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Jeff Albert Dee Alexander Gordon Allen Marshall Allen Scott Amendola Fred Anderson David Arner Jean-Jacques Avenel Harrison Bankhead Lewis Barnes John Betsch Jacques Bisceglia Jeb Bishop David Boykin Rob Brown Daniel Carter Gerald Cleaver Martha Colby Leena Conquest Steve Dalachinsky Vincent Davis Ernest Dawkins Alex Dézé Whit Dickey Hamid Drake Michel Edelin Warren Ellis Marco Eneidi Malachi Favors Xu Fengxia Alvin Fielder Scott Fields Lori Freedman Satoko Fujii Eddie Gale Joe Giardullo Stéphane Gombert Luther Gray Gymkhana Rosie Hertlein Anna Homler Kidd Jordan Sylvain Kassap Julia Kent Peter Kowald Mike Ladd Marguerite Ladd Steve Lantner Denis Lavant Joëlle Léandre Peggy Lee Steve Lehman Thomas Lehn Lorna Lentini Daniel Levin George Lewis Ramon Lopez Napoleon Maddox Miya Masaoka Sabir Mateen Rob Mazurek Joe McPhee Franck Médioni Brian Melick Dom Minasi Nicole Mitchell Roscoe Mitchell John Moloney Jemeel Moondoc Gene Moore Thurston Moore Joe Morris David Murray Bill Nace Larry Ochs William Parker Jeff Parker Evan Parker Jessica Pavone Laurence Petit-Jouvet Alexandre Pierrepont Oscar Pierrepont David Prentice Matana Roberts Donald Robinson Rich Rosenthal Matthias Schubert Jaribu Shahid Matthew Shipp Michael Snow Steve Swell Mazz Swift Tani Tabbal Craig Taborn Natsuki Tamura Hanah Jon Taylor Chad Taylor Claude Tchamitchian Greg Ward David Wessel Corey Wilkes Shiau-Shu Yu William Parkerhttp://www.williamparker.net/Composer, band leader, double bass
WILLIAM PARKER William Parker is a master musician, improviser, and composer. He plays the bass, shakuhachi, double reeds, tuba, donso ngoni and gembri. He was born in 1952 in the Bronx, New York. He studied bass with Richard Davis, Art Davis, Milt Hinton, Wilber Ware, and Jimmy Garrison. He entered the music scene in 1971 playing at Studio We, Studio Rivbea, Hilly’s on The Bowery and The Baby Grand, playing with many musicians on the avant-garde school 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 and with traditionalists like Walter Bishop, Sr. and Maxine Sullivan. Early projects with dancer and choreographer Patricia Nicholson created a huge repertoire of composed music for multiple ensembles ranging from solo works to big band projects. Parker played in the Cecil Taylor unit from 1980 through 1991. He also developed a strong relationship with the European Improvised Music scene playing with musicians such as Peter Kowald, Peter Brotzmann, Han Bennink, Tony Oxley, Derek Bailey, Louis Sclavis, and Louis Moholo. He began recording in 1994 and leading his own bands on a regular basis founding two ensembles, In Order To Survive, and The Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra. In 2001, Parker released O’Neal’s Porch, which marked a turn toward a more universal sound working with drummer Hamid Drake. The Raining on the Moon Quintet followed, adding vocalist Leena Conquest and the Quartet from O’Neal’s Porch. Most notable among many recent projects is the Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield. He has taught at Bennington College, NYU, The New England Conservatory of Music, Cal Arts, New School University and Rotterdam Conservatory of Music. He has also taught music workshops throughout the world including Paris, Berlin and Tokyo and the Lower East Side. Parker is also a theorist and author of several books including the Sound Journal, Document Humanum, Music and the Shadow People and The Mayor of Punkville. Pictures
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