What a fascinating clash of styles and sensibility here on Raise Four, a 2004 BBC recording now getting a release that pits doyen of the UK jazz avant garde Evan Parker with a much more straightahead operator no less revered in mainstream circles in bassist Dave Green here with incendiary saxophonist Iain Dixon and the Partisans drummer Gene Calderazzo.
What's notable certainly on the extracts we have heard so far is how intuitively the group mesh together. Expect free improv as well as Monk and Strayhorn covers, Raise Four (the title drawing on Monk's tune of the same name featured on 1968's Underground album) is to be issued by Trio Records on 25 February. Follow this link for a small sample of the title track ahead of release.
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