A big anniversary is celebrated on this recording: Evan Parker and Paul Lytton got to know each other in 1969 and after months of rehear- sals their first performance followed in 1970. It was the time of the jazz avant-garde, which renewed and expanded the traditional ways of playing and the Parker-Lytton Duo was an active part of this process.
“Over the past fifty years, they have each minutely sorted through aesthetics, methods, and protocols, maintaining an ongoing dialogue. The years have yielded a rich diversity of music, complemented by the current recording, the first to feature only tenor Saxophone and a jazz kit,” writes the American jazz journalist Bill Shoemaker in the liner notes.
Shoemaker, who supervised the recordings in Chicago, goes on to say: “The dynamic of free improvisation and a long personal history docu- mented on this Chicago studio session bears out what Parker told Bai- ley forty years ago: ‘In practice, the closest I would get to a laboratory situation is working with the people I know best ... the people I’ve played with the longest actually offer me the freest situation to work in.’ On the basis of this unprecedented music, that assessment has stood the test of time.”

Cover Photo: Caroline Forbes
Band Photo: Lauren Deutsch
Graphic Design: Paul Bieri
Liner Notes: Bill Shoemaker

Music by Evan Parker (PRS) and Paul Lytton (GEMA). Recor- ded March 29, 2019 at Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago by Alex Inglizian. Mixed Summer 2019 by Evan Parker and Mat- thew Wright. Mastered by Matthew Wright. Recording produced by Evan Parker, Paul Lytton and Bill Shoemaker. Produced and published by Intakt Records, Patrik Landolt, Anja
Illmaier, Florian Keller, P. O. Box, 8024 Zur̈ ich, Switzerland