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William Parker: Luc's Lantern

Read "Luc's Lantern" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Bassist William Parker has been a key figure in different piano trios in the past, including Cecil Taylor's Feel Trio (Looking: Berlin Version, FMP, 1990 and Celebrated Blazons, FMP, 1994), his longtime partner Matthew Shipp's Trio (The Multiplication Table, Hatology, 1998) and most recently in Dave Burrell's Full Blown Trio (High Two, 2004). But none of ...

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William Parker: Luc's Lantern

Read "Luc's Lantern" reviewed by John Kelman


Bassist William Parker is one of those artists you can count on to deliver. Whether it's in the more powerful context of his Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra or the smaller but no more restricted confines of the Eric Dolphy-informed O'Neal's Porch quartet, Parker has, since emerging from the aegis of pianist Cecil Taylor in the ...

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William Parker: Luc's Lantern

Read "Luc's Lantern" reviewed by Mark Corroto


You might not get bassist William Parker to agree, but his music has always focused on assemblage and order. You can hear it in the large congregations of his Little Huey Creative Music Ensemble or his work with Cecil Taylor and Peter Brötzmann. His internal logic always is expressed by his sheer will and determination to ...

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Article: Interview

William Parker: Everything Is Valid

Read "William Parker: Everything Is Valid" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


William Parker is, no doubt, the most remarkable bassist in the post-Mingus era. A great musician who is gifted with an uncanny ability to make any artist near him--musician, dancer, painter or poet--perform better. Parker presents a musical vision that is full with compassion and commitment to his community at large. William Parker began ...

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A Flower for Feldman

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2004

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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).

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William Parker and the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra: Mass for the Healing of the World

Read "Mass for the Healing of the World" reviewed 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 ...

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William Parker & The Ohnedaruth String Quartet: A Flower for Feldman

Read "A Flower for Feldman" reviewed 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 ...

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Eloping With The Sun

Label: Riti Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Sand Choir; Dawn Son; Hop-Kin; Step Dance; Dream.


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