William Parker News

French double bass player Joelle Leandre needs no introduction. She has gained a legendary status as one of the best free improvisors of recent decades, always ready for new challenges and opportunities to perfect her art.

Bassist and composer William Parker has been a driving force in New York's modern jazz community since the early '70s. Nearly 40 years onward, Parker is an organizer as well as a vital link to the under-documented history of loft jazz and post-Coltrane New York improvisational music, not to mention a collaborator with a wide range of American and ...

Sep. 4--Each edition of the Chicago Jazz Festival carries its own themes and obsessions, and this year it's the sound of surprise .

To celebrate five years of music, discovery and community, Harvest Records is bringing 16 bands to town, for a three-night, three-venue extravaganza dubbed Transfigurations.

For the ninth time since 2001, the whole month of June in Montreal was the affair of the Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival.

The New York-based trio - bassist William Parker, saxophonist Charles Gayle, and drummer Rashied Ali - will be making its first New England appearance.

Jason Kao Hwang's Spontaneous River / Trio X / Patricia Nicholson Dance / William Parker Quartet 14th Annual Vision Festival Angel Orensanz Foundation for the Arts New York City June 15, 2009 For the final night of the Vision Festival the setting switched to the Angel Orensanz Foundation just a few blocks from the Abrons Arts Center in Manhattan's ...

With David S. Ware on the DL for a little while while he recovers from successful kidney transplant surgery, this excellent live album serves as a reminder of what a protean force he is in the world of jazz.

The large, multicolored image hanging high above the Abrons Arts Center stage to commemorate the 14th annual Vision Festival looked like a fish when viewed from the right.

There is no place for fear or doubt in pianist Craig Taborn's playing-such states are banished from a mind that seeks to explore the musical possibilities of each moment with maximum freedom.

Alto saxophonist and composer Rob Brown moved the New York City in the mid 1980's and slowly began developing an impressive reputation in progressive jazz circles, playing with the likes of Cecil Taylor, Butch Morris and a long stretch in William Parker's extraordinary quartet.

Eleven years have passed since the estimable duo of Joelle Leandre and William Parker recorded Contrabasses for this U.K.-based record label.

Master of semi-exotic Eastern double-reed instruments, Bill Cole has spent most of his professional life as an academic.

In the early '80s, saxophonist Rob Brown and pianist Matthew Shipp played as a duo, eventually forming a quartet with William Parker on bass and Whit Dickey on drums and releasing Points on Silkheart in 1990.

It's time once again to let you know what's been going on over at StLJN's sibling site Heliocentric Worlds , which features a different online music video every day for your listening and viewing pleasure.

The founding father of the European Free Jazz movement, German saxophonist Peter Brotzmann has made important contributions with Last Exit , Die Like a Dog and his Chicago- and Scandinavian-based Tentet with Ken Vandermark.

Violinist Billy Bang and bassist William Parker will be performing together in concert at The Rubin Museum in NYC on May 8th, 2009 at 7:00PM as part of the 2009 Winter/Spring Harlem in the Himalayas Series.