COMPANY "BBC STUDIOS, MAY 1983"

While preparing this post I got confused a bit. Got this with a text file which states 11 items but my version has 12. The point of consideration are tracks 5 and 6. The list coming with the CD-r I've got years ago says there's only tr. 5 ( EP-HD-JL). But the folder contained also tr. 6 (EP-JL).
Maybe the performance of the trio was split into two separate tracks? And I cannot hear Hugh Davies on track 6. So it seems the way it is offered here might be accurate enough. Maybe someone can shed some light on this...Andy?

I left the short announcements which are obviously truncated - but better some meagre crumps of hopefully reliable information than none at all.
Interestingly this recording is not mentioned in Ben Watson's book on Derek Bailey, although it has a particular chapter on Company concerts and recordings.
There is an official Company recording from the I.C.A., London, 24-28 May 1983, which is also the only Company never reissued.


But the music is great and IMO that's what is important.


Jon Corbett, trumpet
Vinko Globokar, trombone, vocals
Evan Parker, soprano & tenor saxophone
Hugh Davies, electronics
J.D. Parran, piccolo flute, alto clarinet
Peter Brötzmann, tenor & baritone saxophone, clarinet, tarogato
Derek Bailey, guitar
Ernst Reijseger, cello
Joelle Léandre, double bass, vocals
Jamie Muir, percussion


01. EP-HD-JM 7:05
02. DB-JL 4:24
03. Announcement Speaker 0:46
04. DB-JM 6:41
05. EP-HD-JL 4:03
06. EP-JL 2:23
07. Announcement Speaker 0:11
08. JP-PB-JC-VG 6:11
09. Announcement Speaker 0:05
10. DB-ER 6:04
11. DB-JM-JP-PB-JC-VG-ER 11:52
12. Announcement Speaker 0:06

Recorded at the BBC Studios, London on May 23, 1983.

Anthony Davis Quintet “Episteme” - Live in Botticino '09

During the end of the seventies and the early eighties A.Davis
was a usual presence on the scene of the avant-gard jazz : in
those years he was a member of The Leo Smith Ens., The
George Lewis Ens., The Leroy Jenkins Trio, co-leaded a
quartet with James Newton and his own Ens. Episteme.
From the half of the eighties he devoted his activity into
modern classical music, becoming an internationally known
composer of operatic, symphonic, choral, and chamber works.
Here you can listen to the world premiere of his new Episteme
Ensemble performing some new compositions and the old
(first rec. 1976) "Of Blues And Dreams". The encore (for trio)
is a wonderful version of Monk's Evidence to demonstrate how
still strong are his roots in jazz music. Great Concert.

Rec. live at "Crosscurrent", Botticino (Brescia), Italy,
on October 30, 2009 - World Premiere (radio broadcast)

Anthony Davis,piano
J.D. Parran,clarinet & bass clarinet
Mark Feldman,violin
Lisle Ellis,bass
Gerry Hemingway,drums,marimba & vibraphone

1. Of Blues And Dreams [A.Davis] (16:52)
2. Sudden Death [A.Davis] (19:09)
3. Loss [A.Davis] (21:55)
4. The Dream Of The Spider [A.Davis & D.Prieto] (14:02)
5. Evidence [T.Monk] (07:55)

Total Time 1:19:56