Evan Shaw Parker (born 5 April 1944 in Bristol) is a British free-improvising saxophone player from the European free jazz scene. Influences His original inspiration was Paul Desmond, and in recent years the influence of cool jazz saxophone players has again become apparent in his music ? there are tributes to Warne Marsh and Lee Konitz on Time Will Tell (ECM, 1993) and Chicago Solo (Okkadisk, 1997). Later work Parker is better known, however, for his later work, which rapidly assimilated the American avantgarde ? John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Albert Ayler and others ? and forged his own, instantly identifiable style. His music of the 1960s and 1970s is harsh, raw and unsettling, involving fluttering, swirling lines that have shape rather than tangible melodic content; sometimes he makes use of pure sound in a manner that recalls Steve Lacy's more radical 1970s recordings or the work of some AACM mem