Chicago Solo
1997 studio album by Evan Parker
Chicago Solo | ||||
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Studio album by Evan Parker | ||||
Released | 1997 | |||
Recorded | November 18, 1995 | |||
Studio | Airwave Studios, Chicago | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 59:20 | |||
Label | Okka Disk | |||
Producer | Evan Parker, John Corbett | |||
Evan Parker chronology | ||||
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Chicago Solo is an album by the British jazz saxophonist Evan Parker, recorded in 1995 and released on Okka Disk. After eight records of solo soprano saxophone, it was his first unaccompanied tenor sax record.[1]
Reception
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In his review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek states: "This is a fascinating and very listening disc of solo improvisations, one that is likely never to find a wide enough audience for its brilliant accomplishment on tenor saxophone."[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz describes the results of his first full programme of tenor playing as "extraordinary, music of intense focus and a fearsome weight and intensity of tone."[3]
Track listing
- All compositions by Evan Parker
- "Chicago Solo [12]" – 1:44
- "Chicago Solo [3]" – 4:40
- "Chicago Solo [4] for Chris McGregor" – 3:18
- "Chicago Solo [5]" – 6:56
- "Chicago Solo [6]" – 3:20
- "Chicago Solo [7]" – 5:13
- "Chicago Solo [8] for Lee Konitz" – 2:57
- "Chicago Solo [9]" – 2:15
- "Chicago Solo [10]" – 4:46
- "Chicago Solo [11] for Mr. Braxton" – 1:44
- "Chicago Solo [13]" – 4:04
- "Chicago Solo [14]" – 5:26
- "Chicago Solo [15]" – 4:23
- "Chicago Solo [16] for George Lewis" – 8:34
Personnel
- Evan Parker – tenor sax
References
- ^ Chicago Solo at Okka Disk
- ^ a b Jurek, Thom. Evan Parker – Chicago Solo: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved July 13, 2015.
- ^ a b Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2002). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (6th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 1156. ISBN 0140515216.
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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
- The Music Improvisation Company 1968–1971 (1969 & 1970)
- The Topography of the Lungs (1970)
- The Music Improvisation Company (1970)
- Collective Calls (Urban) (Two Microphones) (1972)
- Monoceros (1978)
- The Snake Decides (1986)
- Conic Sections (1989)
- The Redwood Session (1995)
- Tempranillo (1995)
- Chicago Solo (1995)
- Toward the Margins (1996)
- Natives and Aliens (1996)
- Drawn Inward (1998)
- Chicago Tenor Duets (1998)
- Foxes Fox (1999)
- Birds and Blades (2002)
- Naan Tso (2004)
- Rex, Wrecks & XXX (2011)
- Either Or And (2013)
- At the Unity Theatre (1975)
- Saxophone Solos (1975)
- The London Concert (1975)
- From Saxophone & Trombone (1980)
- Six of One (1980)
- The Ayes Have It (1983 & 1991)
- Atlanta (1986)
- Three Blokes (1992)
- 50th Birthday Concert (1994)
- McPhee/Parker/Lazro (1995)
- At the Vortex (1996)
- Unity Variations (1998)
- After Appleby (1999)
- Lines Burnt in Light (2001)
- Memory/Vision (2002)
- The Bishop's Move (2003)
- America 2003 (2003)
- The Eleventh Hour (2004)
- Boustrophedon (2004)
- The Moment's Energy (2007)
- Hasselt (2010)
- Dortmund Variations (2010)
- The Bleeding Edge (2010)
- Live at Maya Recordings Festival (2011)
- Rocket Science (2012)
- What/If/They Both Could Fly (2012)
- As the Wind (2012)
- Music for David Mossman (2016)