Один из странных аттракторов джазовой сцены, чрезвычайно деятельный человечище и гениальный бассист.
Биография:
Паркер родился в 1952 году. В 1970-71 учился игре на контрабасе. Начиная с 1971 года регулярно появляется на сцене в составах авангардных исполнителей Bill Dixon, Sunny Murray, Charles Tyler, Billy Higgins, Charles Brackeem, Alan Silva, Frank Wright, Frank Lowe, Rashid Ali, Donald Ayler, Don Cherry, Cecil Taylor, Jimmy Lyons, Milford Graves и традиционных Walter Bishop, Sr. и Maxine Sullivan. В 1974 вместе с хореографом Patricia Nicholson основывает Centering Music/Dance Ensemble. С 1980 регулярно выступает в составе Cecil Taylor Unit, благодаря этим выступлениям получает широкое признание. В девяностых Паркер организует несколько оркестров: бигбэнд The Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra, In Order To Survive, Other Dimensions In Music, The William Parker Quartet, а также сам является участником David S. Ware Quartet, ансамблей Matthew Shipp и проектов Peter Brotzmann. С 1990 занимается широкой организаторской деятельностью, под его началом проходит Vision Festival в Нью Йорке. Начиная с 1997 г. Под его началом действует лейбл AUM Fidelity. В музыке Паркер использует широкий инструментарий bass, shakuhachi, double reeds, tuba, donso ngoni и gembri. William Parker преподавал в Bennington College, NYU, The New England Conservatory of Music, Cal Arts, New School University and Rotterdam Conservatory of Music, а также организовывал мастер-классы по всему миру. Выпустил несколько книг: в марте 2007 «who owns music?», до этого три сборника стихов “Music Is,” “Document Humanum,” и “The Shadow People.”
Дискография:
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- Discography as a Leader
- 2008 Petit Oiseau (Quartet) AUM Fidelity
2008 Double Sunrise Over Neptune (Orchestra) Arts for Art, Inc./AUM Fidelity
2007 Corn Meal Dance (Raining On The Moon Sextet) AUM Fidelity
2007 The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield (live in Rome) Rai Trade/Radio 3
2007 Alphaville Suite (Double Quartet) RogueArt
2007 Summer Snow (Duet with Hamid Drake) AUM Fidelity
2007 First Communion + Piercing The Veil (Duet with Hamid Drake) AUM Fidelity
2006 Requiem (William Parker Bass Quartet + Charles Gayle) Splasc(H)
2006 Long Hidden: The Olmec Series AUM Fidelity
2006 For Percy Heath (The Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra) Victo
2005 Sound Unity (Quartet) AUM Fidelity
2005 Luc's Lantern (piano trio w/ Eri Yamamoto, Michael Thompson) The Blue Series
2004 Mass for the Healing of the World (The Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra) Black Saint
2003 Spontaneous (The Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra) Splasc(H)
2003 Scrapbook (Violin Trio w/ Billy Bang and Hamid Drake) The Blue Series
2002 Raincoat In The River (The Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra) Eremite
2002 Raining On The Moon (Quartet + Leena Conquest) The Blue Series
2002 O'Neal's Porch (Quartet) - 2nd edition AUM Fidelity
2002 Bob's Pink Cadillac (Clarinet Trio w/ Perry Robinson & Walter Perkins) Eremite
2001 Piercing The Veil (Duet with Hamid Drake) AUM Fidelity
2001 O'Neal's Porch (Quartet with Rob Brown, Lewis Barnes, Hamid Drake) Centering
2001 Song Cycle Boxholder
2000 Mayor Of Punkville (The Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra) AUM Fidelity
2000 Painter's Spring (Trio w/ Daniel Carter, Hamid Drake) The Blue Series
1999 Posium Pendasem (In Order To Survive) FMP
1998 The Peach Orchard (In Order To Survive) AUM Fidelity
1998 Lifting The Sanctions (solo bass) No More
1998 Through Acceptance Of The Mystery Peace (re-issue with extra material) ..Eremite
1997 Sunrise in the Tone World (The Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra) AUM Fidelity
1996 Compassion Seizes Bed-Stuy (In Order To Survive) Homestead
1995 In Order To Survive (In Order To Survive) ..Black Saint
1995 Testimony (solo bass) ..Zero In
1995 Flowers Grow In My Room (The Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra).. Centering
1981 Through Acceptance of the Mystery Peace
....... (music recorded from 1974-1979 w/ various accompaniment).. LP Centering
Discography as Co-Leader
- 2008 Charles Gayle / William Parker / Rashied Ali: Live at Crescendo ..Ayler Records
2006 Kidd Jordan / William Parker / Hamid Drake: Palm of Soul..AUM Fidelity
2005 Fred Anderson / William Parker / Hamid Drake: Blue Winter ..Eremite Records
2003 William Parker / Roy Campbell / Daniel Carter / Alan Silva: Fractured Dimensions FMP
2003 David Budbill / William Parker / Hamid Drake: Songs for a Suffering World ..Boxholder
2002 William Parker / Joe Morris / Hamid Drake: Eloping With The Sun Riti
2002 Jemeel Moondoc / William Parker (& Hamid Drake): New World Pygmies vol.2 Eremite
2001 The Music Ensemble (Roaratorio)
2000 Other Dimensions In Music: Time Is Of The Essence Is Beyond Time AUM Fidelity
2000 Jemeel Moondoc/William Parker: New World Pygmies ..Eremite
1999 David Budbill & William Parker: Zen Mountains Zen Streets ..Boxholder
1999 Alan Silva & William Parker: A Hero's Welcome: Pieces for Rare Occasions . Eremite
1998 Other Dimensions In Music: Now! (w/ Roy Campbell, Daniel Carter, Rashid Bakr) AUM Fidelity
1998 Joelle Leandre & William Parker: Contrabasses ..Leo
1997 Joe Morris/William Parker: Invisible Weave No More Records
1995 Derek Bailey / John Zorn / William Parker: Harras . Avant
1993 Charles Gayle / William Parker / Rashied Ali: Touchin' On Trane (w/ Charles Gayle & Rashied Ali).. FMP
1990 Other Dimensions In Music (w/ Roy Campbell, Daniel Carter, Rashid Bakr) ..Silkheart
Ссылки:
оффсайт
The William Parker Sessionography by Rick Lopez
AUM Fidelity
События:
Окт 23 William Parker Pôle Sud, Страсбург, Франция
Ноя 7 MUSIC UNLIMITED Alter Schlachthof, Wels, Австрия
Ноя 19 Joe McPhee Quartet ДОМ, Москва, Российская Федерация
?!) свободная импровизация/free jazz. Видимо это дуэт сыграл на сабже. Хотя вот упоминаемый в рецензии
