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At the Plough Recorded live at that most mystical of London's pubs, The Plough, and a rare treat to hear John Stevens. This historic unedited recording captures that intimate live setting as though you might have been sitting over in the next room with the football game going on the screen. Great chance to hear England's most under documented late great founder of the free jazz movement in that country (Spontaneous Music Ensemble) along with a young Paul Rogers and Mike Osborne before he ceased performing. While this may not be studio-quality audio, it is certainly soul-quality music and for that it comes highly recommended. "In the 60s the drummer John Stevens identified the British free jazz with his group Spontaneous Music Ensemble. In the 70s Mike Osborne, Alan Skidmore, and John Surman created unique music in a sax trio without rhythm section. When Stevens met Osborne and the young bassist Paul Rogers at the pub The Plough 1979 something unique also arise, which first now is released on record. John Stevens' playing is close to serial. There are cascades and indicated lines of melodies, the rhythm is secondary. Osborne swings away in free associations and self-willed beautiful improvisations, often high up in the register. But the music is concrete; the ideas materializes with carnal evidence. And it never stands still. The ideas follows one after the other in a high tempo, which opens up the music also for listeners who haven't swore free jazz eternal loyalty." -- Magnus Eriksson 7 tracks in 73:33 minutes :::>>> Tell A Friend About This CD From Drimala If you like this cd, you might also enjoy listening to: Dynamics of the Impromptu (Bailey, Stevens, Watts) Hello Goodbye 1992 (Stevens, Gjerstad, Bailey) Dark Rags (Keith Rowe - Evan Parker) Chicago Solo (Evan Parker) Unity Variations (Evan Parker - Georg Gräwe) Spirit House (Jemeel Moondoc and the Jus Grew) Outcome (Derek Bailey - Steve Lacy) Dark Day (Fred Anderson Quartet)Hunting the Snake (Schlippenbach, Parker, Kowald, Lovens) The Milwaukee Tapes (Fred Anderson Quartet) |
