After Appleby is a double-CD album by the members of the Evan Parker Trio (saxophonist Evan Parker, bassist Barry Guy, and drummer Paul Lytton), with guest pianist Marilyn Crispell.
The recordings took place immediately after the Appleby Jazz Festival, where the musicians performed in a variety of combinations.
Crispell can spurt fleetingly across the keyboard with clusters of notes, but she also shows a lyrical side that displays considerable depth.
But it's Evan who dominates the long pieces, locked in dialogue with the sounds around him, constantly listening and responding and wasting nothing on empty gesture.
"[4] Writing for All About Jazz, Glenn Astarita described the album as "a festive union of bleeding edge improvisational spirits," and commented: "these esteemed musicians perform a series of works that pretty much skirt the fringes of every conceivable tract of intuitive expressionism imaginable along with hearty injections of antagonistic interplay and understated themes... the overall synergy and balance amongst the musicians provides the listener with a thoroughly cohesive and somewhat awe-inspiring portraiture of top-flight workmanship... After Appleby should meet or perhaps exceed most of our expectations in a grand sort of way!