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Dangerous Musics in '91 Jon Corbett Nick Stephens Roger Turner

by Jon Corbett Nick Stephens Roger Turner

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    Label Spotlight - Loose Torque is the audio equivalent of a small press publisher that concentrates on aesthetics - The New York City Jazz Record 2011
    Bassist Stephens' imprint publishes some of the finest jazz-tinged improvisation around - Touching Extremes.
    The discs are very well done, as is their packaging - Stuart Broomer, Point of Departure.

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1.
Five Impromptus In A Flat No.1 09:09
2.
No.2 05:53
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No.3 05:51
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No.4 06:27
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No.5 04:17
6.
The Down The Back Of The Sofa Tape 36:06

about

Originally assembled by Jon Corbett, for BBC Radio’s “Jazz Today” in April 1987, Dangerous Musics featured: Jon, Evan Parker, and two percussionists Will Evans and Thebe Lipare. Later, pianists replaced percussion with first Chris Burn and later Pat Thomas. According to my diary, the first gig with the Dangerous Musics trio heard on this recording was in April 1989 at The Plough Stockwell.

The first five tracks from 1991 are part of a session recorded by Jon at Roger's flat - where we had to keep it down a bit.
A couple of years later Jon handed me an unmarked cassette, “I found this down the back of the sofa, I don’t know where it came from, I didn’t record it.”
It’s a live recording at an unknown venue, obviously by someone in the audience, who gave him the cassette after the gig. - there was usually a 'Sony Walkman' in the audience, but t’s a very lively room and the music's not polite. It's a case of Low Fi Hi Energy, but a typical Dangerous Musics gig - Nick Stephens

Dangerous Musics performed alert, high-velocity improvised music that expressed itself with rude cartoon violence and and stumbled along in agitated outbursts….Corbet's lithe malleable trumpet feels like it's perpetually trying to engineer an escape route from its high register, from where broken fanfares and disquieting screams tumble around Stephens's rapid-response bass and Turner's lawless drums. The disc begins with five professionally recorded etude-like improvisations from 1991, and moves to the 'lost gig' (exquisitly remastered) to which Corbett's agile flute adds expotentially. A forgotten part of our Improv heritage. - Phillip Clark, WIRE

Intense interaction and joint creative destruction. It is violent at times, but also subtle, sometimes even emotional, with an unbelievable immediacy and playing "in the moment'
On the longer live track the possibilities offered by its length make it even better than the other pieces, with Corbett switching to flute, and the rhythm section moves into a powerful thundering mode which was totally absent at the beginning of the record. Don't be too concerned about the fact that the music was originally recorded on cassettes: the sound has been digitally remastered and now brought back to life, for today's audiences. - Stef, FREE JAZZ freejazz-stef.blogspot.com

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released January 1, 2008

Jon Corbett - trumpet and valve trombone
Nick Stephens - acoustic bass
Roger Turner - percussion

1-5 Recorded by Jon Corbett 8th July 1991
track 6 recorded by unknown, date unknown, location unknown.
Photography and design Fay Stephens
Digitally remastered from cassettes by Nick Stephens.

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British Bassist Nick Stephens created Loose Torque Records in 2005 to make available undocumented live recordings of improvised music and free jazz. The current catalogue of 30 CDs also features contemporary live and studio recordings.
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