9.6.06
Tonight’s Jazz On 3 is a festival of free-improvisation. We recorded Freedom of the City 2006 earlier this year and on tonight’s programme you’ll hear extracts from each of the fifteen performances that took place on April 30th and May 1st. It’s a kind of sound collage that features 47 musicians in ensembles including Evan Parker’s Octet; electronics duo Furt; nine-piece Quaqua, which pits vocals against strings and horns; and Iskra3 in which trombonist Paul Rutherford is sampled, stretched and manipulated live by computer wizards Lawrence Casserley and Robert Jarvis.
Based at the Red Rose in Finsbury Park, London, Freedom of the City was originally set up to provide a platform for the creative, but perhaps under-represented, free-improvisation scene in London, but now welcomes performers from around Europe. The festival is curated by saxophonist Evan Parker, drummer Eddie Prévost and Martin Davidson, the man behind the free music record label Emanem.
posted by eduardo chagas
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