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The exemplary free jazz saxophonist Evan Parker shows no signs of slowing down, and quite the opposite considering his three-concert series at Cafe OTO back in April as he celebrated his 80th birthday, while the four-disc set of solo improvisations The Heraclitean Two-Step, etc. - which besides his half-hour-long embouchure workouts includes a 120-page booklet of commentaries and interviews...

The vault might seem to connote a sense of authority, visions of round doors, time locks and bank currency or rows of booklets and stacks of boxes whose contents have been carefully packed away. Yet musically the prising open of a vault can prove a cacophonous and contentious affair. What should be scrapped or saved for posterity, who gets...

With its lilting grooves and wry lyrics on a perennial hot-button issue, when Sun Ra and his Arkestra recorded 'Nuclear War' in 1982 the bandleader took the cut straight to Columbia Records, thoroughly convinced that he had a hit on his hands. That summer New York City played host to the largest anti-nuclear protest to date and one of...