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