# CD review: Evan Parker, John Edwards, Steve Beresford, Mark Sanders – Foxes Fox 2020: Video, CD cover

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2020/04/25/cd-review-evan-parker-john-edwards-steve-beresford-mark-sanders-foxes-fox-2020-video-cd-cover/
- Published: 2020-04-25T18:51:22+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**Areappearance for the quartet that made the Foxes Fox album for the Emanem label
in 1999 – which was a showcase for Evan Parker, one of Europe’s most original sax
innovators out of the Coltrane/Pharoah Sanders school, but also a demonstration 
of accessible free-improv, thanks in large part to the dramatic and impassioned 
percussion-playing of South African drummer Louis Moholo. **

Steve Beresford (piano) and John Edwards (bass) completed the lineup then, and they
return for these four tracks, made last year, to mark Moholo’s move back to South
Africa. Three songs are long – the opener is 31 minutes.

However, the constant urging of Moholo’s swing, the splashy high-note effects of
Beresford and the elemental roar of Edwards’ bass provides a dramatic landscape 
for Parker’s restlessly inventive journeys. The title track’s half-hour odyssey 
is full of surging collective energy, varied by spacious, reflective episodes and
startling sound effects. The shorter Slightly Foxed is patient and quieter, revolving
around Parker’s short-burst phrasing and Moholo’s tom-tom rumbles. Fierce free-jazz,
but majestically compelling.

1. Foxes Fox 29:31

**Evan Parker – saxophone**
 **John Edwards- double bass** **Steve Beresford – piano****
Mark Sanders – drums**

![Foxes Fox | Vortex Jazz Club](https://i0.wp.com/f4.bcbits.com/img/a0057093787_10.
jpg?w=640&ssl=1)

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