Parker, Evan - Collective Calls (revisited jubilee)

This recording celebrates a significant anniversary: Evan Parker and Paul Lytton met in 1969, and after months of rehearsals, their first performance followed in 1970. It was a time of jazz avant-garde, which renewed and expanded traditional playing styles, and the Parker-Lytton Duo was an active part of this process. "Over the past fifty years, they have each carefully explored aesthetics, methods, and protocols while maintaining a continuous dialogue. The years have produced a rich and diverse body of music, complemented by the current recording, the first to feature only tenor saxophone and jazz set," writes American jazz journalist Bill Shoemaker in the liner notes. Shoemaker, who supervised the recordings in Chicago, continues: "The dynamics of free improvisation and the long personal history documented in this Chicago studio session reinforce what Parker said to Bailey forty years ago: 'In practice, the closest I can get to a laboratory situation is by working with the people I know best... the people I've played with the longest actually provide me with the freest working situation.' Based on this unprecedented music, that assessment has stood the test of time."