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VISIT OUR NEW SHOP AT 278 PORTOBELLO ROAD, W.10 LIKE the jazz which it springs. and usually cohabits today. improvised inherently revolutionary. always conveniently found in radical wrapp ings. It often is, though major event lau ching free jazz in York was called The OcRevolution in Jazz TOUCH The Revolutionary semble is one of the most challenging free music Britain has the COLLOOS Feminist Improvising Group (FIG). And a legendarv British group was tho trio, Iskra 1903, Barry Guy and Paul Rutherfor featured this summer the prestigious Bank Summer Music programme with the London Jazz Composers Orchestra.
But gaining a hearing has been an uphill battle for improvising DESCEN Various groups have organised promote free music. Evan Parker told us, "In the late sixties, Musicians Cooperalive — it wasn't cool to say 'the' - organised concerts at Ronnie Scotts on when was closed. But it is hard to organise and concentrate on performing 10O, and Parker says the London Musicians LOVECOG up the ideological side and musicians carried on with their music.
Parker is now active in building a pressure group for the improvising asthetic, the Association of improvising Musicians (AIM). This group sees its role not as a promoter but as a body to encourage the Musicians Union MU card is a condition of AIM membership - and special promoters like ine Jazz Centre Society (JSC) to sive more exposure to improvised music.
*I don't believe free improvised music should b music', Parker says. *The musicians are not al cach others throats and some free musicians lke Barr Guy can. play in any medium.
John Surman said the media often tries to segreis integrated with other integrated with other forms the audience is bigger *In Germany, France and Holland, they have been exposed to free music for a long time, and there are more opportunities to play there. They can hea it on the radio for example." Lindsay Cooper
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