One more jazz collector’s
windfall fell my way last week. William
Parker has released a series of live recordings. Parker is a bass player and maybe the best
avant garde composer working today. I
have featured a lot of his music on my Live365 station and I have loved him
dearly for a long time. The collection
is available in a box as Wood Flute Songs. It includes six concerts on eight CDs. Amazon was sold out, but fortunately for me
the individual discs are available from eMusic.
William Parker is that rare
example of the whole package. He is a consummate
low string finger man, a marvelous composer, and a brilliant band leader. He seems to be able attract splendid
musicians and thump every last bit of genius out of them. I have never been lucky enough to see him
live. I am lucky enough to have these
recordings on my iPod. While I fix a
batch of Texas red chili in my kitchen, Parker’s songs find their way into the
beef. What a wonderful world!
I am playing ‘Late Man of This
Planet’ from Friday Afternoon, with
the Raining on the Moon group, recorded at Montreal in 2012. Also ‘Grove #7’ from Live at Yoshi’s. That one
was recorded in Oakland in 2006. Both
albums are very well produced.
I’ll be putting more of this up
as I listen to it. Meanwhile, get this
stuff. It is what jazz is.
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