Parker, Evan - Boustrophedon
SKU
28-ECM1873
"Featuring Evan Parker as composer/conductor as well as saxophonist this is one of the most remarkable recordings in the vast discography of the highly-regarded improviser. Recorded live in Munich in 2004 it features a Transatlantic Art Ensemble assembled by UK master-musician Parker and his US contemporary Roscoe Mitchell. In 2007, the first album from this unit playing Mitchell s Composition/Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 & 3 was released to critical acclaim, and Boustrophedon is the companion
volume. Superb playing by all members of the ensemble with particularly astonishing contributions by Parker himself, by Roscoe Mitchell and pianist Craig Taborn. This is the most structured music Parker has ever released. His often beautiful writing has an emotional character somewhere between Gil Evans and Luigi Nono and opens up whole new avenues of possibility for Parker s future music."