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Evan Shaw Parker (born 5 April 1944) is a British saxophone player who plays free jazz.

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Of course I knew the work of Roland Kirk and Harry Carney and the specific uses they would make of circular breathing, so I knew it was physically possible.

Breathing, Carney, Circular, Courses, Kirk, Use

We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that's where our studies were and our inspiration came from.

Inspiration, Jazz, Modern, Music, Recorded, Study

There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very special interest in the history of the music and advised Martin Davidson of the existence of these tapes.

Character, Interest, Martin, Music, Sound, Special

If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.

Drawn, Live, Performances, Recordings, Thinking, Way

I'd met Roscoe in Europe quite a few times over the years, and we'd say hi and so on, but this was the first time we'd actually played together.

Europe, Played, Say, Together, Years

So I'm looking to the saxophone as a resource which has its own unique set of possibilities. I'm looking to exploit them and develop them and have the fullest range of possibilities of the saxophone be known.

Fullest, Known, Looking, Possibility, Saxophone, Unique

Remarkable only the very best arrangers can get a sound like that from four horns

Four, Horns, Like, Remarkable, Sound

So what starts is ad hoc and you never know where it's going to lead, so it's important to keep an open mind about those things.

Ads, Important, Lead, Mind, Starts, Things

My roots are in my record player.

Player, Record, Records, Roots

Those early steps are very important in understanding the evolution. But in themselves, maybe now you need the later records to understand the significance of the earlier records!

Important, Maybe, Needs, Significance, Understanding

In a certain sense, aspects of my solo playing were developed in order to test the theory about how long particular elements could be, as parts of so-called free improvisations.

Certain, Elements, Free, Long, Order, Particular

I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments.

Adequately, Doe, Imitated, Perfectly, Thinking, Voice

I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique opened for me.

Came, Decision, Doors, Having, Think, Thinking

I didn't get where I am today by being timid, young man.

Man, Men, Timid, Today, Young

Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those days.

Air, Days, Education, Musical, Paul, People

I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room! What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway.

Different, Mean, Music, Right, Room, Thinking

I've been to the studio several times, and it's not that I'm not happy with what I've got, but each time I come away, I feel that I've learned something that I want to work on.

Away, Come, I'Ve Learned, Not Happy, Studio, Want

The argument we always used to use was that keeping records in the catalog was good for people that were coming new to the music, but I think that was talking over a ten year or fifteen year time span.

Span, Talking, Think, Thinking, Use, Years

A kind of synthesis, but with some elements that perhaps you wouldn't have expected in advance. I always like that when that happens, when something comes that is more than the sum of the parts.

Elements, Expected, Kind, Like, Sum, Synthesis

So in the sense that we were all dealing with that freer approach, yes, it was certainly one of the first contacts, perhaps the first contact, when Peter came that summer. So it's a very pivotal moment that is documented there.

Came, Documented, Firsts, Perhaps, Pivotal Moments, Summer

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