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William Parker
US free jazz double bassist, multi-instrumentalist, poet & composer
Since 1952
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William Parker (born January 10, 1952) is an American free jazz double bassist. Beginning in the 1980s, Parker played with Cecil Taylor for over a decade, and he has led the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra since 1981. The Village Voice named him "the most consistently brilliant free jazz bassist of all time" and DownBeat has called him "one of the most adventurous and prolific bandleaders in jazz".
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William Parker est un contrebassiste de free jazz américain, né le 10 janvier 1952 à New York.
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Discography
Albums
- 1980 Through Acceptance of the Mystery Peace
- 1983 Some Order, Long Understood
- 1987 Vermont Spring 1986
- 1994 Zo
- 1996 Cama de terra
- 1996 Testimony
- 1997 9
- 1997 Sad Life
- 1998 Authenticity
- 1998 Broken/Circle
- 1998 Lifting the Sanctions
- 1999 A Hero’s Welcome: Pieces for Rare Occasions
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- 1999 Cherry Box
- 1999 DNA
- 2001 2nd Set
- 2001 Piercing the Veil
- 2001 Song Cycle
- 2002 Eloping With the Sun
- 2003 Songs for a Suffering World
- 2004 Brooklyn Calling
- 2005 Evolving Silence, Vol. 1
- 2005 Luc’s Lantern
- 2006 Evolving Silence, Vol. 2
- 2006 Long Hidden: The Olmec Series
- 2006 Spirits Up Above
- 2006 The Dream
- 2006 Only
- 2006 Palm of Soul
- 2007 Corn Meal Dance
- 2007 Feels Like It
- 2007 The Last Dances
- 2007 Tamarindo
- 2008 On Reade Street
- 2008 Beyond Quantum
- 2009 In the Shade of Sun
- 2009 Temporary
- 2010 Vertical Invaders
- 2010 Prism
- 2011 Knives From Heaven
- 2011 One Sunday
- 2011 What Shall We Do (Without You)
- 2011 We
- 2011 Planetary Unknown
- 2011 Crumbling in the Shadows Is Fraulein Miller’s Stale Cake
- 2012 The Gowanus Session
- 2013 Vita brevis
- 2013 Serendipity
- 2014 Book of Sound
- 2014 Alternating Current
- 2015 To Roy
- 2015 Song for a New Decade
- 2015 For Those Who Are, Still
- 2015 Emanate
- 2015 Great Spirit
- 2016 New Normal
- 2016 Stan’s Hat Flapping in the Wind
- 2016 The Art of the Improv Trio, Volume 4
- 2016 A Long Way Home
- 2017 What I Saw This Morning
- 2017 Hope Cries for Justice
- 2017 Heptagon
- 2017 Emptying the Self
- 2018 Lake of Light: Compositions for AquaSonics
- 2018 OPTION AUDIO 005
- 2018 Flower in a Stained-Glass Window & The Blinking of the Ear
- 2019 Near Disaster
- 2019 Ineffable Joy
- 2020 Gowanus Sessions II
- 2020 Welcome Adventure! Vol. 1
- 2020 Tales From
- 2021 Migration of Silence Into and Out of the Tone World, Volumes 1–10
- 2021 Re-Union
- 2021 Mayan Space Station
- 2021 Painters Winter
- 2021 Music Frees Our Souls, Vol. 1
- 2021 El Templo
- 2021 Village Mothership
- 2021 No Joke!
- 2022 2 Blues for Cecil
- 2022 Sparks
