William Parker

US free jazz double bassist, multi-instrumentalist, poet & composer, United States, 1952 to present

Albums

Year Title Average Ratings
2018 Voices Fall From the Sky 10.0 1
2021 Migration of Silence Into and Out of the Tone World, Volumes 1–10 6.0 1
103 more releases
1980 Through Acceptance of the Mystery Peace
1983 Some Order, Long Understood
1987 Vermont Spring 1986
1994 Zo
1996 Testimony
1996 Cama de terra
1997 Sad Life
1997 9
1998 Lifting the Sanctions
1998 Broken/Circle
1998 Authenticity
1999 Cherry Box
1999 A Hero’s Welcome: Pieces for Rare Occasions
1999 DNA
2001 2nd Set
2001 Song Cycle
2001 Piercing the Veil
2002 Eloping With the Sun
2003 Songs for a Suffering World
2004 Brooklyn Calling
2005 Evolving Silence, Vol. 1
2005 Luc’s Lantern
2006 Evolving Silence, Vol. 2
2006 Long Hidden: The Olmec Series
2006 The Dream
2006 Spirits Up Above
2006 Only
2006 Palm of Soul
2007 Corn Meal Dance
2007 Feels Like It
2007 The Last Dances
2007 Tamarindo
2008 On Reade Street
2008 Beyond Quantum
2009 In the Shade of Sun
2009 Temporary
2010 Vertical Invaders
2010 Prism
2011 What Shall We Do (Without You)
2011 One Sunday
2011 Knives From Heaven
2011 We
2011 Planetary Unknown
2011 Crumbling in the Shadows Is Fraulein Miller’s Stale Cake
2012 The Gowanus Session
2013 Vita brevis
2013 Serendipity
2014 Book of Sound
2014 Alternating Current
2015 To Roy
2015 Song for a New Decade
2015 For Those Who Are, Still
2015 Emanate
2015 Great Spirit
2016 New Normal
2016 Stan’s Hat Flapping in the Wind
2016 The Art of the Improv Trio, Volume 4
2016 A Long Way Home
2017 What I Saw This Morning
2017 Hope Cries for Justice
2017 Heptagon
2017 Emptying the Self
2018 Lake of Light: Compositions for AquaSonics
2018 OPTION AUDIO 005
2018 Flower in a Stained-Glass Window & The Blinking of the Ear
2019 Near Disaster
2019 Ineffable Joy
2020 Gowanus Sessions II
2020 Welcome Adventure! Vol. 1
2020 Tales From
2021 Re-Union
2021 Painters Winter
2021 Mayan Space Station
2021 Music Frees Our Souls, Vol. 1
2021 El Templo
2021 Village Mothership
2021 No Joke!
2022 2 Blues for Cecil
2022 Sparks
2022 O Life, O Light, Vol. 1
2022 Welcome Adventure! Vol. 2
2022 The Deep
2022 Thinking Unthinking
2022 Broken Unbroken
2022 Live at Scholes Street Studio
2022 Alien Skin
2022 The Gate
2023 Red Giraffe With Dreadlocks
2023 Music Frees Our Souls, Vol. 2
2023 O Life, O Light, Vol. 2
2023 Shine Hear, Vol. 1
2024 Why
2024 Cereal Music
2024 Heart Trio
2024 Bakunawa
2024 Shine Hear, Vol. 2
2024 Pulsar
2024 Heart Trio Flow
2025 Muscle Memory
2026 Synesthesia
2026 Transcendent Universe
2026 Waltz for Gregory
Going Through

Live

Year Title Average Ratings
1991 LOOKING (Berlin Version) CORONA
1993 Touchin’ on Trane
1994 Fragments of Music, Life and Death of Albert Ayler
1994 Sacred Scrape
1994 Kingdom Come
1995 Harras
1995 In Order to Survive
1996 Seeing New York From the Ear
1997 Live
1997 Invisible Weave
1998 Contrabasses
1998 The Peach Orchard
76 more releases
1999 Zen Mountains Zen Streets
1999 Alain Kirili Musée Grenoble
1999 New World Pygmies
2000 2 Days in April
2000 Live at Radio Valencia
2001 New World Pygmies, Vol. 2
2002 Nothung
2002 Emancipation Suite #1
2003 The All-Star Game
2003 Never Too Late But Always Too Early
2003 The Cooler Suite
2003 The Victoriaville Tape
2003 Fractured Dimensions
2004 After You Gone
2004 Fire Into Music
2004 Deep Music
2005 Two Masters (live at the Prism)
2005 Blue Winter
2006 Vision Festival X, NYC
2007 Blown Away
2007 Volume 2: Summer Snow
2008 DMG @ The Stone, Volume 2
2008 Double Sunrise Over Neptune
2008 CT: The Dance Project
2009 Tribute to Albert Ayler: Live at the Dynamo
2009 Live in the Ghetto
2009 Farmers by Nature
2009 Washed Away: Live at the Sunside
2009 Live at Dunois
2009 At Somewhere There
2010 The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield: Live in Rome
2010 Serving an Evolving Humanity
2010 I Plan to Stay a Believer: The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield
2011 Live at the Guelph Jazz Festival 2011
2011 At Christ Church Deer Park
2011 Winter Sun Crying
2011 Secret Garden
2012 Altitude
2012 Planetary Unknown: Live at Jazzfestival Saalfelden 2011
2013 CHILE•NEW YORK•AfghanIRAQ
2013 Tender Exploration
2013 Navajo Sunrise
2013 Friday Afternoon
2013 Kalaparusha on the Edge of the Horizon
2014 The Vancouver Tapes
2014 Medicine Buddha
2015 Cleaning the Mirror
2015 Live at the Tranzac Vol. 1
2015 Live at NHKM
2015 Live at La Resistenza
2015 Live at Jazzwerkstatt Peitz
2016 Song Sentimentale
2017 Vol. 1: Erie Live!
2017 Vol. 2: Toronto Live!
2017 Vol. 3: Rochester Live!
2017 Bass Duo
2017 Deep Within
2018 In Between the Tumbling a Stillness
2018 Seraphic Light [Live at Tufts University]
2018 THE FLOW OF SPIRIT
2019 Live at the Bushwick Series
2019 In Memory of Lester Bowie
2020 Hasselt 2010
2020 Live at Ibeam
2020 A Tribute to Alvin Fielder (Live at Vision Festival XXIV)
2020 Goes Without Saying, but It’s Got to Be Said
2021 Some Good News
2021 Live Ateliers Claus
2022 Historic Music Past Tense Future
2022 Universal Tonality
2023 Let Those Walls Crumble
2023 Visitation of Spirits: The Pyramid Trio Live, 1985
2023 For Those Who Cross the Seas
2024 Three for Free
2024 WEBO
2025 No Kings!