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Charles Mingus said jazz was a word invented to separate musicians from their money. Music for a Free World brings us together, drawing listeners to the healing power of smooth free jazz. Each week, surprise guests bring their own sides to spin and their instruments of choice to spontaneously jam.

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Favoriting February 15, 2025: William Parker is a master musician–improvisor–composer–bandleader–griot–shaman–poet–community leader.
https://williamparker.bandcamp.com/music

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Artist Track Album Label Comments Approx. start time
William Parker Septet  O'Neal's Porch   Favoriting Light Cottage Draped in a Curtain of Blues  AUM Fideltity  William Parker bass Hamid Drake drums Rob Brown alto sax Lewis Barnes trumpet Billy Bang violin Bobby Bradford cornet James Spaulding alto sax  0:00:00 (MP3 | Pop-up)
William Parker Septet  Daughter's Joy   Favoriting Light Cottage Draped in a Curtain of Blues  AUM Fideltity  William Parker bass Hamid Drake drums Rob Brown alto sax Lewis Barnes trumpet Billy Bang violin Bobby Bradford cornet James Spaulding alto sax  0:16:11 (MP3 | Pop-up)
William Parker  Shifting Resonance   Favoriting Lake of Light : Compositions for AquaSonics  Gotta Let It Out  https://gottaletitout.bandcamp.com/album/lake-of-light-compositions-for-aquasonics  0:32:02 (MP3 | Pop-up)
William Parker, David S. Ware and Dennis Charles with Patricia Nicholson  Facing the Sun, One is Never the Same   Favoriting Centering. Unreleased Early Recordings 1976-1987  No Business  https://nobusinessrecords.bandcamp.com/album/centering-unreleased-early-recordings-1976-1987  0:58:17 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Lester Bowie, Philip Wilson, William Parker  The Great Pretender   Favoriting The Great Pretender  Jazzwerkstatt  tune by William Parker called 1959 but on the record they called it "Cool"  1:30:49 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Wayne Horvitz, Butch Morris, William Parker  Some Order, Long Understood   Favoriting Some Order, Long Understood    https://waynehorvitz.bandcamp.com/track/some-order-long-understood  1:38:35 (MP3 | Pop-up)
William Parker - Patricia Nicholson  No Joke   Favoriting No Joke  ESP-Disk  https://williamparker-patricianicholson.bandcamp.com/album/no-joke  2:03:59 (MP3 | Pop-up)
William Parker  Bouquet for Borah (feat. Andrea Wolper)   Favoriting Voices Fall From The Sky  AUM Fidelity/Centering Records  https://williamparker.bandcamp.com/album/voices-fall-from-the-sky  2:44:08 (MP3 | Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 2:01pm
duke:

Wow William Parker.
Hi Dave and William
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tom tom the pipers son:

hello dave, william parker and folx....
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Dave Sewelson:

↳ duke @2:01
hey duke....
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Dave Sewelson:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @2:02
welcome tttps.....
  2:06pm
DavidJ:

Hi Dave, William and all
  2:08pm
Dean:

So this is not Rob Brown! I should know better. I have a copy of this set.
Avatar 2:14pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ DavidJ @2:06
Hey DavidJ....
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Dave Sewelson:

↳ Dean @2:08
William Parker bass
Hamid Drake drums
Rob Brown alto sax
Lewis Barnes trumpet
Billy Bang violin
Bobby Bradford cornet
James Spaulding alto sax
  2:17pm
Dean:

Oh, right. I misread Discogs credits. Brown is the mainstay. Whew.
  2:19pm
Dean:

But the title of the album is:

Light Cottage Draped In A Curtain Of Blues
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 2:21pm
tom tom the pipers son:

question for william....among bassists, who does he feel he is directly descended from, who does he feel closest to...same question, as bandleader
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Dave Sewelson:

↳ Dean @2:19
Draped it is Dean...
  2:25pm
william:

Wilbur Ware
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ william @2:25
thank you, was also wondering if you knows the artwork of martin puryear.... a sculptor
  2:28pm
Gary Graff:

Thanks so much.
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @2:27
sorry... know....
  2:34pm
Gary Graff:

Do you, William, consider yourself influenced by Coltrane? Or what you say were your original influences. Thanks so much for making spirituality a part of your music. Cheers and blessings to you.
  2:36pm
william:

I definitely confirmed and influenced by trane I was playing with Jemeel Moondoc and trne wearing a white and gold robe tapped me on the shoulder and smiled he didi have any teeth.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 2:37pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Song: "Shifting Resonance" by "William Parker"
awesome ...reminding me on pauline oliveros
  2:37pm
Dean:

Brings to mind Michel Redolfi's Sonic Waters/Underwaters records.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 2:42pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ william @2:36
walking on sixth ave by village vanguard, cab pulls up, door opens, pharoah sanders with magenta metalflake sax case flashes me a smile... the man was radiant...
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WR:

↳ Song: "Shifting Resonance" by "William Parker"
Very interesting, using the instrument made by Kral but Kral (according to the bandcamp page) not part of the ensemble. Sound is excellent and sounds are excellent.
  2:46pm
Gary Graff:

↳ william @2:36
I'm new to deeply diving in free jazz. It seems the perfect soundtrack to these times.Thanks again for all you do and all you've done.
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chresti:

↳ Song: "Shifting Resonance" by "William Parker"
Hi free world and sound!
  2:48pm
Dean:

Album has a fun etymology:

classical Latin album blank tablet or noticeboard, official list or register, in post-classical Latin also (in album amicorum album of friends) specifically in sense 1a (1546 or earlier; frequently as a work title, especially in Dutch and German sources), use as noun of neuter singular of albus (adjective) white < the same Italic base as Umbrian alfu, Sabine alpum < the same Indo-European base as ancient Greek ἀλϕός alphos n., Old High German albiz swan.
  2:50pm
Dean:

I don't read "album" as a medium. I read it as a species of work.
  2:55pm
Dean:

Speaking of arriving late, Cecil Taylor had trouble at the border getting to the Victoriaville festival a number of years ago. Marylin Crispell was slated to open for him, so Paul Plimley and John Oswald kindly opened for her, and then she played. By then Taylor had made it to town. An amazing evening, that gig.
  2:58pm
Dave in Vermont on the phone:

My first date with my wife was David Budbill and William Parker in Burlington.
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WR:

↳ WR @2:45
my typo, two "L's" in Jackson Krall.
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Song: "Facing the Sun, One is Never the Same" by "Willia...
loving this, gayle's playing...always...
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Dave Sewelson:

↳ Gary Graff @2:46
thanks for dropping by Gary...
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Dave Sewelson:

↳ chresti @2:46
hey chresti...
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Dave Sewelson:

↳ Dave in Vermont on the phone @2:58
congrats Dave....
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Dave Sewelson:

↳ WR @3:00
the l with it WR...
  3:08pm
Dean:

Okay, I could not resist. Acquired a copy of this 6CD "album"!
  3:08pm
Dean:

"LAST COPIES LEFT" reads bandcamp.
  3:08pm
Gary Graff:

First time. Found your show from a fb post. Listening in Vermont. Thanks, Dave.
  3:28pm
Dean:

I have to depart, alas, for a music lesson. Recorder. Trust me, my playing sounds like I'm playing whatever I want, but that's not in fact the case. We try to stick to Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, then cheat once or twice with Henry Cowell.

Thanks for hosting the marvelous William Parker!
Avatar 3:33pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ Dean @3:28
go for Baroque Dean...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:35pm
doctorjazz:

Hi Dave, William!
Haven't pulled this album out in quite a while. (But this isn't The Great Pretender, that was a version of The old Platters hit).
Avatar 3:36pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ doctorjazz @3:35
correct doc...
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doctorjazz:

↳ doctorjazz @3:35
I have the Bowie album (in my lap), must be a different album, no track called "Cool", and different personnel.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:43pm
coelacanth∅:

Greetings Dave, William Parker
and Free worldlings
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Dave Sewelson:

↳ doctorjazz @3:42
Lester Bowie, Philip Wilson, William Parker trio recording The great pretender….. tune by William Parker called 1959 but on the record they called it "Cool"
youtu.be...
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Dave Sewelson:

↳ coelacanth∅ @3:43
hey sealy....
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doctorjazz:

↳ Dave Sewelson @3:45
That's so odd-there's an ECM Lester Bowie album called The Great Pretender, that's what I was referring to (musta missed something somewhere...)
www.discogs.com...
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northguineahills:

yaye, william parker again! I've said it before, but when i saw william parker live in jacksonville w/ mathew shipp when i was 18 in 94, it got me out of my indie rock ghetto and brought me into the dark side.

/seen him w/ others almost 20 more times since...
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Dave Sewelson:

↳ northguineahills @4:12
yeah ngh.....
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northguineahills:

(seen patricia 5ive times)
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Gina Bacon:

Hi Dave, William and everyone! Sounding great here on a rainy day!
Avatar 4:42pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ Gina Bacon @4:36
GINAGINAGINAGINAGINA....
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:49pm
coelacanth∅:

Thanks Dave! Thanks Mr. Parker!
- have to visit the archive for that which i slept through.

tchau
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doctorjazz:

Thanks Dave, and to your esteemed guest, William Parker, dug the show much!
  4:52pm
william:

thank you all fpr listening
  4:55pm
DavidJ:

Wonderful show William and Dave! Do another and another!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:56pm
tom tom the pipers son:

thanks dave...william...
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Dave Sewelson:

Thanks all you Listenears....
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coelacanth@2-16-25:

man i wish i'd heard this live from the start.
questions come to mind for William.

oh well maybe next time.

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