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2000 live album by Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Paul Lytton, and Marilyn Crispell

After Appleby

Live album by Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Paul Lytton, and Marilyn Crispell
Released	2000
Recorded	June 28 and 29, 1999
Venue	Vortex Jazz Club, London
Studio	Gateway Studio, London
Genre	Free jazz
Label	Leo Records CD LR 283/284
Producer	Evan Parker, Leo Feigin

After Appleby is a double-CD album by the members of the Evan Parker Trio (saxophonist Evan Parker, bassist Barry Guy, and drummer Paul Lytton), with guest pianist Marilyn Crispell. One CD was recorded on June 28, 1999, at Gateway Studio in London, while the other was recorded live the following day at the Vortex Jazz Club in London. The recordings took place immediately after the Appleby Jazz Festival, where the musicians performed in a variety of combinations. The album was released in 2000 by Leo Records.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
The Penguin Guide to Jazz
All About Jazz

In a review for AllMusic, Steve Loewy wrote: "Lytton and Guy... are longtime collaborators with Parker, but the addition of the pianist is a welcome addition to the mix, giving the proceedings an extra depth. Crispell can spurt fleetingly across the keyboard with clusters of notes, but she also shows a lyrical side that displays considerable depth. The longer tracks feature the quartet, while the others alternate between different combinations of the musicians. All are in perfect form, and the clear recording quality and lengthy recording time... commend this double-disc set to admirers of Evan Parker and freely improvised music."

The authors of the Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings awarded the album 4 stars, calling the band "a free-music supergroup," and stating: "Crispell has been quieter recently... and it's tempting to suggest that this is really her album. Her duets with Guy and particularly with Lytton are masterpieces of delicate concentration. But it's Evan who dominates the long pieces, locked in dialogue with the sounds around him, constantly listening and responding and wasting nothing on empty gesture."

Writing for All About Jazz, Glenn Astarita described the album as "a festive union of bleeding edge improvisational spirits," and commented: "these esteemed musicians perform a series of works that pretty much skirt the fringes of every conceivable tract of intuitive expressionism imaginable along with hearty injections of antagonistic interplay and understated themes... the overall synergy and balance amongst the musicians provides the listener with a thoroughly cohesive and somewhat awe-inspiring portraiture of top-flight workmanship... After Appleby should meet or perhaps exceed most of our expectations in a grand sort of way! Highly recommended."

Track listing

Disc one: studio recording

At Gateway Studio, London - 28 June 1999

"Warp" (Guy/Crispell) – 3:38
"Blue Star Kachina" (Guy/Parker/Crispell/Lytton) – 20:05
"Wax" (Crispell/Lytton) – 2:57
"Falcon's Wing" (Guy/Parker) – 2:54
"Wane" (Crispell/Lytton) – 3:10
"Weft" (Guy/Crispell) – 2:32
"Where Heart Revive" (Guy/Parker/Crispell/Lytton) – 25:14
"Tchefit" (Guy/Parker) – 3:05

Disc two: live recording

In concert at the Vortex Jazz Club, London - 29 June 1999

"Capnomantic Vortex (For David Mossman)" (Guy/Parker/Crispell/Lytton) – 51:36
"Fond Farewell" (Guy/Parker/Crispell/Lytton) – 15:59
(applause) - 0:19

Personnel

Evan Parker – soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
Barry Guy – double bass
Paul Lytton – percussion
Marilyn Crispell – piano

References

"Parker/Guy/Lytton and Crispell: After Appleby". Jazz Music Archives. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
"Evan Parker / Barry Guy / Paul Lytton / Marilyn Crispell: After Appleby". Leo Records. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
^ Loewy, Steve. "Parker/Guy/Lytton/Crispell: After Appleby". AllMusic. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. Penguin Books. p. 1124.
^ Astarita, Glenn (1 June 2000). "Evan Parker - Barry Guy - Paul Lytton And Marilyn Crispell: After Appleby". All About Jazz. Retrieved 4 April 2022.

v t e Paul Lytton
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Studio albums	Collective Calls (Urban) (Two Microphones) (with Evan Parker, 1972) Natives and Aliens (with Evan Parker, Barry Guy, and Marilyn Crispell, 1996) The Balance of Trade (1996) English Suites (with Ken Vandermark, 1999) Odyssey (with Barry Guy and Marilyn Crispell, 1999) Ithaca (with Barry Guy and Marilyn Crispell, 2003) Phases of the Night (with Barry Guy and Marilyn Crispell, 2007) Deep Memory (with Barry Guy and Marilyn Crispell, 2015)
Live albums	At the Unity Theatre (with Evan Parker, 1975) At the Vortex (with Evan Parker and Barry Guy, 1996) After Appleby (with Evan Parker, Barry Guy, and Marilyn Crispell, 1999) Live at Maya Recordings Festival (with Evan Parker and Barry Guy, 2011) Music for David Mossman (with Evan Parker and Barry Guy, 2016)

v t e Barry Guy
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Solo albums	Fizzles (1991) Symmetries (2001) Five Fizzles for Samuel Beckett (2009) Irvin's Comet (2019)
with Howard Riley	Angle (1968 & 1969) The Day Will Come (1970)
with Tony Oxley	Ichnos (1969 & 1970) February Papers (1977) Unreleased 1974–2016 ( 1974, 1981, & 2016)
with Paul Rutherford	Iskra 1903 (1970 & 1972) Sequences 72 & 73 (1972, 1973, & 1974)
with London Jazz Composers' Orchestra	Ode (1972) Zurich Concerts (1987 & 1988) Harmos (1989) Double Trouble (1989) Theoria (1991) Double Trouble Two (1995) Radio Rondo/Schaffhausen Concert (2008)
with the Barry Guy New Orchestra	Inscape–Tableaux (2000) Oort–Entropy (2004)
with Evan Parker	Atlanta (1986) 50th Birthday Concert (1994) Bush Fire (1995) The Redwood Session (1995) Natives and Aliens (1996) Toward the Margins (1996) At the Vortex (1996) Drawn Inward (1998) After Appleby (1999) Memory/Vision (2002) Birds and Blades (2002) Boustrophedon (2004) The Moment's Energy (2007) Live at Maya Recordings Festival (2011) Music for David Mossman (2016)
with Mats Gustafsson	You Forget to Answer (1994 & 1995) Gryffgryffgryffs (1996)
with Marilyn Crispell	Cascades (1993) Odyssey (1990) Ithaca (2003) Phases of the Night (2007) Deep Memory (2015)
with Cecil Taylor	Nailed (1990) Melancholy (1990)
with Bill Dixon	Vade Mecum (1993) Vade Mecum II (1993)
with Roscoe Mitchell	Composition/Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 & 3 (2004)
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v t e Evan Parker
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Studio albums	The Music Improvisation Company 1968–1971 (1969 & 1970) The Topography of the Lungs (1970) The Music Improvisation Company (1970) Collective Calls (Urban) (Two Microphones) (1972) Monoceros (1978) The Snake Decides (1986) Conic Sections (1989) The Redwood Session (1995) Tempranillo (1995) Chicago Solo (1995) Toward the Margins (1996) Natives and Aliens (1996) Drawn Inward (1998) Chicago Tenor Duets (1998) Foxes Fox (1999) Birds and Blades (2002) Naan Tso (2004) Rex, Wrecks & XXX (2011) Either Or And (2013)
Live albums	At the Unity Theatre (1975) Saxophone Solos (1975) The London Concert (1975) From Saxophone & Trombone (1980) Six of One (1980) The Ayes Have It (1983 & 1991) Atlanta (1986) Three Blokes (1992) 50th Birthday Concert (1994) McPhee/Parker/Lazro (1995) At the Vortex (1996) Unity Variations (1998) After Appleby (1999) Lines Burnt in Light (2001) Memory/Vision (2002) The Bishop's Move (2003) America 2003 (2003) The Eleventh Hour (2004) Boustrophedon (2004) The Moment's Energy (2007) Hasselt (2010) Dortmund Variations (2010) The Bleeding Edge (2010) Live at Maya Recordings Festival (2011) Rocket Science (2012) What/If/They Both Could Fly (2012) As the Wind (2012) Music for David Mossman (2016)
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