Shoup / Burns / Radding / Campbell's lyrics & chords

Personnel: Wally Shoup (as) Gust Burns (p) Reuben Radding (b) Greg Campbell (d) Free improvisation isn’t only a European thing. The alto saxophonist Wally Shoup is one of the few American representatives of the musical praxis that dropped the jazz part of the “free jazz” equation and started improvising without idiomatic parameters. And even if he did discover the Music Improvisation Company (British improvisers Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, Hugh Davies and Jamie Muir) during the Seventies, he didn’t forget Ornette Coleman or Albert Ayle...read more