliest days on the scene.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,1574896,00.html (210 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Artist Bio
		He cut his jazz teeth with the hard bopping Dwarf Steps, before leaving to tour and record with reggae stars General Saint and Clint Eastwood.
		Pine went back to the jazz root, studying Sonny Rollins' and John Coltrane's improvising styles while participating in drummer John Stevens' jazz workshops before he became a part-time member of the Charlie Watts Orchestra.
		Pine left to tour with both George Russell and Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers before recording his debut album, Journey to the Urge Within for Antilles.
	music.barnesandnoble.com /search/artistbio.asp?CTR=70905 (558 words)

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