(Free Jazz, Free Improvisation) [CD] The Spontaneous Music Ensemble (Kenny Wheeler, Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, Dave Holland, John Stevens) - Karyōbin (Karyobin) - 1968 (2016 Japan Reissue), FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Kenny Wheeler: trumpet, flugelhorn
Evan Parker: soprano saxophone
Derek Bailey: electric guitar
Dave Holland: bass
John Stevens: drums

SME had already been going for a couple of years when Karyobin was recorded in 1968. Drummer John Stevens has pushed the group from the freedom of jazz into the wider challenge of collective free improvisation. The awareness and openness this demanded on the part of the musicians can be heard throughout this pioneering album. Compared to the magnificent raging bark of Peter Brotzmann's Machine Gun (recorded a couple of months later), the music on Karyobin distances itself from the energy and impassioned self-expression of free jazz. Evan Parker and Kenny Wheeler play with extraordinary closeness, between and beneath them Derek Bailey had already taken the guitar into unheard-of territory. The rhythmic flexibility of John Steven's gentle work provides the space for it all to happen. Like the best of the improvised music that has followed in the ensuing 30 years, it touched on a special kind of intensified awareness, an in-the-moment saying and listening that is enthralling to hear unfold.
- Will Montgomery

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