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John Dikeman/William Parker/Hamid Drake

Live at La Resistenza

By John Dikeman/William Parker/Hamid Drake

Label: El Negocito Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Gratitude; Invocation; Bad Uncle John!; WY Funk.

John Dikeman/William Parker/Hamid Drake: Live at La Resistenza

by Mark Corroto
November 9, 2015

The subtitle to Charles Mingus' composition “Gunslinging Bird" is “If Charlie Parker was a gunslinger, there'd be a whole lot of dead copycats," refers to the great alto saxophonist's ability to dominate a bandstand and quiet any and all comers. Parker, who died in 1955, might not have known about automatic weapons, nor the free jazz ...