At a recent concert at London’s Vortex jazz club, Evan Parker described his co-performer for the evening, the trumpeter Peter Evans, as “a genius”, and as “the future”. Having heard him play several times now, including a dizzying solo set at 2010′s Freedom Of The City festival, I let the first description slide without question. The second was more intriguing. The future of what, precisely? The future of jazz? Improvisation? Noise? Sound? The trumpet? His live performances make notions of genre seem inadequate, while attempting to locate his approach on a temporal scale is equally problematic. His new record for the Dancing Wayang label, Beyond Civilised And Primitive, seems to revel in this. Read The rest of this post over at The Liminal.
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