For Those Who Are, Still [3CD]

Avant Jazz / Free Improvisation / Avant-Garde
premiera polska: 2021-10-18
kontynent: Ameryka Północna
kraj: USA
opakowanie: digipackowe etui
opis:
Editor's info:
Essential music for those who are, still here. Meaning you and I. More extensive listening -&- details are on each component album's page. It was decided to post them up here as individual albums as well, principally to make this grand and varied collection of work easier to parse!

William Parker is a premier jazz composer, bassist/multi-instrumentalist and bandleader. His contributions to music over the last four+ decades are un-quantifiable. Since beginning to regularly record and release his work as a leader/composer in the mid-90s, he has produced numerous masterworks of an eternal nature. This box set is one of them.

It is comprised of four distinct long-form works: Parker’s first score written -&- performed by symphony orchestra, a commissioned piece for standing new music ensemble, a chamber-jazz song series for voice / sax / piano / bass, a long-form / multi-sectional composition created specifically for a particularly global assemblage in Universal Tonality mode. The four works are linked by a focus on and greater adherence to William Parker’s long-form composition, the depth and breadth of the resultant performances thereof is astonishing.

Extensive art / liner notes / lyrics / full credits within
24pg. PDF booklet, included with Digital Album.

"CHOC (highest recommendation)" –Jazz Magazine (FR)

"Rewind: Top 50 Releases of 2015" –The Wire

"Music of gravitas from a modern day icon." –Jazzwise

"Bassist, composer and bandleader William Parker is a bottomless well of creativity, and his endless run of superb recordings continues with For Those Who Are, Still" –JazzTimes

"A release of combustive and sacred energy, in which profoundly masterful singers play a central role, including the rooted singing and spoken word of gorgeous contralto Leena Conquest on Disc 1, deeply organic incantations of Senegalese griot Mola Sylla and classically-trained Indian singer Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay on Disc 2, and eight fierce principal singers of the NFM Choir on Disc 3. Parker and his ensembles walk into the face of Civil Rights horror and ride currents of the cosmic-as-ever-present on long-form works harnessing order into chaos and unleashing chaos into order. This is a must-have set for all Parker fans and anyone who wants to expand their ears, it is movingly outside the box." –The New York City Jazz Record
The New York bassist remains in demand and near constant rotation as a sideman and group leader, but For Those Who Are, Still was a weighty testament to his skill in larger scale and longform compositions. With a palette spanning Indian vocalists, Senegalese griots, orchestras and choirs, the music embodied Parker’s idea and ideal of universal tonality. Andy Hamilton said: “As For Those Who Are, Still reminds us, William Parker eagerly confronts the most challenging artistic problems.”
The Wire Best Albums of 2015
Deluxe box set is published in a limited first edition of 1500 copies. Each of the CD sleeves (and the box cover) feature commissioned paintings by gifted young artist Douglas Arnold. The accompanying 24pg. booklet contains extensive notes by Philip Clark (The Wire, et al.), William Parker's lyrics, and further key visual artwork.

muzycy:
William Parker (bass, doson'ngoni)
Hamid Drake (drums)
Cooper-Moore (piano)
Rob Brown (alto sax)
Charles Gayle (tenor & soprano sax)
Mike Reed (drums)
Leena Conquest (voice)
Mola Sylla (voice)
Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay (voice)
Klaas Hekman (bass sax)
NFM Symphony Orchestra + Choir (Wroclaw, Poland)
Kitchen House Blend band

utwory:
1. For Fannie Lou Hamer 27:59
2. Vermeer 07:09
3. Awash in the Midst of An Angel's Tears 04:18
4. Essence 02:46
5. Flower Song (Take 2) 06:48
6. Just Feel 00:57
7. Feet as Roses 03:36
8. Gongs for Deaf Dreams 03:19
9. Sweet Breeze 04:56
10. Flower Song (Take 1) 06:59
11. Villages, Greetings and Prayer 15:36
12. Souls Have Fallen Like Rain 14:37
13. The Giraffe Dances 19:45
14. Tour of The Flying Poem 05:52
15. Children Drawing Water From The Well 06:14
16. Where Do You Send The Poem 12:00
17. A Magical Figure Dances Barefoot in the Mud 04:50
18. Light Shimmering Across a Field of Ice 02:28
19. Trees With Wings 05:10
20. Rise Up In Sound 07:56
21. Humble Serious 07:01
22. Tea Leaves of Triple Sadness 04:48
23. Ritual 03:52
24. Winter 05:48
25. My Cup 03:42
26. Encore 04:16
27. Escapade For Sonny (dedicated to Sonny Rollins) 25:24

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