Studio/Live - Birds And Blades by Barry Guy - Evan Parker - jazzreview.com

13 May

Studio/Live - Birds And Blades by Barry Guy - Evan Parker

Written by Glenn Astarita
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The reverent musical partnership continues to surge onward, as disc 1 features the "Studio" works and disc 2 contains the "Live" portion of the program. On this effort, Evan Parker performs on soprano and tenor saxes, and of course, Barry Guy uses his double bass throughout. Here, the fantastic duo engages in multicolored dialogues, amid Parker’s infamous circular breathing techniques and sinuously executed sound sculptures. And as we might surmise, the intuition displayed during these often probing exercises is simply astonishing. Guy toggles between bowed bass maneuvers during many of the duo’s passages, spanning a macrobiotic outlook combined with counterbalancing statements.

One of the more interesting aspects of this production resides within the artists’ penchant for rendering odd tonalities, amid contrapuntal diatribes, which is perhaps a facet of their organic approach. As themes disappear and resurface in various shapes and fragments. It’s an evolutionary process for sure! Recommended....