Jack Wright - Evan Lipson

The Europe Tour Nov. 3-19 was a blazing success. Manchester, Sheffield, Cheltenham, Birmingham, London, Lille (Jack solo and with others) then Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Brussels, Ghent, Hamburg, and Denmark: Soderburg, Toftlund, and Copenhagen

Most recently (August 2025) they played a number of shows in the Southeast, five of them with Asheville vibraphonist Adam Lion. This video of their duo in New Orleans captures their precision and close integration.

Selection from their CD Careening Down the Left Coast, recorded in San Francisco on their West Coast tour Feb. 2018

Jack and Evan have been musically connected ever since the mid-2000's when Evan lived in Jack's Spring Garden Music House in Philadelphia. They've toured frequently together throughout the Midwest and Southeast as Wrest with Ben Bennett, and with Zach Darrup as Roughhousing, through 2018.

On their West Coast tour in Feb. 2018, they performed in Vanouver, at the Seattle Festival of Improvised Music, in Olympia , Portland, Corvalis, Eugene, Arcata, Grass Valley, San Francisco, Bezerkely, and Oakland. They will be collaborating with numerous musicians en route, among them Dylan van der Schyff, Torsten Muller, Greg Kelley, Mark Kaylor, Doug Theriault, Tom Djll, Tim Perkis, Bryan Day, and Gino Robair

Jack Wright (b. 1942) is a saxophone extremist, dedicated to to free playing since 1979. Described twenty years ago as an "undergrounder by design," he is a veteran improviser based mainly in Philadelphia. He has played mostly on tour through the US and Europe since the early 80s in search of interesting partners and playing situations. Now at 83 he is still the "Johnny Appleseed of Free Improvisation," as guitarist Davey Williams called him in the 80s, on the road as much as ever. He continues to inspire players outside music-school careerdom, playing sessions with visiting and resident players old and new. His partners over the years are mostly unknown to the music press, and too numerous to mention. He's said to have the widest vocabulary of any saxophonist, including leaping pitches, punchy, precise timing, sharp and intrusive multiphonics, surprising gaps of silence, and obscene animalistic sounds. He was interviewed recently by Cadence Magazine, but for a true assessment of his and his partners music and for links to his writings (including The Free Musics) go here: Spring Garden Music,

Evan Lipson Evan Lipson (b. 1981) has lived with the incurable disease of music since early adolescence, seeking the liminal realms in which intellect and instinct, history and myth, and creative and destructive force intersect. Drawn towards aberrant perspectives at an early age, his formative activities were primarily rooted in extreme and discordant forms stemming from various traditions of “underground” and ancient musics. He may or may not have some degree of affiliation with Rev. Fred Lane in addition to a social scientific think tank known as MEINSCHAFT.

Other currently active projects include RAWL, Wrest, Roughhousing, Virtual Balboa, and various ongoing collaborations with David Greenberger (Duplex Planet). Past units include Normal Love, Satanized, and Peckerwood Junction (feat. Jim Goad).

“It's Disaster Amnesiac's wish that in, say, one hundred years, musicians such as Evan Lipson and their contributions to a truly creative culture are discussed and valued.” -Mark Pino (Disaster Amnesiac)

. For links to his music and more info on his partners over the years go to Evan Lipson

left to right : Deranged, Wooden, Self-assured

For bookings: jackwri555 at gmail dot com