SOLO
the scottish rite temple, washington, usa 2005,
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The Geometry of Sentiment ::
Horn_Bill ::
Cavern with Nightlife ::
Invisible Ear ::
Fixations (14)
London & Cologne ::
13 Friendly Numbers
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Huddersfield Prospects
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Bill Shoemaker's
"Solo Flights" (extract) from Jazz Times
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Birthday
I think I first played solo - a piece, not a concert - in 1982 at the Workers' Music Association in Notting Hill Gate.
To quote from a 1998 essay the magazine Rubberneck requested:
"After a few concerts I'd learnt a lot about making connections - but had also noticed recognisable pieces beginning to develop. I quite liked this, but worried about what it meant for long-term solo work. For a while, I almost envied composers; able to wrap up a piece, send it out into the world, and move on to the next. But a lot of the pleasure in giving solo concerts is connected to the hope of finding, spontaneously, some music you didn’t really know about beforehand. Playing ‘pieces’ is too close to playing ‘routines’ and a concert is an opportunity for much more. As a live performer, improvising usually just feels better - less acting, less theatre, and more chance for a little magic. By way of a bonus, this means engaging with what Derek Bailey has described as a ‘search for whatever is endlessly variable’
However, a considerable attraction of solo playing is that you have full control. You can work with material that may be too inflexible for the push and pull of group improvising; you can plan ahead, you can attempt pieces that have a definite, sustained, flavour - that adhere to some concept.”
Unblown Feedback-Tenor
Site-Specific Solos
The Geometry of Sentiment
Live recordings from Japan (2004) and Europe (2006).Horn_Bill
One track (18:44) on this double CD on Matchless. 
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Contains of all of the solos played on 9th January 2005 at the 291 Gallery, Hackney.
The all reed concert was organised by ONGAKU:enjoy_sound.
John Butcher
Nathaniel Catchpole
Kai Fagaschinski
Lou Gare
Evan Parker
Seymour Wright
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Bagatellen. :: KFJC
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read WIRE ::
Dusted :: One Final Note
:: All about Jazz (Italy)
13 Friendly Numbers
Saxophone solos and multitracks.
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Recorded 1991 and originally released on ACTA.
2004 reissue on Unsounds.
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Sunday Herald :: Paris Transatlantic :: Dusted ::
MOJO :: Penguin guide to Jazz
read and listen :: BBC
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The Brittle Chance
Invisible Ear
Close-miked and/or amplified-feedback and/or multitracked saxophones.
Recorded at home in London: 2002.
- plus one (multi) track from Münster, Germany: 1999.
Released on Fringes in a numbered limited edition of 600.
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Dusted ::
Squid's Ear ::
Paris Transatlantic
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Streamers
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Magnetic Bottle
