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Painter's Spring

By William Parker

Label: Thirsty Ear Recordings
Released: 2000

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

Read "Mayor of Punkville" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
July 1, 2000

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

by Mark Corroto
July 1, 2000

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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Charles Gayle

by Robert Spencer
June 11, 2000

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 ...

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Posium Pendasem

By William Parker

Label: Black Saint
Released: 1999

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GIVE

By Michael Fischer

Label: Extraplatte
Released: 1999
Track listing: Exploration NY 302, Exploration NY 303, Exploration NY 304

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William Parker's In Order to Survive: Posium Pendasem

by Derek Taylor
September 1, 1999

Wood and metal, strings and sweat. With these terrestrial materials and a seemingly bottomless store of imagination William Parker has crafted some of the most celestially expansive music in the history of jazz. At first glance such a contention may appear rash and circumspect. Take a listen to virtually any of the discs Parker has graced ...

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