Live at Maya Recordings Festival

Live at Maya Recordings Festival is a live album by saxophonist Evan Parker, double bassist Barry Guy, and drummer Paul Lytton. It was recorded during September 23–25, 2011, at the Theater am Gleis in Winterthur, Switzerland, and was released on both vinyl and CD in 2013 by NoBusiness Records.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
DownBeat
All About Jazz
The Free Jazz Collective
Tom Hull – on the Web	A−

The editors of DownBeat awarded the album a full 5 stars, with reviewer Michael Jackson commenting: "if you know this trio you'll know what to expect." DownBeat's January 2014 "Best Album" feature included the album in the "Masterpiece" category, noting its "colossal displays of extended virtuosity."

John Sharpe of All About Jazz called the album "another top notch entry" in "an already distinguished discography," with the musicians "convers in a language entirely of their own making, which relies on a staggering density of ideas, chops to burn and a preternatural responsiveness."

The Free Jazz Collective's Martin Schray stated that the album "presents the trio at its best," and remarked: "they are a well-greased machine, an improvising entity, a true trio – with a drummer that stirs the shit, a bass that provides an irresistible pulse (plus some extra surprises) and a saxophonist who does not use this context for selfish solos but for tight and spontaneous interaction looking for new pastures."

Writing for Dusted Magazine, Derek Taylor commented: "Even when all three are racing at a collective sprint the music never fails to breathe or flow. It's in this particular facet where their shared experience shows most."

In an article for The New York City Jazz Record, Andrey Henkin noted that the "trio never loses a sense of dynamism... there are no dead spots, those dithering moments that infect low-grade improvisational music. The tropes that come up are not conciliatory but challenging and the audible comfort level between the musicians requires everyone to be fully participatory."

JazzWord's Ken Waxman stated that "anyone who claims that experimental music lacks emotion must hear" the album, and praised "the combination of precision and passion that also marks the most accomplished string quartet performance."

Writing for The Absolute Sound, Jeff Wilson described the album as "an all-out, no-holds barred performance that bristles with live energy," and commented: "The communication among the trio as well as their use of dynamics is exceptional... one gets the impression that this long-running trio gave it everything they had artistically and physically."

Track listing

Music composed by Evan Parker, Barry Guy, and Paul Lytton.

"Obsidian" – 22:31
"Chert" – 13:11
"Gabbro" – 17:29
"Scoria" – 8:21

Personnel

Evan Parker – soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
Barry Guy – double bass
Paul Lytton – drums

References

"Evan Parker / Barry Guy / Paul Lytton: Live at Maya Recordings Festival". AllMusic. Retrieved April 22, 2023.
"Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Paul Lytton - Live at Maya Recordings Festival". Jazz Music Archives. Retrieved April 22, 2023.
"Live at Maya Recordings Festival (LP)". NoBusiness Records. Retrieved April 22, 2023.
"Live at Maya Recordings Festival (CD)". NoBusiness Records. Retrieved April 22, 2023.
"NoBusiness discography: CD releases". JazzLists. Retrieved April 22, 2023.
^ Jackson, Michael (October 2013). "Reviews". DownBeat. p. 52.
^ Sharpe, John (June 16, 2013). "Evan Parker/Barry Guy/Paul Lytton: Live At Maya Recordings Festival". All About Jazz. Retrieved April 22, 2023.
^ Schray, Martin (May 20, 2013). "Evan Parker Trio: Live At Maya Recordings Festival". The Free Jazz Collective. Retrieved April 22, 2023.
Hull, Tom. "Jazz (1960–70s) (Reference)". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved April 22, 2023.
"Best Albums: Masterpieces". DownBeat. January 2014. p. 47.
Taylor, Derek (December 18, 2013). "Evan Parker/Barry Guy/Paul Lytton — Live at Maya Recordings Festival (No Business)". Dusted. Retrieved April 22, 2023.
Henkin, Andrey (September 2013). "Reviews" (PDF). The New York City Jazz Record. p. 21.
Waxman, Ken (December 8, 2013). "Evan Parker / Barry Guy / Paul Lytton". JazzWord. Retrieved April 22, 2023.
Wilson, Jeff (July 16, 2014). "Putting Some English on Jazz". The Absolute Sound. Retrieved April 22, 2023.

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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)

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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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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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