S [side 2] Cecil Taylor Unit Nicaragua: No Pasaran Nica : 1984 CT, piano; Jimmy Lyons, alto sax; William Parker, bass; Rashid Bakr, drums; André Martinez, percussion; Brenda Bakr, vocals. Chilly Jay Chill: This is one of Cecil's rarest records, a live date in Willisau from 1983. It sits between the wonderful solo joint Garden and the classic big band Winged Serpent on the [...]
David S Ware, Cooper-Moore and William Parker - Planetary Unknown 2011 Release: 2011 | Track: 07 | Format: FLAC(tracks+log+scans), lossless | 467.45 Mb Genre: Jazz, Modern Jazz, Free Jazz
Marc Ribot and John Medeski Hey folks, Russia's Auktyon were supposed to be celebrating the release of their new record Top at Le Poisson Rouge on Feb 16 , but due to circumstances beyond their control, the band couldn't make it into the country. Fortunately, despite the last minute cancellation, LPR was still able to put together an impressive bill for Thursday night including frequent Aukyton collaborators John Medeski and Marc Ribot , along with William Parker and Andrew [...]
I love it when N8 submits his year-end lists. They are unpretentious, span a vast repertoire of genres, and typically include several albums I have yet to hear. N82s 2011 list fits the mold: in fact, I have yet to listen to any of the ones that made the list this year. Now this is not by lack of want or know - I'm familiar with many of the albums, just haven't gotten around to them. Dig in and enjoy! Intro by Fense * * [...]
I love it when N8 submits his year-end lists. They are unpretentious, span a vast repertoire of genres, and typically include several albums I have yet to hear. N82s 2011 list fits the mold: in fact, I have yet to listen to any of the ones that made the list this year. Now this is not by lack of want or know - I'm familiar with many of the albums, just haven't gotten around to them. Dig in and enjoy! Intro by Fense * * [...]
Prism" is the result of the collaboration between upright bassist William Parker and Italian guitarist Ninni Morgia. William Parker needs no introduction; a master player of his instrument, Derek Bailey described him as "one of the few ones left who play pure Free Jazz". Ninni Morgia, after proving his talent and versatility on his previous works (Control Unit with Daniel Carter, The Right
The collaboration shows a merger of many ideas in various forms of development, making for an album that's as fun as it is jittery and wide-ranging. Antipop Consortium and Matthew Shipp got together almost a decade ago for an album fetchingly titled Antipop vs Matthew Shipp. Since none of the artists stick to their respective genres (or are easily limited to such categorizations), it probably makes sense that they're back together again, this time blending jazz, hip hop, and general experimentalism for Knives from Heaven. As before, Antipop's represented only by Beans and High Priest (now listed as HPRizm); [...]
These four guys have known each other for years, yet this is the first album to feature all of them in the same room. Calling it a "doozy" is just a playful, feeble understatement. To call Planetary Unknown a "new" band is a little misleading. This album is the first made by David S. Ware together with Cooper-Moore, William Parker and Muhammad Ali all at one time, yes. But the shared history of collaborations and session support between these four jazz elders goes all the way back to the Nixon administration. In a loose sense, Planetary Unknown has always [...]
Bassist William Parker recorded "Uncle Joe's Spirit House" for his aunt and uncle's 65th wedding anniversary last summer. If anyone's ever given a finer present, I haven't heard of it. In the liner notes, Parker calls the title track a head-bobbing shuffle that shifts like a boxer in training. It's an apt description, but, really, [...]
The world lost a deep soul and musical master last month, with the passing of violinist and composer Billy Bang. Even though we could see this day coming, following the announcement at last year's Vision Festival that Bang was suffering from lung cancer, the news hit us hard and the subsequent funk has been difficult to shake. As we have in the past, we dealt with this feeling by diving in to the work. With an invaluable assist from George Scala , whose rich Billy Bang collection was [...]
An astounding hour of uninterrupted music from one of Cecil Taylor's very best small groups, from a particularly fertile period in his recording career. Traces of stride, Garner grace notes, and unrelenting rhythmic inventiveness emerge from Taylor's piano. Oxley provides the sizzle, Parker the bottom. All provide the beauty. For those looking to investigate what Greg Tate called Taylor's "theory of musical astrophysics," or get to know the disc that Richard Cook described as "refined, remonstrative, radical. Recommended."
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[Audio] STR Mixtape - You're A Good Man, Arthur Brown (Right Click + Save as to Download) Title Artist Starting Time Armageddon Days (Are Here Again) The The Alright Big Surr 05:38 Funeral Baby The Liminanas 08:24 An Appointment With The Master Bachdenkel 11:45 California Sunrise Dirty Gold 16:46 One More Sleepless Night (Demo) Xqses 20:37 Find Mr. Zeebedee Edison Lighthouse 24:43 Don't Threaten Me With Your Threats Nels Cline 27:39 The Orchid The Black Heart Procession [...]
NOBODY HEAR THE MUSIC THE SAME WAY (DEDICATED TO JOHN COLTRANE) FOR JOSIE, PART II Billy Bang's Survival Ensemble New York Collage Anima : 1978 BB, violin, bells, shaker, percussion; Bilal Abdur Rahman, tenor sax, soprano sax, bull horn, percussion; Henry Warner, alto sax, bells, shaker, percussion; William Parker, bass; Khuwana Fuller, conga; Rashid Bakr, drums. INTRODUCING.... We're proud to [...]
THE INSIDE SONG (bonus track not on CD; rec. Cormons, Italy, Oct. 2008) William Parker I Plan to Stay a Believer: The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield AUM Fidelity : 2010 WP, bass; Hamid Drake, drums; Dave Burrell, piano; Lewis Barnes, trumpet; Darryl Foster, tenor sax; Sabir Mateen, tenor sax, flute; Leena Conquest, vocals; Amiri Baraka: voice, poetry . Here, courtesy William Parker and AUM Fidelity , is an advance taste of a massive project [...]
CRY OUT Darius Jones Trio Man'ish Boy (A Raw and Beautiful Thing) AUM Fidelity : 2009 DJ, alto sax; Cooper-Moore, piano, Rakalam Bob Moses, drums. You know what you need? Another freakin top ten list, that's what. While we don't pretend toward comprehensiveness in our listening, we thought it might be of moderate interest to D:O's abnormally well-informed and good-looking readership to know of some discs [...]
[untitled 3] Hamid Drake & Mats Gustafsson For Don Cherry OkkaDisk : 1995 HD, percussion; MG, reeds. On the day Don Cherry died - 19 October 1995 - Drake and Gustafsson took the stage in Chicago and recorded a forty-minute set that is remarkable for its sensitivity and resonance. Though it is unclear whether the duo were aware of Cherry's passing before taking the stage, there is nevertheless a depth of feeling that it's all too [...]
William Parker is a free jazz bassist who has recorded some formidable sets over the years. Just the sort of thing that we love here at Doklands. However, for his 2002 album Raining on the Moon , he decided to take a more accessible approach. It's got that whole '60s Blue Note thing going for it: melancholic and bluesy. Here's the warm and achingly beautiful Old Tears , which has some colossal melodic interplay from horn players Rob Brown and Lewis Barnes. William Parker - Old Tears [...]
AQUARIAN SOUND YESTERDAYS David S. Ware Flight of I DIW : 1992 DSW, tenor sax; Matthew Shipp, piano; William Parker, bass; Marc Edwards, drums. The David S. Ware Quartet was the great working group of the 1990s. Given how much this band touches on the key tropes of D:O - forging links between New Thing and old traditions; melding beauty with brawn; making the band primary [...]
There's something to be said for the intersection of intentions that exists between consumer culture and the avant-garde. Both are focused on replacing the old with the new, perhaps reusing elements of form and function but always with the express intent of moving forward and creating something new rather than merely reusing the old. With that unlikely comparison made, when it comes to the avant-garde in music, there's a sense of adventure that rarely exists in the material consumer world. The new doesn't so much replace the old as it builds upon and adds to it. The [...]
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