William Parker Archives

Dopolarians: Garden Party (Mahakala)

Early in 2019, the avant-garde jazz world suffered a crate-sized blow when drummer Alvin Fielder passed away at 83. A Sun Ra Arkestra member in … Read More “Dopolarians: Garden Party (Mahakala)”

This is a live recording of a concert that woodwind/brass virtuoso Daniel Carter, bassist William Parker, and pianist Matthew Shipp gave at Tufts University in … Read More “Daniel Carter/William Parker/Matthew Shipp: Seraphic Light (AUM Fidelity)”

It’s hard to pick a favorite William Parker outfit. Everything he touches is magic, from his giant orchestras to his solo outings. But his quartets … Read More “William Parker Quartets: Meditation/Resurrection (AUM Fidelity)”

Since 1994, bassist-composer William Parker has been writing Stan’s Hat Flapping in the Wind, an original musical about a New Mexico couple chosen to save … Read More “William Parker Ft. Lisa Sokolov and Cooper-Moore: Stan’s Hat Flapping in the Wind”

When bassist William Parker’s group Raining on the Moon released its 2007 album Corn Meal Dance, the sextet left another album’s worth of material on … Read More “William Parker/Raining on the Moon: Great Spirit”

Bassist, composer and bandleader William Parker is a bottomless well of creativity, and his endless run of superb recordings continues with For Those Who Are, … Read More “William Parker: For Those Who Are, Still”

What a wry name. These aren’t wood flute songs. Instead, this eight-CD live box is a magnificent document that captures one of jazz’s greatest, most … Read More “William Parker: Wood Flute Songs: Anthology/Live 2006-2012”

Remarkably, despite their heftily prolific discographies and the fact that their list of collaborators comprises a Venn diagram with little non-overlapping space, Altitude marks the … Read More “Joe Morris/William Parker/Gerald Cleaver : Altitude”

These four musicians have all known each other for years, but never performed as a unit until they ventured into the studio last November. Saxophonist … Read More “David S. Ware/Cooper-More/William Parker/Muhmmad Ali: Planetary Unknown”

On a three-week European tour in the fall of 2008, tenor sax-man Joe McPhee, drummer Warren Smith, bassist William Parker and trumpeter Roy Campbell traveled … Read More “Joe McPhee/Roy Campbell/William Parker/Warren Smith: Tribute to Albert Ayler: Live at the Dynamo”