Phillips, Butcher, Liavik - We met - and then (2021)

Barre Phillips, John Butcher, Ståle Liavik Solberg
We met - and then
2021 - Relative Pitch Records: RPR1122
http://www.relativepitchrecords.com/
https://relativepitchrecords.bandcamp.com/album/we-met-and-then
https://johnbutcher1.bandcamp.com/album/we-met-and-then-2



* Barre Phillips : double bass
* John Butcher : tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
* Ståle Liavik Solberg : drums

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barre_Phillips
http://www.johnbutcher.org.uk/
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/st%C3%A5le-liavik-solberg-mn0003371422

Tracks 1-3
recorded by Stig Gunnar Ringen at Blow Out Festival,
Deichmanske Grünerløkka, Oslo, Norway, on August 15, 2019.

Tracks 4-6
recorded by Oliver Künzner at Offene Ohren, Einstein Kultur,
Münich, Germany, concert organized by Hannes Schneider with
support by Kulturreferat München, on November 3, 2018.

Reviews

By Bill Shoemaker
https://pointofdeparture.org/PoD76/PoD76MoreMoments2.html

[...]

Of the drummers on these discs, it is Ståle Liavik Solberg that comes closest
to the appealing contrasts inherent in playing a reduced kit of small drums and
the occasional embrace of rudiments that largely distinguished John Stevens’
work when Butcher was a member of Spontaneous Music Ensemble. He provides
enough forward momentum for the saxophonist to engage with Barre Phillips
primarily through textures, of which they both have abundant
inventories. Throughout the seamlessly joined excerpts from two concerts, there
is the anticipation that the building intensities will loose with free jazz
abandon for extended periods, which never quite happens. These pinnacles prove
to be another area for Butcher, Phillips, and Solberg to deliberate their next
moves, which they tend to make in short order. Pacing is an essential
ingredient for a satisfying disc of freely improvised music, a quality very
much in evidence on We Met – And Then.

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By Stuart Broomer
https://www.freejazzblog.org/2021/09/barre-phillips-john-butcher-stale.html

By Bruce Lee Gallanter
https://www.downtownmusicgallery.com/newsletter_detail.php?newsID=2831

By John Sharpe
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/we-met-and-then-phillips-butcher-solberg-relative-pitch-records

By Eyal Hareuveni
https://salt-peanuts.eu/record/barre-phillips-john-butcher-stale-liavik-solberg/

By Edwin Pouncey
https://www.jazzwise.com/review/john-butcher-barre-philips-stale-liavik-solberg-we-met-and-then

NoFuck (pl)
https://spontaneousmusictribune.blogspot.com/2021/06/phillips-butcher-solberg-we-met-and-then.html

Arild R. Andersen (no)
https://jazzinorge.no/anmeldelse/tre-soyler-tre-generasjoner/

Par Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg (fr)
https://orynx-improvandsounds.blogspot.com/2021/09/cecil-taylor-ensemble-gottingen-tom.html

Par Franpi Barriaux (fr)
https://www.citizenjazz.com/Butcher-Philips-Solberg.html