Friends and colleagues since the late ’70s, Evan Parker and John Zorn are two of contemporary music’s most uncompromising saxophone innovators, and here they collaborate on a surprising and long overdue studio project.
Recorded in New York and Britain from 2025 to 2026 Those Landings is an achingly beautiful exploration of modern reed music with an ambient touch from two radical musical philosophers who use the saxophone as a sound source.
Rather than focusing on traditional jazz forms, Parker and Zorn treat the saxophone as a source of texture, atmosphere and sound itself, creating music that feels exploratory, intimate and unexpectedly beautiful. A long-overdue collaboration between two of contemporary…