Boustrophedon is a live album by free jazz saxophonist and composer Evan Parker and the Transatlantic Art Ensemble, featuring Roscoe Mitchell, recorded in Germany in September 2004 and released on ECM in 2008.
ECM recommended Parker and Roscoe Mitchell, and the two were then commissioned to prepare music for an ensemble which would be hand-picked by the two of them, for concerts to be held in Munich in September 2004.
"[3] The AllMusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 3½ stars stating "This music is not jazz -- free or otherwise -- nor is it merely classical formalism or improvisation deconstruction.
[4] Writing for The Guardian, John Fordham praised "the seamless joining of conventionally tonal music (even some jazzy phrasing and riffing) with a spikier vocabulary and some startling solos from all across the contemporary-music soundscape" and called the album "a triumph for Parker, who's known a few in his revolutionary career.
"[5] In a review for All About Jazz, Budd Kopman wrote: "What is fascinating is how expertly Parker has merged composition... with improvisation... As the music unfolds, and the individual parts and lines in varying registers come together, the result sounds directed and controlled, hence composed.