William Parker and Hamid Drake
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William Parker and Hamid Drake
First Communion + Piercing the Veil: Volume 1 Complete
AUM Fidelity
2 CD
$18 |
2007 reissue of William Parker and Hamid Drake's classic Piercing the Veil, with a full-length bonus disc of a killer live performance recorded at AUM Fidelity's homebase in April 2000. The music is in the tradition of Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell's classic Mu sessions for BYG/Actuel, with free jazz musicians taking cues from other fire musics from around the world and running with them. (The title "Black Cherry" from Piercing would seem to acknowledge these roots.) Joyous and powerful music.
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William Parker: bass, balafon, shakuhachi, bombard, dumbek, slit drum
Hamid Drake: drums, tabla, frame drum, bells
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William Parker and Hamid Drake
Summer Snow
AUM Fidelity
CD
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William Parker and Hamid Drake have been one of the most celebrated and prolific rhythm sections in modern jazz for over a decade, and they clearly love to create music together. They are especially adept at incorporating a broad range of musical traditions into their sound and they tend to give this approach a greater focus when working as a duo. Summer Snow covers a lot of territory, from meditative pieces for shakuhachi, to loose, swinging, and funky bass/drums tracks. "Faces" is a personal favorite, a lovely dance for doson'ngoni + frame drum.
William Parker: doson'ngoni, shakuhachi, dumbek, talking drum, water bowls, bass
Hamid Drake: tabla, frame drum, gongs, drums
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