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William Parker - Hamid Drake: First Communion + Piercing The Veil / Summer Snow
by AAJ Italy Staff
Al momento della prima uscita di Piercing The Veil il “culto" di William Parker e Hamid Drake presso gli appassionati italiani di jazz non era ancora esploso in tutta la sua pienezza. Ancora impensabili erano le glorie della tre giorni romana di “New York Is Now" e dell'incredibile affetto con cui vengono ora seguite le loro frequenti apparizioni nei nostri festival e nelle nostre rassegne. Era allora l'inizio di aprile del 2000 e il mettere assieme - in un concerto ...
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by John Sharpe
William Parker's Raining On The Moon Bimhuis Amsterdam April 27, 2007
A beautiful Friday evening in Amsterdam drew to a close with William Parker's Raining On The Moon taking the stage in the fading light at the Bimhuis. Parker is the pre-eminent free jazz bassist on the New York downtown scene and should need no introduction to AAJ readers. The group comprises Parker's Quartet with longtime associates Hamid Drake on drums and frame drum, ...
Continue ReadingWilliam Parker and Hamid Drake: Summer Snow, volume 2
by Lyn Horton
The mere juxtaposition of the words summer and snow present a paradox infiltrated with energy. To move from the idea of one word to the other in itself requires a conscious shift in imagination. To invest meaning into the metaphor requires openness and belief in its potential dynamic. The duo of William Parker and Hamid Drake forges a bond that bolsters that dynamic in another release of their duo sessions called Summer Snow. When the two play, their sound is ...
Continue ReadingWilliam Parker & Hamid Drake: Summer Snow
by Troy Collins
Summer Snow is the second studio recording from the adroit rhythm team of bassist William Parker and percussionist Hamid Drake. Their first duo recording, the poly-ethnic exploration Piercing the Veil (AUM Fidelity, 2001), was recently reissued together with the previously unreleased live concert recording First Communion. This sequel finds the telepathic pair delving even deeper into indigenous cultural traditions for inspiration.
Parker and Drake expand further on the pan-global experiments of Don Cherry, Codona and the Art Ensemble ...
Continue ReadingWilliam Parker: The Other Side, Palm of Soul & Astrogeny Quartet
by Tom Greenland
Frode Gjerstad Trio The Other Side Ayler 2006 Kidd Jordan/Hamid Drake/William Parker Palm of Soul Aum Fidelity 2006 John Blum Astrogeny Quartet John Blum Astrogeny Quartet Eremite 2006
If you're looking for action “downtown" in creative music, it's a sure bet bassist William ...
Continue ReadingOther Dimensions in Music at the JVC Jazz Festival in Paris, Oct. 19-20
by John Sharpe
The Missing Link. That was the title of a 1990s Fred Anderson session, but it could be applied with even greater veracity to the NYC collective Other Dimensions in Music, for this tour encompassing the talents of William Parker, Roy Campbell, Daniel Carter and Hamid Drake, subbing for regular drummer Rashid Bakr.
The quartet members have been together since the early 1980s, playing as and when their increasingly busy schedules allow. Their credo, like the AACM's Great Black Music: Ancient ...
Continue ReadingWilliam Parker Bass Quartet featuring Charles Gayle: Requiem
by AAJ Italy Staff
Anni fa in alcuni ambienti accademici italiani nacque una discussione, innescata da un agente, sulla difficoltà estrema o l’opportunità di portare sul palco un collettivo di soli contrabbassi per gli inevitabili problemi di intonazione che, anche nel caso di musicisti molto preparati, una simile formazione pone. William Parker, Alan Silva, Sirone e Henry Grimes hanno scavalcato a piè pari il problema. Requiem, il nuovo colpo messo a segno da Giorgio Mortarino nelle vesti di produttore, e registrato dal vivo al ...
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