The Bleeding Edge is a live album by saxophonist Evan Parker, cellist Okkyung Lee, and trumpeter Peter Evans, three musicians from different continents, playing instruments of different families (woodwind, string, brass).

There is everywhere here an alertness to the instant, to the new inference, but what makes it special is the individual and collective ability to knit this music together in extended units, initiating content as a matter of form, part of a continuum that will still be working itself out a few minutes and a thousand notes later.

"[5] Regarding the opening trio, John Eyles of All About Jazz stated: "It goes without saying that each of the players is a first-rate improviser, very experienced and adept at playing in such circumstances.

"[6] The editors of The New York City Jazz Record included the album in their "Best of 2012" feature,[7] and reviewer Ken Waxman commented: "The Bleeding Edge confirms that there's no generation gap among creative stylists... With each sequence blended into a sound mosaic, the edges here may be bleeding, but with minimum bloodiness and maximum improvisational circulation.

He remarked: "It's uncommon to find a recording in which the individual strengths of each player are so constantly apparent, yet also so difficult to unravel from one another...