Requiem (William Parker album)

Requiem
Live album by William Parker Bass Quartet featuring Charles Gayle
Released 2006
Recorded May 31, 2004
Vision Festival, The Center, St. Patrick's Old Cathedral, NYC
Genre Jazz
Length 65:38
Label Splasc(H)
CDH 885.2
William Parker chronology

Luc's Lantern
(2004)
Requiem
(2004)
Sound Unity
(2005)

Requiem is a live album by bassist and composer William Parker's Bass Quartet featuring Charles Gayle, which was recorded at the Vision Festival in New York in 2004 and released on the Italian Splasc(H) label.[1]

Reception

The All About Jazz review stated "The group's significance stemmed from the stylistic lineage evident from Grimes to Silva to Sirone to Parker and the addition of guest saxophonist Charles Gayle added a wrinkle, an uncommon hierarchy with a horn playing over four bassists".[2]

Track listing

All compositions by William Parker

  1. "Four Strings Inside a Tree" - 7:08
  2. "When All Is Sad" - 4:59
  3. "For Wilber Morris" - 4:48
  4. "The Little Smile" - 4:16
  5. "Sky Came" - 4:42
  6. "Heaven" - 4:16
  7. "Blues in the Hour Glass" - 8:10
  8. "Shores of Kansas" - 2:51
  9. "Spirits Inside the Bright House" - 9:08
  10. "Bermuda/Atlanta/Philadelphia/Bronx" - 11:34
  11. "The Last Song" - 3:46

Personnel

References

  1. Lopez, R., William Parker sessionography, accessed June 5, 2014
  2. Henkin, A., All About Jazz review, October 8, 2006