SEYMOUR WRIGHT

seymour-dot-wright-at-gmail-dot-com


projects:


          solo

          @xcrswx (with Crystabel Riley)                    

          أحمد[AHMED] (with Pat Thomas, Joel Grip and Antonin Gerbal)                    

          GUO (with Daniel Blumberg)                    

          XT (with Paul Abbott)                    

                 Kavain Wayne Space [aka RPBoo]/XT Trio                    

                 Anne Gillis/XT Trio                    

                 Pat Thomas/XT Trio                    

          The X-Ray Hex Tet                    

          The Creaking Breeze Ensemble with Nathaniel Mackey                    

          lll人 (with Daichi Yoshikawa and Paul Abbott)                    

          othergroups                    




RELEASES/SOUNDS                                                  PHOTO                                    INTERVIEW                                    WRITING































































































































































































































































































    on bandcamp



    RITES


(alto saxophone solos 2003-2023)



    Is This Right?


(alto saxophone solos 2014-2017)



    SEYMOUR WRITES BACK


(alto saxophone solos 2008-2014)



    Seymour Wright of Derby


(alto saxophone solos 2005-2008)



































       

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     2024 أحمد[Ahmed], 'Giant Beauty', 5-CD, boxset fönstret


        
     

     2024 أحمد[Ahmed], 'Wood Blues', 2-LP, Astral Spirits


        
     

     2024 Kavain Wayne Space/XT Trio, 'YESYESPEAKERSYES', LP, Feedback Moves


        
     

     2024 lll人, 'VICTOR', 2-CD, Infant Tree .


        
     

     2023 @xcrswx/Lolina, 'FIXES/FM', 10" split, Feedback Moves.


        
     

     2023 Anne Gillis/XT Trio, 'Our/s Bouture(s)', CD, Art Into Life .


        
     

     2023 Seymour Wright, 'RITES (alto saxophone solos 2003-2023), 4-CD boxset, self-released.


        
     

     2023 Nate Wooley, 'Four Experiments', 4-CD boxset, Pleasure of Text - 'Experiment Four Solo'.


        
     

     2022 أحمد[Ahmed], 'AHAD/WAHID', 7", CBP.


        
     

     2022 Pat Thomas/XT Trio and Will Holder, '“Akisakila” / Attitudes of Preparation (Mountains, Oceans, Trees)', 2-LP, Edition Gamut.


        
     

     2022 Steve Noble/Seymour Wright, 'EVF', CD, Ping Pong.


        
     

     2022 XT, 'Deorlaf Obrux', download, TUSK


        
     

     2021 أحمد[Ahmed], 'Nights On Saturn (Communication)', LP, Astral Spirits


        
     

     2021 Nathaniel Mackey and the Creaking Breeze Ensemble , 'Fugitive Equation', 2-CD, FonoGraf Editions/CB


        
     

     2021 XT, 'Deorlaf X', LP, OTORoku


        
     

     2020 @xcrswx, 'Call Time/Hard Out', 7", Feedback Moves


        
     

     2020 Steve Noble/John Chantler/Seymour Wright, 'Atlantis', LP/CD, 1703 Skivbolaget


        
     

     2019 أحمد[Ahmed], 'Super Majnoon (East Meets West)', 2-LP, Otoroku


        
     

     2019 GUO, 'GUO4', LP, Mute


        
     

     2019 XT, 'Palina’tufa', 2-LP, Empty Editions


        
     

     2019 RPBoo/XT Trio, ‘XT and RPBOO 31/12/18’, DL, Otoroku


        
     

     2018 Andy Guthrie/Seymour Wright, 'Chelsea Bridge', CD, Winds Measure


        
     

     2018 Container/XT Trio, ‘Container & XT 9.8.18’, DL, Otoroku


        
     

     2017 أحمد[Ahmed], 'New Jazz Imagination', LP, Umlaut


        
     

     2017 GUO, 'GUO1', CD, self-released


        
     

     2017 John Chantler/Steve Noble/Seymour Wright, 'Front and Above', CD, 1703 Skivbolaget


        
     

     2016 XT, 'Pah'', CD, Pleasure of the Text


        
     

     2016 Evan Parker/Seymour Wright, 'Tie The Stone To The Wheel', CD, Fataka


        
     

     2015 Seymour Wright, 'Seymour Writes Back (alto saxophone solos 2008-2014', 4-CD, self-released


        
     

     2015 lll人, 'Vjerhanxsk', 2-CD, self-released


        
     

     2014 lll人, 'Gjērhan', LP, Otoroku


        
     

     2013 Nate Wooley/Seymour Wright, 'About Trumpet and Saxophone', CD, Fataka


        
     

     2012 Eddie Prévost, Sebastian Lexer/Seymour Wright, 'Impossibility In Its Purest Form', CD, Matchless (DL, here)


        
     

     2010 Keith Rowe/Martin Küchen/Seymour Wright, 'Küchen_Rowe_Wright', CD, Another Timbre


        
     

     2009 SUM (Eddie Prévost/Ross Lambert/Seymour Wright), 'Invenio Ergo', 2-CD, Matchless (DL, here)


        
     

     2008 Seymour Wright, 'Seymour Wright of Derby', CD, self-released


        
     

     2008 Eddie Prévost/Seymour Wright, 'GAMUT', CD, Matchless (DL, here)


        
     

     2008 Sebastian Lexer/Seymour Wright, 'Blasen', CD, Another Timbre


        
     

     2008 Keith Rowe/Seymour Wright, '3D', 3-CDr, W.M.O./r.


        
     

     2004 Broken Hands/Lucky Rabbit, 'Lucky Hands', CD, Twothousandand.


        
     

     2003 9!, 'NONE(-T)', CD, Matchless (DL, here)


        
     

     2003 Lucky Rabbit (Ross Lambert/Seymour Wright), 'Lucky Rabbit', CD, Twothousandand.


        
     

     2002 Tetuzi Akiyama/Toshimaru Nakamura/Seymour Wright, 'Meeting at Off Site Vol. 1', CD, reset/IMJ (listen here)


        
     

     2001 John Lely/Yann Charaoui/Seymour Wright, '396', CD, Matchless (DL, here)


        
     









































































































































     2024. 'Tony Oxley: Edges Collapsed'.


        The Wire (on-line).
     



     2024. 'New Jazz Nutation re: أحمد [Ahmed] 2014-2024'.


        WeJazz (Issue 11, Spring 2024, p. 36-43).




     2023. 'Charles Gayle 1939-2023'.


        WeJazz (Issue 10, Winter 2023, p. 57).




     2023. 'Jazz Taphonomy?'.


        WeJazz (Issue 08, Summer 2023, p. 22-27).




     2023. 'Amina Claudine Myers 1979'.


        WeJazz (Issue 07, Spring 2023, p. 12-13).




     2022. 'Pharoah Sanders 1940-2022'.


        WeJazz (Issue 06, Winter 2022, p. 48-51).




     2022. 'New Jazz Imagination: Seymour Wright On [Ahmed] And Music As A Medium Of Thought'.


        The Quietus (on-line).




     2022. 'On late(r) AMM'.


        The Wire. (Issue 461: 39).




     2021. 'A Short guide To Julius Hemphill'.


        The Wire (on-line).




     2021. 'Some Thoughts about Steve Lacy: An Illustrated Conversation Between Evan Parker and Seymour Wright'.


         in Tarche, G (Ed.), 'Steve Lacy (Unfinished)': 263-271.




     2021. 'The Hold'.


         in Tarche, G (Ed.), 'Steve Lacy (Unfinished)': 272-273.




     2019. 'Seymour Wright & Jean Luc Guionnet in conversation'.


        in Chantler, J. (Ed.) 'Notes On Other Music': 87-99.




     2019. 'On smelling music' [liner note].


        Zyklus. Umlaut/SAJ.




     2019. 'LP booklet insert, Announcement of Future Releases From Unit Core, Spring of Two Blue-Js, 1973, Cecil Taylor + 10 questions'


        in Gander, R and Watts, J. P. (Eds.) The Annotated Reader: 565-566.




     2018. 'Epiphanies [Nathaniel Mackey]'.


        The Wire. (Issue 409: 98)




     2018. 'On Intervivos' [liner note].


         Jean-Luc Guionnet/Daichi Yoshikawa. 'Intervivos'. Empty Editions.




     2017. 'Evan Parker: The Primer'.


        The Wire. (Issue 401: 30-38)




     2017. 'Lou Gare remembered'.


        The Wire (on-line).




     2015. 'Ritual Questionnaire'.


        Sound American (11).




     2014. 'Itenerant Ideas-ism'.


        Cesura//Acceso (1): 32-37.



     
2013. The Group Learning of an Original Creative Practice: 1960s Emergent-AMM.


        Unpublished PhD Thesis. Milton Keynes: Open University.











































































































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Seymour Wright

Seymour Wright photographed by Crystabel Riley, 2022













































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































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