WILLIAM PARKER "Petit Oiseau" - SEALED double-LP - OUT-of-PRINT limited edition
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Point your EAR HERE to listen to a National Public Radio review of "Petit Oiseau"
“Petit Oiseau" on SHORTWAVE RECORDS (SHW-004) featuring bass titan William Parker with Rob Brown on alto saxophone & clarinet, Lewis Barnes on trumpet and Hamid Drake on drums & percussion performing original compositions by William Parker. Recorded in Brooklyn in December 2007.
Here are some laudatory blurbs:
"The 18-minute opener, 'Groove Street,' perfectly demonstrates what these guys can pull off. Parker states the central idea with a repeating bass line, and Drake gets the rhythms going....Before the 18 minutes are up, the band will have touched bebop, postbop and reggae."
- JazzTimes
"4 stars out of 5 -- never less than absorbing....A coherent and approachable performance....Parker's sense of humor is also on display, whether it's the joyous humor that infuses 'Malachi's Mode' or 'Four For Tommy''s wry wit."
- Down Beat
"With some tautly structured post-bop settings that give way to improvised modes and extended groove based breakdowns. The energy is solid throughout."
- The Wire
"The other, better album to appear last year was "Petit Oiseau", featuring a quartet with Lewis Barnes on trumpet, Rob Brown on alto and Hamid Drake, Parker's strongest rhythm partner, on drums. Here the compositional forms are sturdy and often concise, though they open up to individual and collective abstractions. Ethnic sounds resurface, expicitly or obliquely, and there are stretches of postbop swing, along with loose-limbed funk. Parker holds the whole thing together, inspiring excellent work from his colleagues and hitching the band to a common aim. "Petit Oiseau" is the William Parker record I'd recommend to neophytes and skeptics. Among its many lessons is a better understanding of Parker's bandleading as a corollary to his bass playing"
- Nate Chinen in Jazz Times Magazine
This DOUBLE record album (180 gram with a silk-screened gatefold cover) is in FACTORY SEALED condition with no punch holes or cut-out notches. It is #456 from a hand-numbered limited edition of 500 copies and has been OUT-OF-PRINT for awhile. (Something this good by someone as revered as William Parker tends to SELL OUT quickly!)
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