I am way behind on my album reviewing. I have a lot of good stuff from Posi-Tone to review. I hope to do that properly soon, but my summer schedule is tighter than my fall and spring schedules. Just right now I am listening to New World Pygmies, a 1999 duet album with Moondoc on alto sax and William Parker on double bass (Eremite Records). What a fine piece of jazz.
The music is brilliant, lyrical, and deeply passionate. It's avant garde, to be sure; however, it is more accessible music than you might expect from these two luminaries. You will want to listen to it where the background noise is minimal. You need to be able to hear ever inch of Parker's strings. The sound is superb, and that is essential on an album like this. The sheer sound of the instruments is almost a third party to the recording.
I was able to get New World Pygmies for a reasonable price from Amazon. What I don't understand is why it's not available in mp3 format. Since so much music is purchased that way now, any label not getting its music up online is dropping the ball. Moreover, this is the kind of thing you would have had a hard time finding when CD stores and jazz sections still roamed the Earth. Give this one a shot. Tell 'em I sent ya.
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