collective calls (revisited) (jubilee)

by EVAN PARKER - PAUL LYTTON

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"This recording from Paul Lytton and Evan Parker marks their golden jubilee as musical collaborators and good friends, the title serving as a tip-of-the-hat to their first duo record Collective Calls (Urban) (Two Microphones) which was originally released on Incus in 1972 after they'd already played together for a couple of years. I've spent a good deal of time the last few weeks enjoying both albums and noting similarities and differences, and so it follows that this review is colored by the lense of that exercise. Gone are the electronics and prickly intensity of the 72' sessions, interchanged here with distinctively refined technique and a confederation secured through the blood-and-guts of a half century of collaboration." - Nick Metzger, Free Jazz Blog

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A big anniversary is celebrated on this recording: Evan Parker and Paul Lytton got to know each other in 1969 and after months of rehearsals their first performance followed in 1970. It was the time of the jazz avant-garde, which renewed and expanded the traditional ways of playing and the Parker-Lytton Duo was an active part of this process.

“Over the past fifty years, they have each minutely sorted through aesthetics, methods, and protocols, maintaining an ongoing dialogue. The years have yielded a rich diversity of music, complemented by the current recording, the first to feature only tenor saxophone and a jazz kit,” writes the American jazz journalist Bill Shoemaker in the liner notes.
Shoemaker, who supervised the recordings in Chicago, goes on to say: “The dynamic of free improvisation and a long personal history documented on this Chicago studio session bears out what Parker told Bailey forty years ago: ‘In practice, the closest I would get to a laboratory situation is working with the people I know best … the people I’ve played with the longest actually offer me the freest situation to work in.’ On the basis of this unprecedented music, that assessment has stood the test of time.”

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released February 14, 2020

Evan Parker: Tenor Sax
Paul Lytton: Drums

Recorded March 29, 2019 at Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago by Alex Inglizian. Mixed Summer 2019 by Evan Parker and Matthew Wright. Mastered by Matthew Wright. Cover photo: Caroline Forbes. Band photo: Lauren Deutsch. Graphic design: Paul Bieri. Liner notes: Bill Shoemaker.

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Paul Lytton Belgium

Born in London, 8 March 1947; Drums, percussion, live electronics.

Played in London in the middle 1960s and early 1970s; was a founder member of the London Musicians Coop and the Aachen Musicians Cooperative. Has been building own instruments since 1969, and had an exhibition of the equipment in Wuppertal in 1980. Since 1975 has lived in Belgium. Founded Po Torch ... more

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