Evan Parker, Kenny Wheeler, Paul Dunmall, Tony Levin and John Edwards - Live at the Vortex, London - Rare Music - Rare Music 037

The drummer Tony Levin died in February, aged 71, and this is one of six previously unissued recordings offered by Rare Music in tribute.
Live in London in 2003, Levin chooses perfect points at which to interrupt and investigate a slowly gathering storm of horns, featuring two veterans from free improvisation's first wave, Evan Parker and Kenny Wheeler on saxophone and trumpet respectively, and their spiritual nephew Paul Dunmall, on more saxophone.

The ubiquitous John Edwards' endlessly inventive bass bricolage provides see-sawing structural underpinning.

(9/10/11)