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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Alwyn, Digiguide.tv
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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Esme Folley, Actress, cellist, Twitter
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Anonymous, The Northfield Patriot
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Dominic Cavendish, Telegraph
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Tweeter Kyriakou, Twitter
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Johnny Kitkat, dontstartmeoff.com
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Gmanthedemon, bbc.co.uk
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A D Ward, Twitter
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Deepbass, Guardian.co.uk
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Maninabananasuit, Guardian.co.uk
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