Evan Parker, Barry Guy and Paul Lytton – three legendary figures in the field of improvisation – have each developed their own epochal styles. These long-time friends and collaborators now present the latest of their Trio recordings – part of an ongoing series that began in 1980 with the now out-of-print LP 'Tracks'. Their powerful improvisations reveal them as a trio of unyielding innovation, both conserving and constantly renewing a rich heritage of achievement in free jazz.

Evan Parker writes in the liner notes: "Collective free improvisation is the utopian state arrived at in that other «little life» as the late John Stevens called the mental space of music making that happens when musicians of a like mind («birds of a feather») play freely together. Paul Lytton and I first met in 1967 at a music festival in a park in Birmingham where I was playing in duo with John, Paul was playing with a jazz big band and Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac were «topping the bill» (as they used to say). In the next years we all played together in different combinations and permutations including Barry’s London Jazz Composers Orchestra and the Parker-Lytton duo. In 1980 we started to play as the trio Parker-Guy-Lytton."

Cover art: Trevor Sutton and Ferdinand Penker
Graphic design: Jonas Schoder
Liner notes: Evan Parker
Photo: Caroline Forbes

Music by Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Paul Lytton. Recorded live at Vortex Jazz Club London, July 14, 2016. Digital recording to multi track: Ali Ward. Mixdown to stereo: Sam Parker. Post production and editing: Matt Wright and Evan Parker. Mastering: Adam Skeaping. Produced by Evan Parker and Intakt Records, Patrik Landolt.