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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.
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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.
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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
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PAT THOMAS (piano and synthesizer), CLAYTON THOMAS (double bass), RAYMOND STRID (percussion) recorded in concert at the 2009 Perspectives Festival, Västerås, Sweden.
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A sequence of six duo improvisations on tenor saxophone & church organ recorded at St Peter’s, Whitstable in 2009.
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A sequence of three solo acoustic guitar improvisations recorded at St Peter’s, Whitstable 2009.
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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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Percy Pursglove (trumpet), Robbie Robson (trumpet), Jim Rattigan (French horn), Mark Nightingale (trombone), Sarah Williams (bass trombone), Finn Peters (alto saxophone), Robin Fincker (tenor saxophone & clarinet), Hans Koller (electric piano), Bill Frisell (guitar), Dave Whitford (double bass), Jeff Williams (drums), plus Evan Parker (soprano saxophone) on two tracks, play Hans Koller's arrangements of six originals and two jazz standards.
[Hans Koller, piano, composer, arranger, born in Landshut, Germany 1970, resident
in London since 1991.
Very loosely related in selected affinity to the late Austrian saxophonist and artist
Hans Koller, this younger version has played football with clubs such as TSV Oberlauringen
and Dynamo Kebab, has studied ethnomusicology at the School of Oriental and African
Studies in London, and also jazz composition with Mike Gibbs and Bob Brookmeyer.
Over the past decade Hans Koller has played and worked with Steve Lacy, Evan Parker,
Phil Woods, Harry Becket, Kenny Wheeler, Bill Frisell, Steve Swallow, Jeff Williams,
the BBC Big Band, the NDR Big Band, and the WDR Big Band.
He has recorded three big band albums, NEW MEMORIES, LONDON EAR, and
SCENIC ROUTES as well as small group work, including a trio with Paul Clarvis
and Mark Hodgson playing German lullabies, entitled MOND & STERNLEIN
and a trio with Dave Whitford and Gene Calderazzo playing music by Thelonious Monk,
Herbie Nichols and Charlie Mingus.
Hans Koller is part of the Jazz Department at Birmingham Conservatoire where he
teaches composition, arranging, repertoire and jazz history.]
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Continued in psi 2011
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