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‘I feel more elated listening to it now’
Jazz saxophonist EVAN PARKER tells Chris Searle what's so special about ground-breaking jazz recording Karyobin

KARYOBIN are imaginary birds said to live in paradise and it's also the title of a1968 recording, now reissued, which went on to become a free-jazz classic.

 

Intuitive: Evan Parker (Pic: Richard Kaby/Creative Commons)
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