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Eight soprano saxophone solos. The 2008 solo concert in Whitstable began as an invitation from artist Polly Read and film-maker Neil Henderson to collaborate on a joint work that included a concert in St.Peter's. These recordings are taken mostly from the concert but, as with LINES BURNT IN LIGHT, one piece was recorded before the audience arrived. These are the first recordings in what has become a series of visits to the church, which has perfect acoustics and is just around the corner from where recording wizard Adam Skeaping now lives. Watch this space.
An interesting development in recent times has been the transAtlantic and trans-generational connections being made in the improvisation community. The Emanem recording by Steve Beresford with Okkyung Lee and Peter Evans, and George Lewis' collaboration with GIO are just two recent examples that come to mind. At the forefront of this trend is the duo of Nate Wooley (trumpet & amplifier) and Paul Lytton (percussion & live electronics) bringing two of the most questioning minds in improvised music into dialogue in 2009.
Aki Takase's visit to the North East of England resulted in two new fruitful
encounters which Chris Trent was on hand to document. The duo with alto saxophonist
John Tchicai and the trios with John Edwards (double bass) and Tony Levin (drums)
are augmented by solo pieces all taken from the Music Outside Festival of 2008.
"Creating an arc from disparate, spontaneously generated materials; positing
authenticity that recognises the dynamic between jazz and improvised music, A
WEEK WENT BY confirms Aki Takase’s status as a complete player." -
Bill Shoemaker
PAT THOMAS (piano and synthesizer), CLAYTON THOMAS (double bass), RAYMOND STRID (percussion) recorded in concert at the 2009 Perspectives Festival, Västerås, Sweden.
A sequence of six duo improvisations on tenor saxophone & church organ recorded at St Peter’s, Whitstable in 2009.
A sequence of three solo acoustic guitar improvisations recorded at St Peter’s, Whitstable 2009.
TONY MARSH (percussion) & VERYAN WESTON (church organ). An improvised sequence of eleven duos and four percussion solos recorded at St Peter’s, Whitstable 2009.
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