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Luc
Label: Thirsty Ear Recordings
Released: 2005
Track listing: Adena; Song for Tyler; Mourning Sunset; Evening Star Song; Luc;s Lantern; Jaki; Bud in Alphaville;
Charcoal Flower; Phoenix; Candlesticks on the Lake
Sound Unity
Label: AUM Fidelity
Released: 2005
Track listing: Hawaii; Wood Flute Song; Poem for June Jordan; Sound Unity; Harlem; Groove.
Marco Eneidi: Still Here
by Taran Singh
Alto saxophonist Marco Eneidi is one of contemporary creative music's unsung heroes. He studied with Jimmy Lyons and Sonny Simmons and has played and recorded with illustrious musicians including Bill Dixon, Cecil Taylor, William Parker and Glenn Spearman.Each of his albums is a special treat. Despite a significant discography ranging from trio to large ...
William Parker: Sound Unity
by Michael McCaw
Years of gigs in various formations with the same musicians can create relationships where you learn your partners' tendencies and how to push them in ways that others simply cannot. And when these musicians come together to record, the results can often mark an apex in their respective recording careers. Sound Unity, taped during 2004 live ...
William Parker Quartet: Sound Unity
by Rex Butters
From the musicians responsible for the classic O'Neal's Porch session (Centering Music, 2001; AUM Fidelity, 2002) comes Sound Unity, the William Parker Quartet recorded live in Canada in 2004. Bassist William Parker, drummer Hamid Drake, alto saxophonist Rob Brown, and trumpeter Lewis Barnes swing hard and bluesy, haunted and lyrical. These four musicians create palpable magic ...
William Parker: Sound Unity & Two Masters & Mass for the Healing of the World
by Jeff Stockton
William Parker Quartet Sound Unity AUM Fidelity 2005 Recorded live in Montreal and Vancouver during the William Parker Quartet's tour in the summer of 2004, Sound Unity doesn't pack the same startling punch as the the group's first release, 2001's O'Neal's Porch (AUM Fidelity), but this pianoless quartet, with its ...
William Parker: Luc's Lantern
by Jeff Stockton
Where's Hamid Drake, you might ask. And who is pianist Eri Yamamoto? These questions quickly become secondary as you discover that the latest William Parker release in Thirsty Ear's Blue Series is as musically interesting, listenable, and rewarding as his previous efforts for the label: Painter's Spring (2000), Raining on the Moon (2002), and Scrapbook (2003). ...
William Parker: Luc
by Rex Butters
William Parker's latest trio disc for Thirsty Ear features pianist Eri Yamamato, a classical prodigy who moved to New York, bagged the powdered wigs, and threw herself into jazz head first at the New School. Yamamoto joins the archbassist and drummer Michael Thompson for what must be the most overtly jazz-oriented album in the TE catalogue. ...
William Parker on Freedom
by James Taylor
This month, bassist William Parker celebrates the release of Luc's Lantern, his most recent recording for acclaimed Thirsty Ear Records. With pianist Matthew Shipp, as a part of David S. Ware's prolific quartet, with Cecil Taylor, Fred Anderson and others, the enigmatic performer has recorded over thirty albums, and almost that many as a leader himself. ...
