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Billy Parker

New Music From Bailis, Petrillo, Ortiz & More

by Bob Osborne
August 28, 2025

A selection of brand new releases from around the world together with four more great examples from the recent re-issue of the Strata-East catalogue provides for a fascinating two hours of music. Playlist David Bailis “Ordinary Trash" from Running Through My Mind (Create or Destroy) 00:00 Pat Petrillo “Late Night Diner" from Contemporaneous ...

Freedom Of Speech

By Billy Parker's Fourth World

Label: Strata East / Pure Pleasure
Released: 2018
Track listing: Dance Of The Little Children; Gemini’s Lullabye; Home; Get With It; Freedom Of Speech.

Buddy Terry: Awareness

by Chris May
August 4, 2018

Strictly niche in 2018, and on the margins even during his early 1970s heyday, New Jersey's Buddy Terry was among the cohort of soul-jazz musicians who, inspired by the rise of the black consciousness movement in the late 1960s, elected to recalibrate and repurpose their music. The new aesthetic became known as freedom jazz (and, later, ...

Norman Connors: Love From The Sun

by Chris May
June 17, 2018

Love From The Sun is the last unalloyed jazz album recorded by drummer, composer and bandleader Norman Connors under his own name, before he changed course towards R&B and then descended--yes, let us embrace a judgemental moment--into the quagmires of disco and smooth jazz. In autumn 1973, when this album was recorded, Connors, who had made ...

Billy Parker's Fourth World: Freedom Of Speech

by Chris May
April 27, 2018

Drummer Billy Parker's 1975 album only tangentially connects to Fourth World music, the pancultural style which was given its name five years later by Jon Hassell on Fourth World Vol. 1: Possible Musics (Editions EG, 1980), the trumpeter's first collaboration with Brian Eno. Parker's Fourth World is the name of the band heard on Freedom Of ...