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Veterans still in vanguard of free jazz virtuousity

Evan Parker, Paul Lytton and Barry Guy
Vortex Jazz Club, London N16

AT A packed Vortex, an engrossed audience listens intently, because there are 210 years of virtuoso musicianship within this trio.

Drummer Paul Lytton and bassist Barry Guy are both Londoners, born in 1947, and Bristol-born saxophonist Evan Parker was born in 1944.

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