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Away At Home - John Stevens Away

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	1.	Free blow segue to Anni 15:59 video
	2.	Just A Matter Of Time 15:06
	3.	Relative Space segue What's That? 14:33
	4.	Whoops a Daisy 02:53
	5.	Home segue What's That? 23:00

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Recorded six months after 'Integration' and trumpeter Jon Corbett is now a member of the group.The Plough was a downtown 'Home' to jazz, situated south of the river between Stockwell and Brixton. A regular gig for Phil Seaman and then John Stevens who presented ad-hoc groups - many of them memorable with audiences much larger than the room allowed for and hardly the elbow space required to raise a pint. For Away too, during 1978/9 this became a second home - Nick Stephens

While there’s no question this ensemble was wading into the same waters as Miles Davis, Weather Report, and others across the pond, there’s an energy continually present on Away at Home that seems sorely lacking from a lot of American electric jazz. Away at Home presents an unsubtle, driving music that both embraces the intoxicating headspace of a tightly locked groove and captures the intensity of the classic free jazz free-for-all. Away feared no tempo or crescendo - Dan Sorrells, Free Jazz Collective

This music, unlike the prim jazzrock of Nucleus, genuinely rocked. Soloists were handed ample space and the imported cultural point of reference - Stevens's love of funk and soul - was jemmied into his wider understanding of ensemble spontaneity. Or looking at it another way, that hybrid of freedom and time he dealt up in the earliest days of SME swung full circle - Philip Clark, The Wire.

"Away at Home is a cassette recording (and very high quality at that) of Stevens' band Away playing a gig at The Plough in 1978. The music is plugged-in, amped up..and delivers all the energy of jazz-rock before the failures of jazz-rock-fusion - Mark Corroto All About Jazz.

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released January 16, 2020

Robert Calvert - saxophones
Jon Corbett - trumpet
Nigel Moyse - guitar
Martin Holder - guitar
Nick Stephens - electric bass
John Stevens - drums, composition, leader.

Recorded at The Plough Stockwell 4th August 1978
Recorded to cassette by Robert Calvert
Digitally remastered by Nick Stephens
Artwork Fay Stephens

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