Sandy Evans Trio

Sandy Evans - tenor and soprano saxophon

Brendan Clarke - bass

Toby Hall - drums

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Tracks

1. Mountview Click to hear a soundbyte ))) Evans

2. Circumbendibus Rapt Evans/Hirst

3. Te Kore Hirst

4. The Edge of Pleasure Evans

5. Bhairavi Tillana Click to hear a soundbyte )))
Sarngan Sriranganthan

6. Saha Evans

7. One For Harry Click to hear a soundbyte ))) Evans

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The title 'Edge of Pleasure' was inspired by the poem Coffee with Miles
by Geoff Page, published in Issue 1 of extempore

Coffee with Miles

I like the jazz in coffee bars
half-heard over steam and cream
the rough percussion of the grinder

the fluency of waitresses
floating on the beat.
I like the scratch of chairs on hardwood

the music bouncing back from glass
and outside on the pavement too
among the flowering of umbrellas

the way a tempo joins the traffic.
Miles and Coltrane, Clifford Brown
’54 to ’62

the saxophones and trumpets flying
like pennants over drums
Lee Morgan playing ‘Moanin’ still

before his girlfriend gunned him down.
Almost everyone in here
was born downstream of such events.

Drinkers sipping at their lattes
exchange a few small coins of scandal
or internet addresses.

They check the rates on business loans,
boast or moan about their kids,
often both at once.

No one here can really hear it
     except for me who caught it first
on vinyl in a soundproof room

six months from its creation.
No one’s listening and yet
the brittle arguments of Miles

and all the psalms of John Coltrane
supply here undiminished still
the edges of their pleasure.

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