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William Parker: Corn Meal Dance
by James Taylor
William Parker's Corn Meal Dance showcases the enigmatic figure's best attributes--not as bassist but, instead, as band leader and poet. The release finds Parker again working with his Raining On The Moon Quintet, first featured on Raining On The Moon (Thirsty Ear, 2002). An overall more pop and blues-oriented record than some of Parker's more eclectic ...
William Parker / Raining On The Moon: Corn Meal Dance
by Glenn Astarita
New York bassist/composer/poet and bandleader William Parker stands tall among the crème de la crème of great musical minds and instrumentalists. Corn Meal Dance, featuring his group Raining On The Moon, further instills a mystical framework that seems to yield notions of a sense of oneness, regardless of ensemble size or musical direction. These qualities ring ...
Who Owns Music?
by Kurt Gottschalk
Who Owns Music? William Parker Buddy's Knife 2007 Bassist and polymath William Parker's world is huge. Like Charles Mingus or Anthony Braxton, Parker's art is like an enormous quilt. He slowly, deliberately, adds squares to the fabric of a design that is probably bigger than could be completed in a ...
William Parker / Raining On The Moon: Corn Meal Dance
by Troy Collins
Bassist, composer, Vision Festival organizer and all-around Renaissance man William Parker is a man of many talents, from solo bass recitalist to big band leader. Raining On The Moon, his lyrical group, features the vocal talents of Leena Conquest, singing Parker's words like they were her own. Based on the same line-up as his long-standing quartet ...
William Parker: The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield - Live in Rome
by AAJ Italy Staff
Tralasciamo per una volta le sacrosante considerazioni sulla centralità della figura di William Parker nella scena attuale, e non solo, della musica improvvisata più creativa. Tralasciamo anche i meriti, culturali, sociali, quasi di testimonianza, di Tracce [per leggerne un profilo clicca qui], collana discografica fortemente voluta da Pino Saulo, diretta emanazione del programma di Radio3 “Battiti“. ...
William Parker - Hamid Drake: First Communion + Piercing The Veil / Summer Snow
by AAJ Italy Staff
Al momento della prima uscita di Piercing The Veil il “culto" di William Parker e Hamid Drake presso gli appassionati italiani di jazz non era ancora esploso in tutta la sua pienezza. Ancora impensabili erano le glorie della tre giorni romana di “New York Is Now" e dell'incredibile affetto con cui vengono ora seguite le loro ...
William Parker
by John Sharpe
William Parker's Raining On The Moon Bimhuis Amsterdam April 27, 2007 A beautiful Friday evening in Amsterdam drew to a close with William Parker's Raining On The Moon taking the stage in the fading light at the Bimhuis. Parker is the pre-eminent free jazz bassist on the New York downtown ...
William Parker and Hamid Drake: Summer Snow, volume 2
by Lyn Horton
The mere juxtaposition of the words summer and snow present a paradox infiltrated with energy. To move from the idea of one word to the other in itself requires a conscious shift in imagination. To invest meaning into the metaphor requires openness and belief in its potential dynamic. The duo of William Parker and Hamid Drake ...
William Parker & Hamid Drake: Summer Snow
by Troy Collins
Summer Snow is the second studio recording from the adroit rhythm team of bassist William Parker and percussionist Hamid Drake. Their first duo recording, the poly-ethnic exploration Piercing the Veil (AUM Fidelity, 2001), was recently reissued together with the previously unreleased live concert recording First Communion. This sequel finds the telepathic pair delving even deeper into ...
William Parker: The Other Side, Palm of Soul & Astrogeny Quartet
by Tom Greenland
Frode Gjerstad Trio The Other Side Ayler 2006 Kidd Jordan/Hamid Drake/William Parker Palm of Soul Aum Fidelity 2006 John Blum Astrogeny Quartet John Blum Astrogeny Quartet Eremite
