- Born
- 5 April 1944
Bristol - Country
- United Kingdom
- Record labels
- ECM Records
- Discography
- 159 albums
Biography
Evan Parker is a jazz musician who plays saxophone. Evan Parker was born on 5 April 1944 in Bristol. The music is usually filed under jazz, free jazz and free improvisation. Record labels: ECM Records. The discography here lists 159 albums, from “The Topography of the Lungs” (1970) to “Those Landings” (2026).
Evan Shaw Parker (born 5 April 1944) is a British tenor and soprano saxophone player who plays free improvisation. Recording and performing with many collaborators, Parker was a pivotal figure in the development of European free jazz and free improvisation. He has pioneered or substantially expanded an array of extended techniques. Critic Ron Wynn describes Parker as "among Europe's most innovative and intriguing saxophonists...his solo sax work isn't for the weak."
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Discography
Studio and live albums
The Topography of the Lungs
1970 · Incus Records
Collective Calls (Urban) (Two Microphones)
1972 · Incus Records
At the Unity Theatre
1975 · Live
Ra 1+2
1976 · Live
Saxophone Solos
1976 · Incus Records
The Longest Night, Vol. 1
1977
Abracadabra
1978 · Live
Monoceros
1978 · Incus Records
The Longest Night, Vol. 2
1978
4,4,4,
1980 · View
At the Finger Palace
1980 · Live
From Saxophone & Trombone
1980 · Incus Records
Incision
1981 · FMP
Six of One
1982 · Incus Records
Zanzou
1983 · Live
Hook, Drift & Shuffle
1985 · Live
Tai Kyoku
1985 · Live
The Snake Decides
1986 · Incus Records
Supersession
1988 · Live
The Ericle of Dolphi
1989 · Live
Hall of Mirrors
1990 · MM&T Records
Process and Reality
1991 · FMP
Conic Sections
1993 · ah um
50th Birthday Concert
1994 · Live
To Whom It May Concern: Dedicated to Kunio Nakamura (1944-1992)
1994 · Live
Corner to Corner
1995 · Ogun Recordings
Improvvisazioni
1995 · ADA
Obliquities
1995 · Maya Recordings
Birmingham Concert
1996 · Live
Evan Parker with Ghost-in-the-Machine
1996 · Leo Lab
Mars Song
1996 · Live
Synergetics – Phonomanie III
1996 · Live
Tempranillo
1996 · Música Secreta
Two Octobers (1972-1975)
1996 · Emanem
Chicago Solo
1997 · Okka Disk
London Air Lift
1997 · FMP
Monkey Puzzle
1997 · Leo Records
Most Materiall
1997 · Matchless Recordings
Solar Wind
1997 · Touch
Here Now: Solos / Duos
1998 · Live
Live at “Les Instants Chavirés”
1998 · Live
New Excursions
1998 · Live
Foxes Fox
1999 · Emanem
Unity Variations
1999 · Live
Waterloo 1985
1999 · Live
Brot & Honig
2000 · Live
Dark Rags
2000 · Live
High Tide
2000
The Two Seasons
2000 · Live
Two Chapters and an Epilogue
2000
Dividuality
2001 · Maya Recordings
Evan Parker / Patrick Scheyder
2001 · Leo Records
Lines Burnt in Light
2001 · Live
Parker/Haslam/Edwards
2001 · Live
Passage to Hades
2001
Rangirua
2001 · Leo Records
September Duos
2001 · Live
The Ayes Have It
2001 · Emanem
Chicago Tenor Duets
2002 · Okka Disk
For the Love Of...
2002 · Live
The Needles
2002 · Leo Records
888
2003 · Live
Alder Brook
2003 · Live
America 2003
2004 · Live
Evan Parker With Birds
2004 · Treader
Imponderable Evidence
2004 · Matchless Recordings
Munich and Glasgow
2004 · Live
Free Zone Appleby 2004
2005 · Live
Glossolalia
2005
Short Stories
2005 · Leo Records
Time Lapse
2006 · Tzadik
A Glancing Blow
2007 · Live
Abbey Road Duos
2007 · Treader
Live at Roulette
2007 · Live
Boustrophedon
2008 · Live
C-Section
2009 · Second Layer Records
Full Bloom
2009 · Live
House Full of Floors
2009 · Tzadik
Live
2009 · Live
SET
2009 · Live
The Brewery Tap
2009 · Live
Psalms
2010 · psi
Whitstable Solo
2010 · Live
At Somewhere There
2011 · Live
Live at Akbank Jazz Festival
2011 · Live
Live at the Vortex, London
2011 · Live
Round About One O’Clock
2011 · Live
The Bleeding Edge
2011 · psi
Together in Zero Space
2011 · Live
Trance Map
2011 · psi
Dortmund Variations
2012 · Live
Meetings With Remarkable Saxophonists, Volume 1
2012 · Live
The Voice Is One
2012 · Live
Vivaces
2012 · Live
Rex, Wrecks & XXX
2013 · RogueArt
Rocket Science
2013 · Live
Vaincu.Va!: Live at Western Front 1978
2013 · Live
What / If / They Both Could Fly
2013 · Live
Either or And
2014 · Relative Pitch Records
Extremes
2014 · Live
Flash Art
2014 · Live
#Two
2015 · Live
Marsyas Suite
2015 · Live
Ninth Square
2015 · Live
The Hurrah
2015 · Live
Title Goes Here
2015 · Live
Two Chaps
2015 · Live
As the Wind
2016 · psi
City Fall: Live at Cafe Oto
2016 · Live
Duets 71977
2016 · Ictus Records
Mopomoso Tour 2013: Making Rooms
2016 · Live
On Growth and Form
2016 · Live
Seven Pieces: Live at Willisau 1995
2016 · Live
Tie the Stone to the Wheel
2016 · Live
28.5.17
2017 · Live
Gianni Gebbia + Evan Parker Duos
2017 · Live
Live@Alchemia
2017 · Live
PEN
2017 · Live
Reunion Live From Cafe Oto
2017 · Live
Walthamstow Moon (’61 Revisited)
2017 · Byrd Out
Linger Like Joy in Memory
2018 · Live
Paris (1997)
2018 · Live
THE FLOW OF SPIRIT
2018 · Live
Tools of Imagination
2018 · Live
Calenture and Light Leaks
2019 · Live
Chiasm
2019 · Live
Crepuscule in Nickelsdorf
2019 · Live
Inferences
2019 · Live
Live at Angelica 2018
2019 · Live
Locations
2019 · Live
The Balderin Sali Variations
2019 · Live
The Dogs of Nile
2019 · Live
The Village
2019 · Live
Work in Progress
2019 · Vortex Jazz Club
Arkosberg
2020 · Live
Collective Calls (Revisited) (Jubilee)
2020 · Intakt Records
Foxes Fox
2020 · Live
Parker, Edwards and Day
2020 · Live
2001
2021 · Strange Strings
Medway Blues
2021 · Live
Pent
2021 · Live
Winns Win
2021 · Byrd Out
descension (Out of Our Constrictions)
2021 · Live
A Schist Story
2022 · Live
Raise Four
2022
THEN THROUGH NOW
2022
Dialog
2023
Gift
2023 · Live
NYC 1978
2023 · Live
So It Goes…
2023 · Live
The Heraclitean Two-Step, etc.
2024 · False Walls
Branches
2025 · Live
Insolence
2025 · Live
Tebugo
2025 · Live
May Spring Last a Lifetime
2026
Those Landings
2026 · Tzadik
Free Noise - Bristol Arnolfini, UK, May 3rd 2007
· Live
London 21.11.13
· Live
Rocket Science
· Live
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Frequently asked questions
What instrument does Evan Parker play?
Evan Parker is known for playing saxophone.
When and where was Evan Parker born?
Evan Parker was born 5 April 1944 in Bristol.
What are Evan Parker's best-known albums?
Albums in our database include The Topography of the Lungs (1970), Collective Calls (Urban) (Two Microphones) (1972), Saxophone Solos (1976), Monoceros (1978) and 4,4,4, (1980).
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