I didn't get where I am today by being timid, young man.
If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances. - Evan Parker
If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.
- Evan Parker
In my mind these two instruments speak to me in different ways, and the solo stuff seems to be easier to do on the soprano. - Evan Parker
In my mind these two instruments speak to me in different ways, and the solo stuff seems to be easier to do on the soprano.
In a certain sense, aspects of my solo playing were developed in order to test the theory about how long particular elements could be, as parts of so… - Evan Parker
In a certain sense, aspects of my solo playing were developed in order to test the theory about how long particular elements could be, as parts of so…
Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Ai… - Evan Parker
Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Ai…
You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses. - Evan Parker
You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses.
When you add a period of 25 years between the playing and the listening, then the whole question of meaning gets very complicated. - Evan Parker
When you add a period of 25 years between the playing and the listening, then the whole question of meaning gets very complicated.
I've never been one that thinks that the function of an instrument is to approach the purity of voice or the structure of a beautifully sung line. - Evan Parker
I've never been one that thinks that the function of an instrument is to approach the purity of voice or the structure of a beautifully sung line.
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 interest… - Evan Parker
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 interest…
So in the sense that we were all dealing with that freer approach, yes, it was certainly one of the first contacts, perhaps the first contact, when P… - Evan Parker
So in the sense that we were all dealing with that freer approach, yes, it was certainly one of the first contacts, perhaps the first contact, when P…
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