Derek Bailey, Han Bennink, Evan Parker, three legends of jazz and improvised music, three days of historic concerts in a great boxset

Three legends of jazz and improvised music. A historic three-day concert featuring Derek Bailey, Han Bennink, and Evan Parker, already at the peak of their arts, both free-spirited and deeply attentive to one another (in duo form) or to each other (in trio form), and, of course, incredibly creative. A rare and precious find!
Such a recording deserved a beautiful presentation, and that's exactly what we get. A magnificent four-disc set with a booklet. Each disc has its own gatefold sleeve with photos from the concert. The booklet includes liner notes by Bill Shoemaker, Sturat Broomer, Philippe Alen, Joël Pagier, and Jean Rochard, as well as an explanatory note by Jean-Marc Foussat, who recorded the concert.

'There are certain crucial art works around which one might construct a larger history, where everything known or felt about a certain past unfolds and a certain future comes into view, like an air check from Birdland in 1950 of Charlie Parker playing Street Beat for ten minutes with Fats Navarro, Bud Powell and Max Roach, or Velasquez' Las Meninas. Bailey, Bennink and Parker's Topographie Parisienne may be such a work, running 3:39:11. It is generously - and genuinely - overwhelming, three

Track Listing

Disc 1:

• Evan Parker solo
• Derek Bailey - Han Bennink - Evan Parker trio

Disc 2:

• Han Bennink - Evan Parker duet
• Derek Bailey - Evan Parker duet
• Han Bennink - Evan Parker duet

Disc 3:

• Derek Bailey - Han Bennink duet
• Derek Bailey - Evan Parker duet

Disc 4:

• Derek Bailey - Han Bennink - Evan Parker trio
• Evan Parker solo

Additional Details

Label: FOU Records

Genre: Jazz

Language: English

Run Time: 213:06 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 03/06/26

UPC: 3491570067321