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Matchless Recordings presents a live concert by Eddie Prévost quartet. This album is composed of two parts. Part 1 was recorded at the Bracknell Jazz Festival on the 3rd of July, 1983. Part 2 was recorded at Porcupine Studios London. The album includ…
Minute Particulars
In 177 pages Eddie Prévost includes twenty-nine thought-provoking essays on ideas, perceptions, reactions and the practices of improvised music, as well as a short index. Reactions to the real world - in particular, the political, corporate and comme…
Dach
"Living," wrote John Cage in 1952, "takes place each instant and that instant is always changing. The wisest thing to do is to open one's ears immediately and hear a sound suddenly before one's thinking has a chance to turn it into something logical,…
Flying dragons
Derek Bailey (guitar) & Mm Xiao-Fen (pipa). Recorded N.Y.C. 1999." I met Derek at Clinton Studio and we started recording. I remember that my playing felt stiff at first, but I told myself to watch, listen and try to a have dialog with him and most i…
The London Concert
All of the music from the 1975 Wigmore Hall (London) concert by this duo then nearing the mid-point of their twenty years of work together. On CD for the first time. Reissue of Incus LP 16 plus 31 minutes of extra material.
Duos, London 2001
Derek Bailey, electric guitar (tracks 1, 2), acoustic guitar (track 3); Alan Wilkinson, baritone saxophone, voice (track 1); Roger Turner, percussion (track 2); Julian Kytasty, bandura, flute (track 3).
Dart drug
Jamie Muir, percussion; Derek Bailey, guitar. Carminative (08.48), I soon learned to know this flower better (07.14), Jara (07.49), Dart drug (25.50). Recorded at Crane Grove, London in August 1981. Cover photograph (reproduced above) by Jamie Muir. …
s/t
Recorded live at Verity's 1972, this CD represents possibly the finest duo performance of Derek Bailey and Han Bennink. Reissue of the rare LP on Incus
Figuring
Derek Bailey, guitar; Barre Phillips, bass. Who's there to know that you passed 'em around (16.01), You'll find my theory is logically sound (16.23), Don't save (10.02), 100 years from today (14.48).Tracks a and b recorded at the Arts Theatre, London…
Solo guitar. Volume 2 (1991)
Recorded on the 22th june 1991 at approximately the times indicated. (Discogs)
Fairly early with postscripts
IMPROVISED GUITAR SOLOS also with: Anthony Brax ton flute & sopranino saxophone (on 3 & 4 only) .Kent Carter: double bass (on 9 & 10 only). John Stevens: percussion (on 9 & 10 only).
The Flirts
As wonderful is his duo with compatriot Cor Fuhler, who, like Prins, has gradually progressed from Bimhuis improv into electronic experimentation. This is a quite befuddling duo (as on Live, Prins utilises electronics, FM modulations and radio; Fuhle…
A Bright Nowhere
Matchless Recordings presents a live concert by Conditions recorded at Gateway Studios Kingston-upon-Thames Surrey England 16th November 2002 and 2nd March 2003.
The album includes six tracks performed by John Edwards - Double Bass, Eddie Prévost - D…
The geographers
"It's a generalisation, but Sylvia Hallett scrapes and Clive Bell blows. Bell specialises in reed or pipe instruments from exotic locations, principally South East Asia. Hallett bought a saw for £2.49, mounted a bicycle wheel on a spindle and also pl…
The First Two Gigs
An improvising quartet featuring four of the finest and most innovative musicians, who have extended the ranges of their respective instruments - piano, saxophones, harp and double bass - into new, uncharted territories. As well as having exceptional…
Solo in Japan
This is a document of one of the solo gigs by the modern sax legend and presumed bearer of the hallowed flame of Black American free jazz when he made his first trip to Japan.
50 ballets
Drums duo with Nicolas Field and Alexandre Babel. Nicolas Field, drummer. Performs music combining notation, improvisation and electronic processes. Studies in jazz, live electronics and composition in Geneva, den Haag and Amsterdam. Solo performance…
Blood lightning 2007
It has been purported that this release on the mighty No Fun imprint finds the estimable C. Spencer Yeh at the very summit of his powers, making his finest, most complete statement yet. As with the other Burning Star Core release from this week (Oper…