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1997 studio album by Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Paul Lytton, and Marilyn Crispell

Natives and Aliens

Studio album by Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Paul Lytton, and Marilyn Crispell
Released	1997
Recorded	May 24, 1996
Studio	Gateway Studios, London
Genre	Free jazz
Label	Leo Records CD LR 243
Producer	Evan Parker, Leo Feigin

Natives and Aliens is an album by the members of the Evan Parker Trio (saxophonist Evan Parker, bassist Barry Guy, and drummer Paul Lytton), with guest pianist Marilyn Crispell. It was recorded on May 24, 1996, at Gateway Studios in London, and was released in 1997 by Leo Records.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
The Penguin Guide to Jazz
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

In a review for AllMusic, Stewart Mason wrote: "these 11 tracks are fluid, small-group improvisations that slot Crispell neatly into the practiced interplay of Parker's trio... The Evan Parker Trio, as always, play with the intuition and improvisatory grace that comes when skilled musicians are in tune with each other's idiosyncracies, giving Natives and Aliens a light -- almost swinging, in the old-school sense -- touch that's often missing in this brand of modern jazz."

The authors of the Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings awarded the album 3½ stars, and stated: "it's interesting to hear Parker, so long devoted to the microtonal devastation of Western harmony, woking in the context of an instrument with fixed pitches." They wrote that Crispell creates "huge, resonant chords which are difficult to analyse with any precision but into which the entire trio seems to be subsumed."

Track listing

"Stag's Horn" – 9:52
"Sumach" – 6:33
"Rhus" – 8:05
"Friends from Above" – 6:35
"Hirta" – 4:23
"Sippenaeken Visitation" – 8:22
"And the Tints" – 3:54
"A Deeper Red" – 1:46
"In Velvet" – 2:37
"Day of Small Truths" – 7:18
"Natives and Aliens" – 10:23

Personnel

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

References

"Parker/Guy/Lytton and Crispell: Natives and Aliens". Jazz Music Archives. Retrieved April 4, 2022.
"Evan Parker / Barry Guy / Paul Lytton / Marilyn Crispell : Natives and Aliens". Leo Records. Retrieved April 4, 2022.
^ Mason, Stewart. "Parker/Guy/Lytton/Crispell: Natives and Aliens". AllMusic. Retrieved April 4, 2022.
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. Penguin Books. p. 1123.
Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Oxford University Press. p. 623.

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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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