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
Through Acceptance of the Mystery Peace
Some Order, Long Understood
Vermont Spring 1986
LOOKING (Berlin Version) CORONA
Touchin’ on Trane
Fragments of Music, Life and Death of Albert Ayler
Kingdom Come
Sacred Scrape
Zo
Harras
In Order to Survive
Cama de terra
Seeing New York From the Ear
Testimony
9
Invisible Weave
Live
Sad Life
Authenticity
Broken/Circle
Contrabasses
Lifting the Sanctions
The Peach Orchard
A Hero’s Welcome: Pieces for Rare Occasions
Alain Kirili Musée Grenoble
Cherry Box
DNA
New World Pygmies
Zen Mountains Zen Streets
2 Days in April
Live at Radio Valencia
2nd Set
New World Pygmies, Vol. 2
Piercing the Veil
Song Cycle
Eloping With the Sun
Emancipation Suite #1
Nothung
Raincoat In The River Vol.1 / ICA Concert
Fractured Dimensions
Never Too Late But Always Too Early
Songs for a Suffering World
The All-Star Game
The Cooler Suite
The Victoriaville Tape
After You Gone
Brooklyn Calling
Deep Music
Fire Into Music
Blue Winter
Evolving Silence, Vol. 1
Luc’s Lantern
Two Masters (live at the Prism)
Evolving Silence, Vol. 2
Long Hidden: The Olmec Series
Only
Palm of Soul
Spirits Up Above
The Dream
Vision Festival X, NYC
