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Mass for the Healing of the World
Label: Black Saint
Released: 2004
Track listing: Invocation; First Reading (Dawn Song); Hallelujah; Mysticism; Response (Muezzin's Call); Second Reading (Cathedral in the Mountains); Willows (Can You Give Me Back My Life); Cantos (Love God).
William Parker and the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra: Mass for the Healing of the World
by Rex Butters
Recorded live in Verona, Italy in 1998, Mass for the Healing of the World provides instant nostalgia in the quick change world of modern jazz. Built around William Parker's luminous and now defunct In Order To Survive band, the disc delivers an encore taste of Cooper-Moore's big handed piano stylings and Susie Ibarra's pandemic percussion with ...
William Parker & The Ohnedaruth String Quartet: A Flower for Feldman
by Derek Taylor
In the spring of 2001, bassist William Parker made a brief trip to England under the auspices of a holiday with his wife Patricia. A clandestine purpose behind the excursion was to meet at a studio location with a select cadre of London musicians. Turns out Parker has long been a fan of Morton Feldman's works ...
Eloping With The Sun
Label: Riti Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Sand Choir; Dawn Son; Hop-Kin; Step Dance; Dream.
Scrapbook
Label: Thirsty Ear Recordings
Released: 2003
Track listing: Scrapbook; Sunday Morning Church; Singing Spirits; Dust On A White Shirt; Urban; Holiday For
Flowers.
Antipop Vs. Matthew Shipp
Label: Thirsty Ear Recordings
Released: 2003
Track listing: Places I've Never Been; Staph; Slow Horn; A Knot In Your Bop; svp; Coda; Stream
Light; Monstro City; Real Is Surreal; Free Hop.
William Parker Violin Trio: Scrapbook
by AAJ Staff
More and more these days it seems that William Parker has been drawing from the wellspring of African American roots music. That may sound like a strange idea, considering that the bassist has long been floating on the fringes outside mainstream jazz, hardly an icon of accessibility. Some of his best work has been in settings ...
A Fireside Chat with William Parker
by AAJ Staff
William Parker is the best bassist of my time. Whether or not people coming to terms with hard bop having ended with the Alfred Lion Blue Note days learn to appreciate Parker is not a question of if, but when. Parker's uncanny ability to make saxophonists that play alongside him better is akin to Jimmy Garrison ...
William Parker/Joe Morris/Hamid Drake: Eloping With The Sun
by AAJ Staff
When jazz players harness African music, it's always interesting to see what forms the musicians preserve from each style. After all, the goal of such a hybrid is to preserve elements of both traditions in order to achieve a result that is more than the sum of its parts. Eloping With The Sun has ...
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