One consequence was that in 2008 the annual Freedom Of The City festival did not happen. Now, despite the parlous state of the economy, comes the good news that Freedom Of The City will return in 2009.
Curated by Evan Parker and Eddie Prevost, on May 3rd and 4th, this year's festival will return to Conway Hall in Red Lion Square. A typically packed programme features the cream of London's improvisers young and old, integrated with musicians from elsewhere in Britain and beyond. Perennial favourites include Lol Coxhill, Steve Beresford, John Butcher, and the London Improvisers Orchestra.
The performances of the curators Parker and Prevost themselves will attract as much attention as any others. Prevost will appear with John Tilbury, the two of them now the only members of AMM. On Sunday 3rd May, the duo appear with composer Christian Woolf, who first collaborated with AMM back in 1968.
Parker closes the festival on Monday 4th May in a quartet with John Russell and John Edwards plus exciting young trumpeter Peter Evans.
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