Reviews of A New Kind Of Wilderness, The Marching Band, Good One and Magic Farm by MARIA DUARTE, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA
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Joe McPhee, John Edwards and Klaus Kugel
Journey to Parazzar
(Not Two)
Rodrigo Amado, Joe McPhee, Kent Kessler and Chris Corsano
A History of Nothing
(Trost Records)
SOUL Bar Parazzar is a jazz venue in Bruges whose name is a play on the French word for chance and lucky were the listeners who happened on this trio playing there in September 2017, at the final gig of this of Joe McPhee, John Edwards and Klaus Kugel’s European tour.
The triumvirate Journey to Parazzar consisted of saxophonist McPhee, joined by Klaus Kugel and bassist John Edwards and they begin with Re-hairing in Zaporozhye, where the record was waxed and Edwards got his bass bow rehaired, and he produces a deep flurry of springing notes as if his instrument were reborn.
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