Evan Parker, Barry Guy
So It Goes...
LabelMaya RecordingsGenreJazz & Improvisation
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*2025 stock* "Barry Guy and I first met and played together in a version of the Spontaneous Music Ensemble in the days of the legendary Little Theatre Club. The late John Stevens, visionary prophet of the coming music was the key figure at the centre of things who brought us together. “So it goes“ – John often used this figure of speech.
I was reminded of this when I was looking through Samuel Beckett’s Collected Letters, hoping to glean some titles, knowing that Barry would be happy with a Beckett quote. Somewhere on one of the three thousand one hundred and eighty two pages I recall Beckett using the same expression in signing off a letter.
Two of our heroes connected by these three words in this way give us our title, which indeed expresses the very nature of creating music together. “So It Goes.”" - Evan Parker
Release notes
1. (Tenor & Bass) 2. (Soprano & Bass) 3. (Bass solo) 4. (Soprano solo) 5. (Tenor & Bass) Total playing time: 41:00 Recorded 4 February 2023 by [...] - live at The Hot Tin, Faversham UK. mixed and mastered by [...] at FCM Studio, Barcelona. Cover art: "Madison" 1988 by [...], courtesy of the Albert Irvin Estate. Thanks to Mike Eden, Romana Bellinger, Caroline Forbes, Victoria Long at Gimpel Fils, London, Celia Irvin and Priscilla Hashmi. Barry Guy plays exclusively on Thomastik-Infeld bass…
| 1 | So It Goes 1 | 12:13 | |
| 2 | So It Goes 2 | 5:48 | |
| 3 | Grit | 6:47 | |
| 4 | Creek Creak | 5:28 | |
| 5 | So It Goes 3 | 10:42 |
- Albert Irvin
- Cover [Cover Art], Artwork [Cover Art]
- Barry Guy
- Double Bass (1 to 3, 5), Producer [Produced By]
- Henry Dagg
- Engineer [Recording Engineer]
- Jonas Schoder
- Graphic Design
- Evan Parker
- Liner Notes [Text (English)], Soprano Saxophone (2, 4), Tenor Saxophone (1, 5)
- Ferran Conangla
- Mixed By, Mastered By
- Maya Homburger
- Producer [Produced By]
