Results for "Christopher Parker"

Henry Threadgill's Zooid, New No Business Releases & Christopher Parker

by Maurice Hogue
October 20, 2021

Two of the giants of the saxophone are featured in this episode of OMJ: Henry Threadgill and his longest-running band Zooid (he plays more with this band than others) and the late, great Sam Rivers from his archive of unrecorded music released by NoBusiness Records. Rivers leads one of his not-too-common guitar quartets. Also from NoBusiness ...

Soojin Suh, Damon Locks, Gretchen Parlato, Daniele Sepe & Other New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
March 12, 2021

This week we feature plenty of jazz for social justice, exciting piano players and young ensembles, unearthed live gems that are coming out during these COVID times both to remind us of the power of live music and to remedy the lack of new live recordings, and the album that confirms Gretchen Parlato's role in the ...

Nothing But Love - The Music of Frank Lowe

By Kelley Hurt

Label: Mahakala Music
Released: 2020
Track listing: Decision in Paradise Addiction Ain't Fiction In Trane's Name Fuschia Norval Inappropriate Choices The Flam Nothing But Love In Trane's Name - alternate Addiction Ain't Fiction - alternate

No Tears Suite

By Christopher Parker

Label: Mahakala Music
Released: 2020
Track listing: Overture (By the Numbers) To Be a Kid Roll Call Don't Cry (Warrior's Song) Crisis Jubilate

Christopher Parker

Garden Party

By Alvin Fielder

Label: Mahakala Music
Released: 2019
Track listing: C Melody; Dopolaria; Father Dies, Son Dies; Garden Party; Guilty Happy; Improptu.

Christopher Parker: Full Circle

by Jakob Baekgaard
July 1, 2014

Pianist Chris Parker is a musical explorer. He has travelled around the world musically and as his latest album Full Circle indicates, he has reached his destination and found an aesthetic where all the different aspects of his musical curiosity come together. While Parker travels a lot musically, he doesn't visit the melancholy ...

Christopher Parker: Full Circle

by Dan McClenaghan
June 24, 2014

Pianist Chris Parker's second CD release on OA2 Records, Full Circle, sounds like an exciting live set full of vigorous life, something that engages the crowd and gets them up out of their seat, dancing. It's a quintet--common enough in jazz--with the uncommon use of violin in the front line beside the saxophone, reeling out unison ...

Paul Simon: The Complete Albums Collection

by John Kelman
January 11, 2014

If the history books were to be closed on singer/songwriter Paul Simon's career today, he'd have already left a legacy more than sufficient to ensure a substantial chapter. While other emergent songwriters of his day--Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan and Randy Newman amongst them--have clearly evolved over the years, there's been an underlying approach that's remained consistent ...

The Chris Parker Trio: The Chris Parker Trio

by Dan Bilawsky
October 8, 2013

Drummer Chris Parker has a to-die-for résumé. Over the past four decades, he's worked with everybody from the The Brecker Brothers to Miles Davis and Laura Nyro to Lou Rawls, taking a genre-blind approach to drumming that continues to serve him well. As a sideman, he's made his mark time and again with a who's who ...