This is the seventh interview from a 2018 series by Caroline Kraabel, initially broadcast on London's art radio station, Resonance 104.4 FM. saxophonist and improviser Evan Parker talks about the London Improvisers Orchestra and about improvisation.
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To improvise freely means you're free to use material that you know very well indeed and you're also free to invent and take risks, to do stuff you're not quite in control of, just to see where it leads.
Evan Parker
credits
from Why is Improvising Important?,
released January 23, 2019
Recorded by Caroline Kraabel; thanks to Evan Parker, Resonance 104.4 FM, and John Edwards.
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