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Article: Live Review

Hamid Drake and Bindu: Reggaeology at the London Jazz Festival

Read "Hamid Drake and Bindu: Reggaeology at the London Jazz Festival" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe

Hamid Drake and Bindu Baltic Restaurant/London Jazz Festival London November 14, 2010 It's been a long time since the avant-garde has conjured thoughts of dance. You would have to go all the way back to the early days of the Swing era. But that's what came to mind ...

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Article: Album Review

TriEZ: TriEZ

Read "TriEZ" reviewed by Antonio Álvarez Barthe

by Antonio Álvarez Barthe

Primeras figuras del jazz de vanguardia europeo, con largos y brillantes currículos tanto como líderes como al servicio de diferentes maestros de la música improvisada en varios continentes, Agustí Fernández, Baldo Martínez y Ramón López debutaron como trío bajo el explícito nombre de TriEZ en el Festival Jazzycolors de París en noviembre de 2006. La excepcional ...

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News: Radio

The Jazz Session #215: William Parker

The Jazz Session #215: William Parker

Bassist William Parker is one of the most prolific players on the jazz scene today. His two most recent albums are I Plan To Stay A Believer: The Inside Songs Of Curtis Mayfield (Aum Fidelity, 2010) and Uncle Joes Spirit House (Aum Fidelity, 2010). In this interview, Parker talks about the origin of both projects; what ...

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Article: Album Review

David S. Ware: Onecept

Read "Onecept" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe

Never one to be daunted, David S. Ware's first release after his kidney transplant was a solo live recording of three improvisations on three different instruments. Saturnian (Solo Saxophones, Volume One) (AUM Fidelity, 2010) garnered a strongly positive critical response. Now he has gone one stage further, following up with an even better studio date backed ...

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Article: Album Review

William Parker Organ Quartet: Uncle Joe's Spirit House

Read "Uncle Joe's Spirit House" reviewed by Lyn Horton

by Lyn Horton

Defining his direction is one recognizable talent that composer/musician William Parker constantly demonstrates, though not in so many words; but within his art, the direction is clear as day. The musicians he chooses to fulfill his intentions are also exactly whom he needs, for he understands how they operate to blend in joyous confluence that is ...

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Article: Film Review

Mark Dresser: Guts

Read "Mark Dresser: Guts" reviewed by Robert Bush

by Robert Bush

Mark DresserGutsKadima Collective Recordings2010 He doesn't receive anywhere near the publicity given to his friend, and fellow bassist, William Parker, but make no mistake about it: Mark Dresser is a giant in the free jazz / new music continuum and has been so for years. Dresser has been ...

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Article: Album Review

William Parker: I Plan To Stay A Believer

Read "I Plan To Stay A Believer" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe

From the first few bars of the title cut opening “I Plan To Stay A Believer," the riffing horns, infectiously funky beat and expressive soulful singing of Leena Conquest quickly establishes` this as one of bassist/composer William Parker's most accessible projects. This set has been a long time coming. The idea of a tribute to legendary ...

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Article: Album Review

William Parker Organ Quartet: Uncle Joe's Spirit House

Read "Uncle Joe's Spirit House" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins

Renowned in avant-garde jazz circles for his steadfast leadership, bassist, composer and bandleader William Parker's all-encompassing artistry has long been influenced by a variety of sources, both abstract and concrete. Though mysticism and spirituality play a hand in his expansive aesthetic, so do earthly concerns like social justice and family. Uncle Joe's Spirit House, the debut ...

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Article: Profile

David S. Ware: Planetary Musician

Read "David S. Ware: Planetary Musician" reviewed by Lyn Horton

by Lyn Horton

On Sunday, June 27th, 2010, about a half-hour after its scheduled 9:30 pm appearance on the Abrons Art Center main performance stage in New York City, the David S. Ware Trio was setting up. The audience for this night of Vision Festival XV was its usual wandering and low-hum conversational self. William Parker stood by his ...

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Article: Album Review

William Parker: I Plan To Stay A Believer

Read "I Plan To Stay A Believer" reviewed by Nic Jones

by Nic Jones

On the surface of it there might not seem to be much continuity between the music of William Parker's and Curtis Mayfield, but scratch away at it and the overlap is revealed. On a social level both men were/are activists, conscious of rights human as well as merely social and, on the basis of the evidence ...


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