JORDINA MILLÀ - BARRY GUY Duo

JORDINA MILLÀ – BARRY GUY Duo

Bergamo jazz hosts for the first time one of the most imaginative minds of the most advanced European jazz, but not only, a central personality of improvised music since the late 1960s: the English Barry Guy. Summarising his frenetic activity in a few lines is limiting, to say the least. However, it is worth mentioning his collaborations with fellow countrymen Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, Paul Rutherford, Tony Oxley and Paul Lytton, and with Americans Cecil Taylor, Roscoe Mitchell and Marilyn Crispell. Chapter a sé is the London Jazz Composer’s Orchestra, one of the most shining experiences of integration between composition and improvisation that along its path has crossed Anthony Braxton's reeds and Irene Schweizer's piano. With a technical-expressive background that allows him a mastery of his instrument that has few equals, Barry Guy has also played with classical orchestras (The Orchestra of St. John’s Smith Square, City of London Sinfonia, Monteverdi Orchestra, The Academy of Ancient Music, Kent Opera, The London Classical Players) and with violinist Maya Homburger, his partner in life, he also explores the world of early music.

The association with Jordina Millà è quite recent: its inception dates back to 2017, when the English double bassist involved the Catalan pianist, a pupil of compatriot Agustì Fernandez, in an improvising ensemble assembled at Barcelona’s Mixtur Festival. Subsequently, the two musicians recorded String Fables, released in 2021 by the Polish label Fundacja Słuchaj. February 2022 saw the recording of the album Live In Munich, released last year by ECM. Listening to this latest disc reveals a perfect assonance of intentions that underlies an absolutely equal dialogue with palpable expressive tension, combining free improvisation with elements of classical-contemporary language.

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