Three Blokes

Three Blokes is a live album by saxophonists Lol Coxhill, Steve Lacy and Evan Parker recorded in Berlin in 1992 and first released on the FMP label in 1994.[1][2][3][4]

Three Blokes
Live album by
Lol Coxhill, Steve Lacy and Evan Parker
ReleasedAugust 11, 1994
RecordedSeptember 25–27, 1992
VenueCharlottenburg Town Hall, Belin, Germany
GenreJazz
Length72:26
LabelFMP
FMP CD 63
ProducerJost Gebers
Lol Coxhill chronology
Solos East West
(1991)		 Three Blokes
(1994)		 Halim
(1993)
Steve Lacy chronology
We See
(1992)		 Three Blokes
(1992)		 Let's Call This... Esteem
(1993)
Evan Parker chronology
Process and Reality
(1991)		 Three Blokes
(1992)		 Conic Sections
(1993)

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[5]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[6]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[7]

AllMusic reviewer Thom Jurek states "This album documents three nights of a soprano saxophone throw-down in 1988 [sic] by three of the world's most infamous practitioners of the improviser's art on the instrument -- with Lacy being the unquestioned king of the straight horn. All the players led for one night; each grouped together all of the possible combinations in solo and duet forms, and then performed a brief trio piece as an encore. ... Three Blokes is not only compelling, it's riveting".[5]

The authors of Masters of Jazz Saxophone described the album as "a beautifully-recorded, unadorned three-soprano encounter."[8]

Track listing
  1. "The Crawl" (Evan Parker, Steve Lacy) – 16:27
  2. "Backslash" (Parker, Lacy) – 7:31
  3. "Glanced" (Lol Coxhill, Lacy) – 21:36
  4. "Broad Brush" (Parker, Coxhill) – 23:00
  5. "Three Blokes" (Lacy) – 3:53

Personnel

References
  1. European Free Improvisation: album details accessed July 16, 2018
  2. Jazzlists: Steve Lacy discography accessed July 16, 2018
  3. Steve Lacy discography accessed July 16, 2018
  4. Jazzlists: FMP discography: main FMP series of CDs accessed July 16, 2018
  5. Jurek, Thom. Three Blokes – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved July 16, 2018.
  6. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 315. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  7. Larkin, Colin (2006). Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Oxford University Press. p. 592.
  8. Gelly, Dave; Bacon, Tony (2000). Masters of Jazz Saxophone. Balaphon. p. 152.
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