[CENTERING 1011]
BOOK - 8.5"x11", 482 pages, 370+ illustrations, 3.5 pounds (safely shipped), edition of 500, published in 2014.
/// This new offering is due to a thorough surprise WP storage space find (72 copies to be exact). Unavailable direct for many years. All in brand new, mint condition.
/// The creator of this profound & essential work is the deeply obsessive (and beloved) vortex mind/being that is =Rick Lopez= of Erie, PA. [ noting here that Mr Lopez recently published (early 2023) the similarly weighty/essential tome, The Sam Rivers Discography. Type it and his name in your browser and you will find that jaw-dropping beauty, too. ]
/// The William Parker Sessionography by Rick Lopez was 15 years in the making. Astonishing, profound, worthy of high honors in the field of such research and any all positive adjectives that can be bestowed on such a mighty creation. A labor of both deep love and an exceedingly dedicated nature.
This is not a discography (although a complete-to-publish date WP discography is a part of it); this is a fully annotated (and lavishly illustrated) record of every time that William Parker has ever played a gig, with all and every ensemble, as band member or leader, from 1972 clear through to Vision Festival 2014.
This is a vast microcosm of one jazz musician that reveals a macrocosm of jazz during the period of time covered – an extensive history of jazz through the work schedule of one profound jazz musician and his affiliations with elemental participants in that history.
This 8.5"x11" 482-page book, with 370+ illustrations, weighing in at over 3 pounds, was private-press published in an edition of 500 copies. It was first made available at Vision Festival 19 in June 2014.
/// ! Overseas and Canada !
Yes, it is very VERY expensive to ship this book Overseas (and to Canada, even) because it is heavy, and USPS postage costs have been increasing heavily over the past 5 years.
"An astonishing feat of jazz scholarship that will be regarded as the touchstone for any scholar of Parker's work and the defining era of freedom music he was partly responsible for creating." –Edwin Pouncey, The Wire
"An astonishing opus, one of the best of its kind. A handsome volume, well-bound, it is amply illustrated with photographs, illustrations, posters and album covers. This sessionography goes a long way in adding to the understanding of the complex world of William Parker and his wide-ranging art. Lopez has fulfilled the goal that he set out for himself when he started his website (with no intention of having a printed analog): to honor the music." –Robert Iannapollo, ARSC Journal
"One of the coolest books we've ever seen for any musician, label, or generation." –Dusty Groove
Excerpt from the Introduction, by Ed Hazell:
Compiling a sessionography of the seemingly inexhaustible William Parker calls for a relentless and thorough researcher. Rarely has a musician’s career been so conscientiously documented. Rick Lopez' William Parker Sessionography can take its place among the great discographical classics such as Walter C. Allen’s bio-discography of Fletcher Henderson, Hendersonia; Ben Young’s opus on trumpeter Bill Dixon, Dixonia; and The Coltrane Reference by Lewis Porter, Chris DeVito, David Wild, Yasuhiro Fujioka, and Wolf Schmaler. Like those other encyclopedic compilations of names, locations, dates, and commentary, this one tells a story of an artist and an era as compelling as any novel and more detailed than any biography could aspire to be.
Much like the music itself, this book is an act of devotion, not just to facts but to shared ideals and a shared love of beauty. It was done because it needed to be done.
Uncle Joe's Spirit House –
Pre-Order Ltd. Edition LP on Black Vinyl
William Parker Organ Quartet
$25 USD
On Being Native – Ltd. Edition DVD
$15 USD
Zen Mountains Zen Streets –
Ltd. Edition 2CD, in slimline brilliant box
David Budbill & William Parker
$20 USD
William Parker – Mayor Of Punkville
$11 USD
Voices In The First Person, Volume 2 [Art and Language of Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson, Alan Glover, Steve Swell, and Christopher Collins]
$25 USD
Universal Tonality – Ltd. Edition 2CD, in deluxe 6-panel digipak
$20 USD
Migration of Silence Into and Out of The Tone World – [Volumes 1–10] – Strictly Ltd. 2nd [& final] Deluxe Edition 10-CD Box Set
$80 USD
Meditation / Resurrection –
Ltd. Edition 2CD, in deluxe 8-panel digipak
William Parker Quartets
$20 USD
Meditation / Resurrection –
Special Bundle >> 2x Deluxe 2CD Sets >>
William Parker Quartets
$30 USD
Voices In The First Person [Art and Language of Lois Eby, Anne Humanfeld, Jo Wood-Brown, and Marilyn Sontag]
$25 USD
Mayan Space Station – Ltd. Edition LP on Black Vinyl
$24 USD
Mayan Space Station – Ltd. Edition CD, in deluxe 4-panel digipak
$14 USD
Painters Winter – Ltd. Edition CD, in deluxe 4-panel digipak
$14 USD
Painters Winter – Ltd. Edition LP on Black Vinyl
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I Plan To Stay A Believer: The Inside Songs Of Curtis Mayfield – Ltd. Edition 2CD, in slimline jewelcase
$18 USD
I Plan To Stay A Believer: The Inside Songs Of Curtis Mayfield – Ltd. Edition 2LP on Black Vinyl
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Live/Shapeshifter –
Ltd. Edition 2CD, in deluxe 8-panel digipak
William Parker / In Order To Survive
$20 USD
Hope Cries For Justice –
Ltd. Edition CD, in gatefold wallet sleeve
Patricia Nicholson & William Parker
$10 USD
Bass Duo –
Ltd. Edition CD, in deluxe 6-panel digipak
William Parker & Stefano Scodanibbio
$14 USD
Stan's Hat Flapping In The Wind –
Ltd. Edition CD, in deluxe 6-panel digipak
William Parker feat. Lisa Sokolov & Cooper-Moore
$14 USD
What I Saw This Morning –
Ltd. Edition CD in 6-panel digipak
William Parker & David Budbill
$10 USD
Great Spirit –
Ltd. Edition CD
William Parker / Raining On The Moon
$12 USD
For Those Who Are, Still – Ltd. Edition 3CD Box Set
$25 USD
Petit Oiseau –
Ltd. Edition Compact Disc
William Parker Quartet
$14 USD
Corn Meal Dance –
Ltd Edition CD, in jewelcase w/ 20pg. booklet
William Parker / Raining On The Moon
$14 USD
Long Hidden: The Olmec Series – Ltd. Edition CD, in deluxe digipak & w/ bonus track
$15 USD
Sound Unity –
Ltd. Edition CD
William Parker Quartet
$14 USD
O'Neal's Porch –
Ltd. Edition CD, in deluxe digipak
William Parker Quartet
$14 USD
Song Cycle –
Ltd. Edition CD
William Parker w/ Ellen Christi, Lisa Sokolov, Yuko Fujiyama
$14 USD
William Parker New York, New York
is a master musician–improvisor–composer–bandleader–griot–shaman–poet–community
leader.
Featured here are the premier works produced for both AUM Fidelity & his own Centering Records imprint.
portrait by
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