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.