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There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very special interest in the history of the music and advised Martin Davidson of the existence of these tapes.

~Evan Parker

Topics: Advised Character Existence He Here History Institution Interest Martin Music National Paul Sound Special Special Interest Takes Tapes The History Of Very Who Wilson Works

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I think it's a great document of John Stevens' originality. At that time he was already much more fully formed in his conception than I was. I was sort of struggling to keep up, and sometimes it's pretty obvious.

~Evan Parker

Topics: Conception Document Formed Fully Great He His John Keep More Much Obvious Originality Pretty Sometimes Sort Struggling Than Think Time Up I Think

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Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those days.

~Evan Parker

Topics: Actually Air Air Force Days Education English Force Get Got Had Jazz Jazz Musicians John John Paul Joining Kind Known Musical Musicians Other Paul People Pretty Rather Several Some Standard Those Training Way Well Well Known Which

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So in the sense that we were all dealing with that freer approach, yes, it was certainly one of the first contacts, perhaps the first contact, when Peter came that summer. So it's a very pivotal moment that is documented there.

~Evan Parker

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I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room! What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway.

~Evan Parker

Topics: Anyway Different Different Things Difficult Enough Even Hear Live May Me Mean Meaning Music Now Playing Question Quite Right Room Same Take Things Think Two Whole You I Think

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Those early steps are very important in understanding the evolution. But in themselves, maybe now you need the later records to understand the significance of the earlier records!

~Evan Parker

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The argument we always used to use was that keeping records in the catalog was good for people that were coming new to the music, but I think that was talking over a ten year or fifteen year time span.

~Evan Parker

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It's not like, I don't know, if Madonna has a new record out, then everybody from Bangkok to Birmingham knows what its called and can buy it the same week. But our stuff is not in that mass market.

~Evan Parker

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I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique opened for me.

~Evan Parker

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I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments.

~Evan Parker

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Musician

Born: April 5th, 1944

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