FRANK PERRY TRIO
I had the very great good fortune to play
with these two giant geniuses and innovative improvisers (Evan Parker
& the late Derek Bailey) from around 1970. These
two had worked together in a variety of improvising situations but had somewhat
fallen out when I, perhaps, rather naively, had a wish to bring them back
together. I had played with each of them separately before in different
improvising situations
and they kindly
agreed to play with me in this trio. We didn't rehearse - in fact, in all of the
improvising groups that I was involved with there was never any discussions regarding the
form that the music would take. It was
always spontaneously improvised. There is a short extract below from the Trio
performing at the Albion Music Club close by the Albert Hall.
One of our
performances was for the Royal Commonwealth Society where they had a power cut
and so Derek had his acoustic guitar with him and played a solo set. I played a
solo piece and then Evan Parker and myself performed as a duo. So this duo
wasn't even planned - it was due to a force of circumstances. As was my custom
at the time I carried around my little Philips Cassette recorder and would
record for my own interest to analyse my playing to see where I could improve
upon my group improvising.
Many years later, in
the 21st century, I
was invited to perform my current style of improvising upon a large selection of
Tibetan ritual instruments (percussion) in Milan, Italy, and arranged to do a swap with the
promoter - who was also a jazz musician - of some rare tapes that he had with
some equally rare ones of my own. Amongst the latter he'd asked for the recording of my duo with
Evan which finally was released on his label upon vinyl. A small sample of which
can be heard by clicking on the second link below.
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This is a short extract from a 46 minute
recording of an improvisation 22/1/1972
Derek Bailey - Amplified Guitar
Evan Parker - Soprano Saxophone
Frank Perry - Percussion
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This is a short extract from a 33 minute
recording of an improvisation 11/2/1972
"FOR THE LOVE OF . . . . "
Evan Parker - Soprano Saxophone
Frank Perry - Percussion
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