Guardian Music — Royal Academy of MusicAs a unique improviser, and as a ­composer and arranger on a par with Gil Evans, Kenny Wheeler has been revered since the 1960s. Yet the shy Canadian trumpeter told me five years ago: "I'm not a composer, I'm somebody who tak... more info

Guardian Music — (ACT 9493-2)Heinz Sauer is a giant of an improviser who deserves to be as well-known across Europe as Jan Garbarek. This is a grainily beautiful episode in his relationship with the young pianist Michael Wollny, a sublime partnership that began in 20... more info

Guardian Music — The only thing you could really expect from jazz in the noughties was the unexpectedJazz sounds different now; different from the way it sounded in the century that spawned it. It's not that over the last 10 years musicians have stopped improvising p... more info

Guardian Music — (Intakt)Virtuoso bassist and composer Barry Guy formed his London Jazz Composers Orchestra in the 1970s, with the ambitious objective of framing the then-new improvising languages of pioneers such as Evan Parker and Derek Bailey within large-scale en... more info

Guardian Music — Post-jazz laptop maestro Four Tet looks back at the Noughties with Paul Morley What if there was an award given out for being the British post-jazz musician of the year, or the decade, or come to think of it the century, seeing as how whatever we thi... more info

Destination Out — MONOCEROS 2 MONOCEROS 4 Evan Parker Monoceros Incus : 1978 EP, soprano sax. In the pantheon of saxophone colossi, there is a special place reserved for Evan Parker. Taking late Coltrane as his jumping off point, Parker has expanded the language of th... more info

WFMU's Beware of the Blog — Following up Nat Roe's Evan Parker post and to whet your whistle still further. I was riveted last Friday listening to Bryce's show on WFMU. Chock full of prime Evan Parker. Check it! more info

WFMU's Beware of the Blog — If I weren't so friggin poor, I would quit my job just so I could see the Evan Parker and John Zorn duo tonight. Evan Parker is in the middle of his two week residency at the Stone, John Zorn's... more info

Time Out, London — Past and present Brit masters at Ronnie Scott's, including Courtney Pine, Julian Joseph, Evan Parker and Zoe Rahman more info

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