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Piercing The Veil

Label: Black Saint
Released: 2001

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Song Cycle

Label: Boxholder Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Footnote to a Dream/ Hunkpapa Song/ Baldwin?s Interlude/ Morning Moon/ For Julius Eastman/ Holiday for Flowers/ Life Song/ A Though for Silence/ Baldwin?s Interlude II/ Aborigine Song/ Cloud and Sea Fading as Rain Falls/ Invisible Pages/ Aborigine Song II/ Falling Shadows/ Band In the Sky.

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William Parker: Song Cycle

Read "Song Cycle" reviewed by Derek Taylor


With a reputation and creative resonance that continues to blossom William Parker has come along way since his beginnings in creative improvised music at the dawn of the 1970s. Much more than a formidable bassist, though it's through this persona that he's arguably garnered the most clout, each succeeding project and album continues to reveal the ...

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Mayor Of Punkville

Label: AUM Fidelity
Released: 2000
Track listing: Interlude #1 (The Next Phase); James Baldwin to the Rescue; Oglala Eclipse; I Can't Believe I Am Here; Interlude #7 (Huey's Blues); 3 Steps to Noh Mountain; The Mayor of Punkville; Interlude #8 (Holy Door); Anthem.

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William Parker & The Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra: Mayor of Punkville

Read "Mayor of Punkville" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Few musicians have managed to integrate life, art, spirituality, and philosophy the way William Parker has. Author of three volumes of poetry, exponent of art as an alternative to materialism and entrapment, spiritual lightning pole, and master bassist: what else is left? The Little Huey, back on CD after 1997's sensational Sunrise in the Tone World, ...

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William Parker Trio: Painter's Spring

Read "Painter's Spring" reviewed by Mark Corroto


For avant-garde musician William Parker, the outside can be very introspective. This prolific, giant bassist is quite the gentle soul, not an image his work with free jazz musicians such as Cecil Taylor, Peter Brotzmann, Charles Gayle, and David Ware would lead you to believe. With Painter’s Spring and his co-led recordings with Matthew Shipp and ...

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Article: Profile

Charles Gayle

Read "Charles Gayle" reviewed by Robert Spencer


Charles Gayle blew down with hurricane force--the pun is too obvious--out of Buffalo. He drifted in and out of the first great free jazz scenes of the Sixties, playing with Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, and other trailblazers. But he says now that his sound then was even more fiery and forceful than it is now, and ...

Album

Posium Pendasem

Label: Black Saint
Released: 1999


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