Label: Corbett vs. Dempsey

重鎮らの2度目の共演を捉えた2003年録音物!!両者共にテナー・サックスのみを用いた、1998年シカゴでの共演録音を発表しているジョー・マクフィーとエヴァン・パーカーのデュオ。そこから5年越しで実現した親密な対話的共演を記録した音源が初CD化。本作の公演では使用楽器を拡大、テナー・サックスとソプラノ・サックスに加えマクフィー愛用のポケット・コルネットも導入し全7パートを録音。冒頭から両者の直感的な演奏が際立ち、"互いに離れつつも再び結びつく"という不思議なビジョンで進行する名演集。

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Two masters of wind instruments blowing in from the Windy City. In 2003, as part of the seventh annual Empty Bottle Festival of Jazz & Improvised Music, Joe McPhee and Evan Parker squared off for a round of intimate dialogues. The resulting recording is just the second time they had played as a duet, the previous also being in Chicago, at a studio in 1998, where the limited their instrumentarium to tenor saxophones, resulting in the Okka Disc classic Chicago Tenor Duets. In this case, they expanded their arsenal to include tenor and soprano saxophones, as well as McPhee’s trusty pocket cornet. Held in a beautiful hall at the Chicago Cultural Center, the concert was unforgettable. Fortunately, it was documented by the legendary mobile recordist Malachi Ritscher, who recorded most of the Bottle Fests with his usual rough-and-ready style. From the opening notes, Sweet Nothings was notable for the musicians’ intuitive connection. Freely improvised in seven parts, these are duets of the highest caliber performed by two musicians who are constantly seeking common ground – what you might call “agree-to-agree” improvisors. But there’s no lack of tension or productive dissonance; on the contrary, that’s part of their unity of vision, the shared ability to diverge and reconnect.