Archive for the ‘Brief Encounters’ Category
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Tête-À-Tête Three
29 Mar 2017Initially this project was to be a series of duet recordings in which I was not always musically involved. One…
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The Great Rift • Hornby Island 1992
24 Aug 2016Any number of people, mostly friends and the odd critic or two, have read my memoir Rant & Dawdle, glanced…
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Tête-À-Tête Two
25 Jul 2016For the second post in this series I return to my own music — a duet with guitarist Lloyd Garber.…
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Tête-À-Tête One
01 Apr 2016Improvising is a difficult art to master, if indeed it’s possible to “master” this form at all. My preference would…
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Paul Bley • When Will The Blues Leave
08 Jan 2016PAUL BLEY (November 10th, 1932 – January 3rd, 2016) Bristol 1956 In the back room of the Swan Hotel on…
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This Is Our Music
12 Jun 2015Ornette Coleman • March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015 You cannot travel the path until you have become the…
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Palindromes • Fall 1988
18 Nov 2014Brief Encounter No. 8 Wolfgang Fuchs/Bill Smith/Evan Parker What shall I call this – The Further Adventures of Colston Q.…
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Paul Rutherford • Iskra 1903
17 Oct 2014Brief Encounters #7 Iskra was a political newspaper of Russian socialist emigrants established in December 1900 as the official organ…
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English Country Dances…
18 Jul 2014Brief Encounters No. 6 Just as I started thinking about the ending of the last project another package arrived in the…
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John Surman • Flashpoint
08 May 2014Brief Encounters #5 It ain’t no use scrolling through the Google street views, it’s all changed, this scruffy industrial district…