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Evan Parker: The Magnificent Evan

Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 9 February 1985

The siren song of the saxophone — Evan Parker's been looking into this mystery for 20 years.  The master of free music talks to Richard Cook about improvising and improvisers, Coltrane and Sam Beckett — and how to find the poetry in his extraordinary work.

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