The first person to say ‘anarcho-jazz’ eats lead - John Peel, BFBS, 1 November 1992.
Earlier in the year, Terry Edwards had used a Peel Session to showcase a couple of numbers from his upcoming EP, Terry Edwards Executes Miles Davis Numbers. This cover of of the title track of Davis’s 1963 album didn’t feature in the Peel Session, but was worth the wait as far as I’m concerned.
I wouldn’t dream of describing it as anarcho-jazz, but Edwards and his colleagues have pulled off something pretty stupendous here by putting Davis’s rolling jazz shuffle through the Napalm Death blender and highlighting the link between jazz and noisecore. I wonder whether a copy of the Edwards EP found its way to Providence, Rhode Island because it sounds a lot like the sort of content which one of Peel’s favourite labels, Load Records used to put out. They began operations a year after the release of Terry Edwards Executes Miles Davis Numbers and if that isn’t proof of the Circle of Life, I don’t know what is.
Videos courtesy of Terry Edwards - Topic and Miles Davis.
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