Paul Lytton

Paul Lytton ( born March 8, 1947 in London ) is a British drummer of free jazz and free - improvised music.

Life and work

Lytton learned as an adolescent drums. He plays since the mid-1960s and in 1967 was a member of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra. He has been known since 1969 as a drummer in a duo or trio of the saxophonist Evan Parker ( with Derek Bailey and since 1983, with Barry Guy ); he also plays in Parker's Electro- Acoustic Ensemble ( Toward the Margins, 1998 and Memory / Vision 2002). He was a founding member of the London Musicians ' Coop and played in the London Jazz Composers ' Orchestra. The mid-seventies he moved to Belgium. Since 1976 he plays duets with his drums colleague Paul Lovens, the same year the label " Po Torch Records " founded on which they also documented their duo work, such as on the LP " Was it me? ". They play together in the Globe Unity Orchestra and occasionally occur with the Bremen improvisational quartet BIQ. He is co-founder of King Übü Örchestrü and also occurs in Ken Vander Marks Territory band. In 2006, he starred in Evan Parker's Transatlantic Art Ensemble ( Boustrophedon ) with.

Lytton is one of the main percussionists of the free music scene in Europe. He is also a developer and builder of new musical instruments and is also a live electronics, but occurred more recently in favor of a purely acoustic drum sets in the background.

Swell

  • Richard Cook: Jazz Encyclopedia. Penguin, London, 2007.
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