In 1966, three RAF band escapees coaxed a cautiously iconoclastic British response to American free jazz from like-minded experimentalists.
The Spontaneous Music Ensemble’s debut is an ur-text of improvisation, here with the addition of percussionist John Stevens’ meditational ode to the son he hardly saw, Distant Little Soul.
Challenge’s didactic sleeve notes continue to resonate; “Forget your preconceptions, … because this is what’s happening today.” A young Evan Parker blows sax by a Jack Kirby mural. And today, he’s still what’s happening today.
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