Sant'anna Arresi Quintet By Evan Parker

Sant'anna Arresi Quintet By Evan Parker: Filu ‘E Ferru

by Mark Corroto
December 3, 2015

The differences between British free jazz and American is an often debated subject. Certainly in the 1960s, at the genesis of free playing, the ocean's divide between continents was easily identifiable. The African and African/American tradition of Jazz informed the experiments of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, John Coltrane, and Anthony Braxton, while the UK players like Derek Bailey, Barry Guy, and Evan Parker took cues from modern European music, and developed their own individual language. Their sound could even ...