French master double bass player Joëlle Léandre and British soprano and tenor sax master Evan Parker have accumulated more than one hundred years of experience playing free improvised music. Guitarist Derek Bailey brought them together into his company meetings, and their first recordings featured Bailey (28 Rue Dunois Juillet 1982, Fou, 2014, and Trios, Incus, 1986, re-released by Honest Jon’s 2019). They recorded again thirty years later in a quartet with Catalan pianist Agustí Fernández and Slovenian drummer Zlatko Kaučič (A Woman’s Work and A Uiš ?, Not Two, 2016 and 2020).
Long Bright Summer is Léandre and Parker’s first duo album. It was recorded (by Jean-Marc Foussat, Léandre’s favourite sound engineer, who also recorded 28 Rue Dunois Juillet 1982) at the vineyard Le
