Author: Rick Lopez
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780996105316
Category : Double bassists
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Get Book Here
Book Description
This is a fully annotated (and generously illustrated) record of practically every time that elemental jazz double bassist-composer William Parker has ever played a gig or recording session, as a band member or leader, from 1972 clear through to June 2014. A vast microcosm of one profoundly engaged jazz musician which reveals an illuminated macrocosm of jazz itself.
Author: Cisco Bradley
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478012714
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Get Book Here
Book Description
Since ascending onto the world stage in the 1990s as one of the premier bassists and composers of his generation, William Parker has perpetually toured around the world and released over forty albums as a leader. He is one of the most influential jazz artists alive today. In Universal Tonality historian and critic Cisco Bradley tells the story of Parker’s life and music. Drawing on interviews with Parker and his collaborators, Bradley traces Parker’s ancestral roots in West Africa via the Carolinas to his childhood in the South Bronx, and illustrates his rise from the 1970s jazz lofts and extended work with pianist Cecil Taylor to the present day. He outlines how Parker’s early influences—Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Albert Ayler, and writers of the Black Arts Movement—grounded Parker’s aesthetic and musical practice in a commitment to community and the struggle for justice and freedom. Throughout, Bradley foregrounds Parker’s understanding of music, the role of the artist, and the relationship between art, politics, and social transformation. Intimate and capacious, Universal Tonality is the definitive work on Parker’s life and music.
Author: William Parker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: William Parker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: Rick Lopez
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578948713
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Get Book Here
Book Description
A discography/session-ography with interwoven biography of jazz icon Sam Rivers.
Author: Jeff Schwartz
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315311755
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Get Book Here
Book Description
Free Jazz: A Research and Information Guide offers carefully selected and annotated sources on free jazz, with comprehensive coverage of English-language academic books, journal articles, and dissertations, and selective coverage of trade books, popular periodicals, documentary films, scores, Masters’ theses, online texts, and materials in other languages. Free Jazz will be a major reference tool for students, faculty, librarians, artists, scholars, critics, and serious fans navigating this literature.
Author: William Parker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: William Parker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: Michael C. Heller
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520285409
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Get Book Here
Book Description
Cover -- LOFT JAZZ -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations and Table -- 1. Fragmented Memories and Activist Archives -- PART ONE: HISTORIES -- 2. Influences, Antecedents, Early Engagements -- 3. The Jazz Loft Era -- PART TWO: TRAJECTORIES -- 4. Freedom -- 5. Community -- 6. Space -- 7. Archive -- 8. Aftermaths and Legacies -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Author: William Parker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Get Book Here
Book Description
