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Alternating Currents Live Archive Alternating Currents Live: Making Sounds Musical |
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| Sunday, April 27, at 7 p.m. Woodland Pattern Book Center 720 East Locust Street, Milwaukee $6.00 General/$5.00 Advance tickets and Members Alternating Currents Live presents Evan Parker: solo saxophone Evan Parker began playing saxophone at the age of 14, particularly influenced by the music of Paul Desmond. At 16 he concentrated his studies (after listening to  John Coltrane's recordings) on the soprano saxophone. He moved to London in the mid 1970s, playing in drummer John Stevens' Spontaneous Music Ensemble (SME) with, among others, Kenny Wheeler, Paul Rutherford, and Derek Bailey.In the late 60s he worked regularly with guitarist Derek Bailey as a duo and in the Music Improvisation Company. As a member of the Peter Brötzmann Octet he recorded in the sessions producing the LP Machine Gun in 1968. In the early 70s the Alexander von Schlippenbach trio formed with Evan Parker on reeds and Paul Lovens on percussion. This trio is one of a number of long-term associations that Evan Parker has formed that have continued to grow musically. Another is the Evan Parker/Paul Lytton duo, which expanded into a trio in 1980 with the addition of bassist Barry Guy. In the mid-1990s this trio enlarged into the Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble adding the sound processing capabilities of Philip Wachsmann, Walter Prati and Mario Vecchi. Work with electronic projects has taken up more of Parker's time in the 1990s. Evan Parker has worked with an extremely wide variety of musicians and groups from all musical areas, from Sainkho Namtchylak, George Lewis, Anthony Braxton, Steve Lacy, Barre Phillips, Paul Bley, Wolfgang Fuchs to :zoviet*france. "Parker makes music as if music and not words might be the primary instrument of thinking" —Stuart Broomer, Coda Magazine
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