Talk:Evan Parker

message: I am not sure about the rest of the musicians listed in the "Pop Music" section of this article, but Mr. Parker's work with Spring Hee Jack is hardly what I could define as pop music. Though they emerged as a drum'n bass artist, their recordings with Parker are much more in the vein of his free improv music than it is in traditional drum'n bass (a music genre which still can be hardly classified as "pop"). Though his playing is a little more subdued than a typical Evan Parker outing, the music is nonetheless eons away from being "pop".
I propose that that the Pop music section be reconsidered and possibly revamped by someone more articulate and knowledgable than I in order to clear up any sort of misunderstanding that this heading may cause.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.187.196.88 (talk) 07:14, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I see your point, though certainly some of the collaborations detailed in this section could plausibly be described as forays into the pop-music world. I do wonder about whether the statement that he "has also increasingly become interested in electronics, usually through inviting collaborators … to electronically process his playing in real time" properly belongs here, either, since many other musicians far removed from the pop-music field have done this sort of thing (e.g., William O. "Bill" Smith, Terry Riley, or Pierre Boulez). It looks like there may have been some confusion on the part of an editor between live-electronic music in general, and the specific genre of electronica, even if one name mentioned here (Phil Wachsmann) does happen to be associated with that genre. Unfortunately I, too, feel less knowledgable about the redlinked names than I would like, in order to be able to reliably sort out this problem.—Jerome Kohl (talk) 21:38, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I took some of the text about electronics out of the pop music section. SethTisue (talk) 01:35, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pop Music??? 

message: Why does this article not have a discography? Such a section could include his album The Snake Decides which, as you can see, has its own page on Wikipedia. I am not familiar with Parker's work, so cannot create such a section. HairyWombat (talk) 15:57, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Basically, because no-one has bothered to make one.  As for why that is, it's because his discography is enormous, and the 'external links' section already links to a comprehensive one.   --Richardrj talk email 20:16, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why no discography? 

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