Person · US free jazz double bassist, multi-instrumentalist, poet & composer
William Parker
Albums
199
Members
110
Active
1952–present
Origin
United States
Biography
William Parker (born January 10, 1952) is an American free jazz double bassist, multi-instrumentalist, poet, and composer. 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".
Discography
Credits
Armageddon Flower
The Ancients
Heart Trio
WEBO
Music Frees Our Souls, Vol. 2
O Life, O Light, Vol. 2
Shine Hear, Vol. 1
Historic Music Past Tense Future
O Life, O Light, Vol. 1
Welcome Adventure! Vol. 2
Jesup Wagon
Mayan Space Station
Migration of Silence Into and Out of the Tone World, Volumes 1–10
Music Frees Our Souls, Vol. 1
Music From Two Continents: Live at Jazz Jamboree ‘84
Painters Winter
The Bond
Village Mothership
A Tribute to Alvin Fielder (Live at Vision Festival XXIV)
Goes Without Saying, but It’s Got to Be Said
Gowanus Sessions II
Live at Ibeam
Welcome Adventure! Vol. 1
Lake of Light: Compositions for AquaSonics
Seraphic Light [Live at Tufts University]
The Balance (Vision Festival XV +)
Bass Duo
This Is Beautiful Because We Are Beautiful People
Vol. 1: Erie Live!
Cleaning the Mirror
Live at La Resistenza
Live at NHKM
Live in Germany
The Other Side
To Roy
Divine Travels
Encounters
Melodic Art-Tet
The Gowanus Session
The Loweski
Commitment Live in Germany, 1983
I Plan to Stay a Believer: The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield
Onecept
CT: The Dance Project
On Reade Street
Petit oiseau
Corn Meal Dance
Echoes
Tamarindo
Palm of Soul
The Dream
Live in the World
Luc’s Lantern
Sound Unity
Fire Into Music
Harmony and Abyss
High Water
The Bishop’s Move
Antipop Consortium vs. Matthew Shipp
Dubtometry