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Music for David Mossman: Live at Vortex London is a live album by saxophonist Evan Parker, double bassist Barry Guy, and drummer Paul Lytton. It was recorded on July 14, 2016, at the Vortex Jazz Club in London, and was released in 2018 by Intakt Records. The album is dedicated to the founder of the Vortex, who died in December 2018.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
DownBeat
All About Jazz
The Free Jazz Collective
Jazzwise

In a review for DownBeat, Martin Longley wrote: "Even though these players all are hovering around age 70, they each play with the tempestuousness of younger men, adding expansive layers, resulting from years of experience."

John Sharpe of All About Jazz called the album "a dazzling account from a superlative threesome revealing a hitherto underappreciated emotional dimension to the richly-detailed tapestry they weave."

The Free Jazz Collective's Martin Schray described the recording as "music of an incredible density, music that varies harmonies and tempos constantly, music that changes its shape," and noted: "Hardly ever have these excellent musicians shown such a disposition to integrate their individual sounds and typical patterns to an all-encompassing unity."

Writing for Jazzwise, Daniel Spicer stated: "the three of them trade in a dense, information-rich music through which they seem to achieve the holy grail of free-improvisation: the group mind."

In an article for JazzTimes, Thomas Conrad commented: "The excitement comes from the spikes and crescendos, but even more from the overwhelming extravagance of detail. You can drown in the seas of this trio... Parker, Guy and Lytton celebrate the act of making music itself. They celebrate sound itself. Noise and melody are not as different as we thought."

Point of Departure's Jason Bivins stated that the album "is as powerful as anything the trio have done in recent years," and remarked: "the trio never lingers overlong in any particular place, nor do they change arbitrarily or too rapidly. It's as exploratory and organic as ever... There remains nothing like this group. Truly glorious."

Derek Taylor of Dusted Magazine wrote that the album is "affirmation that free isn't just a face value signifier, but something deeper and more elemental. With maestros such as Parker, Guy and Lytton it's a mantra that means every encounter will contain the means for finding something worthwhile and apart regardless of what's arisen before from their enduring associations."

In a review for The Whole Note, Stuart Broomer noted that the album's "dominant texture is that of philosophical dialogue, a rapid conversation in which participants discourse while responding to the simultaneous intrusions of partners in the fray, who may quibble or launch counter-offensives, sending the first speaker to submit background material or new support for his previous theses."

Track listing

"Music for David Mossman I" – 12:50
"Music for David Mossman II" – 11:58
"Music for David Mossman III" – 24:15
"Music for David Mossman IV" – 12:29

Personnel

Evan Parker – saxophone
Barry Guy – double bass
Paul Lytton – drums

References

"Evan Parker / Barry Guy / Paul Lytton: Music for David Mossman: Live at Vortex London". AllMusic. Retrieved April 23, 2023.
"Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Paul Lytton - Music for David Mossman - Live at Vortex London". Jazz Music Archives. Retrieved April 23, 2023.
"Evan Parker - Barry Guy - Paul Lytton: Music for David Mossman (Live at Vortex London)". Intakt Records. Retrieved April 23, 2023.
Weindling, Oliver (December 10, 2018). "David Mossman – 17 July 1942 - 8 December 2018". Jazzwise. Retrieved April 23, 2023.
^ Longley, Martin (June 2018). "Reviews". DownBeat. p. 68.
^ Sharpe, John (September 2, 2018). "Evan Parker / Barry Guy / Paul Lytton: Music For David Mossman". All About Jazz. Retrieved April 23, 2023.
^ Schray, Martin (June 15, 2018). "Evan Parker/Barry Guy/Paul Lytton - Music for David Mossman". The Free Jazz Collective. Retrieved April 23, 2023.
^ Spicer, Daniel. "Evan Parker/Barry Guy/Paul Lytton - Music for David Mossman". Jazzwise. Retrieved April 22, 2023.
Conrad, Thomas (May 22, 2018). "Evan Parker/Barry Guy/Paul Lytton: Music for David Mossman: Live at Vortex London (Intakt)". JazzTimes. Retrieved April 23, 2023.
Bivins, Jason (June 2018). "Moment's Notice: Reviews of Recent Recordings". Point of Departure. Retrieved April 23, 2023.
Taylor, Derek (February 6, 2018). "Evan Parker/Barry Guy/Paul Lytton – Music for David Mossman (Intakt)". Dusted. Retrieved April 23, 2023.
Broomer, Stuart (March 1, 2018). "Music for David Mossman - Evan Parker; Barry Guy; Paul Lytton". The Whole Note. Retrieved April 23, 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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