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In Order To Survive (Import) (CD)

By: William Parker (Artist)
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DISC 1 for In Order To Survive (Import) (CD) Album By William Parker (Artist)
1   Testimony Of No Future
2   Anast In Crisis Mouth Full Of Fresh Cut Flowers
3   Testimony Of The Stir Pot
4   Square Sun, The
 
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Down Beat (7/96, p.54) - 4 Stars - Very Good - "...Thematic fragments emerge and are submerged in active free play....At the bottom, Parker is a master harmonic tactician: He chooses and places his notes perfectly to add the right tension or nuance..."
Option (5-6/96, p.122) - "...the sound of a band whos ideas flow like mercury, never settling too long in one place..."

Title Note

Personnel: William Parker (bass); Rob Brown (alto saxophone); Lewis Barnes (trumpet); Grachan Moncur III (trombone); Cooper-Moore (piano); Denis Charles (drums); Jackson Krall (percussion).

Engineers: Ben Medley, James McLean.

Recorded live at Roulette and The Knitting Factory, New York, New York on April 11 and June 28, 1993. Includes liner notes by William Parker.

Bassist William Parker has been a free-jazz stalwart for nearly three decades, appearing as a sideman on more than 100 albums with such luminaries of the avant-garde as Cecil Taylor, Don Cherry, Roscoe Mitchell, Lester Bowie, and David S. Ware. Although long overdue, this mid-'90s recording was his first as a leader. Parker assembled a talented group of musicians, with veterans Grachan Moncur III and Taylor sideman Denis Charles, first among equals, and the high level of group interplay his compositions demand results in a stirring and well-meshed debut.

In "Testimony of No Future," a rousing riposte to a guidance counselor who forecast a bleak fate for Parker and his peers, the band cuts loose with an extended yet controlled free-blowing session that harks back to such '60s landmarks as "Free Jazz" and "Ascension." "Anast in Crisis," a jarringly lovely melody with near fugal accompaniment, sounds like the soundtrack to a lost Truffaut masterpiece. "The Square Sun," a muted sketch, contains an intense dialogue between drummer Krall and Parker and features some astonishing, ethereal, upper-register arco work by the bassist. In all, a fine distillation of musical insights absorbed over the years from the masters.

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