SME here represents the first generation of free improvisers as a point of reference/comparison with what follows. On HOW YA DOIN? Watts and Stevens play with a cohesion built on decades of playing and listening together. This is instant composition; an impulsive dialogue of calls answering and overlapping.
credits
from How Ya Doin?,
track released January 1, 2013
1 Spontaneous Music Ensemble (SME): How Ya Doin? (Stevens) (10:45) Trevor Watts: soprano saxophone John Stevens: cornet Recorded: Wolverhampton Polytechnic 4 april 1973 Engineer: Oliver Senior
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