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21 quotes by Evan Parker

Evan Parker Background information Birth name Evan Shaw Parker Born (1944-04-05) 5 April 1944 (age 70) Bristol, England Genres Jazz, Free Jazz, Free improvisation Occupation(s) Saxophonist Instruments Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone Associated acts Irene Schweizer, Barry Guy, Cecil Taylor, Anthony Braxton, Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra, Globe Unity Orchestra Evan Parker, Moers Festival 2012 Evan Shaw Parker (born 5 April 1944,...
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Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier... →

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There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very special... →

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So I'm looking to the saxophone as a resource which has its own unique set of possibilities. I'm looking to exploit them and develop them and... →

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A kind of synthesis, but with some elements that perhaps you wouldn't have expected in advance. I always like that when that happens, when... →

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Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the... →

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But I think the record will actually come from tapes that are not yet recorded.

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I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments.

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If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.

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Improvisation is a compositional method.

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There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.

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To speak about notation as the only way that you can guarantee structure of course is already very suspect.

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You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses.

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It's not like, I don't know, if Madonna has a new record out, then everybody from Bangkok to Birmingham knows what its called and can buy it... →

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