William Parker Songs List

The Wire: "Parker's allusive wordplays repay repeated attention. Another perspective on the great man's work."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 6.Land Song
• 7.Prayer
• 8.Old Tears
• 9.Gilmore's Hat
• 1.Doctor Yesterday
• 2.Tutsi Orphans
• 3.Poem For June Jordan
• 4.Soledad
• 5.Corn Meal Dance

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Tobasco
• 2.Rocas Rojas
• 3.Domingo
• 4.Mayan Space Station
• 5.Canyons of Light
• 6.The Wall Falls Down

The Wire: "[W]ith some tautly structured post-bop settings that give way to improvised modes and extended groove based breakdowns. The energy is solid throughout..."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Medley: Groove Sweet / Groove #7/Hamid's Groove / Daughter's Joy
• 2.Talaps Theme
• 3.Petit Oisea
• 4.The Golden Bell
• 5.Four For Tommy
• 6.Malachi's Mode
• 7.Dust From A Mountain
• 8.Shorter For Alan

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 4.Handsome Lake
• 5.Rodney's Resurrection
• 6.Horace Silver, Pt. 1
• 7.Give Me Back My Drum
• Tracks of Disc 2
• 1.Sunrise in East Harlem
• 2.Some Lake Oliver
• 3.Things Falling Apart
• 4.Urban Disruption
• 5.Orange Winter Flower
• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Criminals in the White House
• 2.Leaves / Rain
• 3.Horace Silver, Pt. 2

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Purple
• 2.Sun
• 3.O'Neal's Porch
• 4.Rise
• 5.Song For Jesus
• 6.Leaf
• 7.Song For Jesus 3/4
• 8.Moon

The Wire: "A beautiful record by any measure..."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Adena
• 2.Song For Tyler
• 3.Mourning Sunset
• 4.Evening Star Song
• 5.Luc's Lantern
• 6.Jaki
• 7.Bud in Alphaville
• 8.Charcoal Flower
• 9.Phoenix
• 10.Candlesticks on the Lake

Alternative Press: 5 out of 5 - "...A meditative collection of beautiful music..."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Foundation #1
• 2.Come Sunday
• 3.Blues For Percy
• 4.Flash
• 5.There Is a Balm in Gilead
• 6.Foundation #4
• 7.Foundation #2
• 8.Trilog

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 5.Urban
• 6.Holiday For Flowers
• 1.Scrapbook
• 2.Sunday Morning Church
• 3.Singing Spirits
• 4.Dust on a White Shirt

The Wire: "The three solo bass offerings are simply spectacular..."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.There Is a Balm in Gilead
• 2.Long Hidden Part Two
• 3.Codex
• 4.El Puente Seco
• 5.Long Hidden Part Three
• 6.Cathedral of Light
• 7.Compassion Seizes Bed-Stuy
• 8.Pok-a-Tok
• 9.Espirito
• 10.Long Hidden Part One

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Groove 77
• 2.Painters Winter
• 3.Happiness
• 4.Painted Scarf
• 5.A Curley Russell

Down Beat: 4 stars out of 5 -- "There is an immensely powerful and convinced assault to the much of the music here, and both CDS warrant repeat listening."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.I Plan to Stay a Believer
• 2.If There's a Hell Below
• 3.We the People Who Are Darker Than Blue
• 4.I'm So Proud / Ya He Yey Ya
• 5.This Is My Country
• Tracks of Disc 2
• 1.People Get Ready / The Inside Song
• 2.This Is My Country
• 3.It's Alright
• 4.Move On Up
• 5.Freddie's Dead
• 6.New World Order

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Tails of a Peock
• 2.Cloud TextureDeath Has Died Today)
• 3.Leaves Gatherg (Headed Back to Tree)
• Tracks of Disc 2
• 1.Silver Sunshi
• 2.All EntrancesIt Is for You the Sun Rises)
• 3.Open System O

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.For Fannie Lou Hamer
• 2.Vermeer
• 3.Awash in the Midst of an Angel's Tears
• 4.Essence
• 5.Flower Song [Take 2]
• 6.Just Feel
• 7.Feet As Roses
• 8.Gongs for Deaf Dreams
• 9.Sweet Breeze
• 10.Flower Song [Take 1]
• Tracks of Disc 2
• 1.Villages, Greetings and Prayer
• 2.Souls Have Fallen Like Rain
• 3.The Giraffe Dances
• 4.Tour of the Flying Poem
• 5.Children Drawing Water from the Well
• 6.Where Do You Send the Poem
• Tracks of Disc 3
• 1.A Magical Figure Dances Barefoot in the Mud
• 2.Light Shimmering Across a Field of Ice
• 3.Trees With Wings
• 4.Rise Up in Sound
• 5.Humble Serious
• 6.Tea Leaves of Triple Sadness
• 7.Ritual
• 8.Winter
• 9.My Cup
• 10.Encore
• 11.Escapade for Sonny

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Eternal Is the Voice of Love - part I (feat. Rob Brown, Cooper-Moore & Hamid Drake)
• 2.Eternal Is the Voice of Love - part II (feat. Rob Brown, Cooper-Moore & Hamid Drake)
• 3.Eternal Is the Voice of Love - part III (feat. Rob Brown, Cooper-Moore & Hamid Drake)
• 4.Eternal Is the Voice of Love - part IV (feat. Rob Brown, Cooper-Moore & Hamid Drake)
• 5.Eternal Is the Voice of Love - part V (feat. Rob Brown, Cooper-Moore & Hamid Drake)
• Tracks of Disc 2
• 1.Demons Lining the Halls of Justice (feat. Rob Brown, Cooper-Moore & Hamid Drake)
• 2.Drum & Bass Interlude (feat. Hamid Drake)
• 3.Newark (for Grachan Moncur III) [feat. Rob Brown, Cooper-Moore & Hamid Drake]
• 4.In Order To Survive (feat. Rob Brown, Cooper-Moore & Hamid Drake)
• 5.Eternity (feat. Rob Brown, Cooper-Moore & Hamid Drake)

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Light Is Wisdom
• 2.Milford Graves
• 3.Sound Is Joy
• 4.Alan Silva
• 5.If You Open
• 6.Dave Burrell
• 7.Up Your Eyes
• 8.Ge Gan-Ru
• 9.Music Will Save The Day
• 10.Henry Warner
• 11.Mountains Are In Your Heart
• 12.Han Bennink
• 13.They Cross The Sky
• 14.Alan Glover
• 15.As Clouds
• 16.Clyde Kerr
• 17.May Enlightenment Come
• 18.Carl Lombard
• 19.May We Love The Earth
• 20.Richard Rodriguez
• 21.May There Be Radiance
• 22.Sunny Murray
• 23.As Sound Mirrors
• 24.Walter Perkins
• 25.Reflect
• 26.Cooper-Moore
• 27.Silence
• 28.Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson
• 29.Clouds Now Paint Dancers
• 30.Billy Bang
• 31.Dancers Sing
• 32.Jacques Bisceglia
• 33.It Begins To Rain
• 34.Fred Anderson
• 35.And It Is Forever Beautiful
• 36.Frank Lowe
• 37.Seeing Angels
• 38.Oluyemi Thomas
• 39.Who Inspire
• 40.Charles Gayle
• 41.Each Moment
• 42.Warren Smith
• 43.Be Healed And Uplifted
• 44.Mark Whitecage
• 45.Not Tomorrow Today

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Re-union
• 2.The New Zo
• 3.Further Dna
• 4.Song Of Two

• Tracks of Disc 4
• 1.Entire Universe
• 2.Cheops
• 3.The Map Is Precise
• 4.If We Play Soft Enough
• 5.Harriott
• Tracks of Disc 5
• 1.Dancing at the Savoy
• 2.Don't Sell My Soul
• 3.Harlem Dances
• 4.Harlem Speaks
• 5.Paintings in the Sky
• 6.Shutters as Windows
• Tracks of Disc 6
• 1.Tilted Mirror
• 2.Mexico
• 3.The Bleeding Tree
• 4.It Is for You
• Tracks of Disc 7
• 1.Song to Lift Sadness (Morning)
• 2.The Sky Is Always Beautiful
• 3.Morning Bird
• 4.Rocket Man
• 5.Essence Calling Out
• 6.Afternoon Poem
• 7.First Vision
• 8.Green and Brown
• 9.I Believe
• 10.I Will Die for You
• 11.Song for Patricia
• 12.My Cup
• 13.Silent Whispers
• 14.It Would Never Be Long Enough
• 15.Song to Lift Sadness (Evening)
• 16.Cloud and Sea Fading as Rain Falls
• Tracks of Disc 8
• 1.Visconti
• 2.Fellini
• 3.Pasolini
• 4.Leone
• 5.De Sica
• 6.Rossellini
• 7.Gospel
• 8.Milano
• 9.Lights in the Rain
• 10.Antonioni
• Tracks of Disc 9
• 1.Elders at the Edge of the World, Pt. 1, The - (featuring Klaas Hekman / Coen Aalberts)
• 2.Cultivation - (featuring Coen Aalberts)
• 3.Deep Spirit - (featuring Klaas Hekman / Coen Aalberts)
• 4.Family Voice - (featuring Coen Aalberts)
• 5.Listen to the Sky - (featuring Coen Aalberts)
• 6.Sacred Prayers - (featuring Coen Aalberts)
• 7.Host for the Anointed - (featuring Coen Aalberts)
• 8.Bamboo Village - (featuring Coen Aalberts)
• 9.Blessed - (featuring Coen Aalberts)
• 10.Flute Reaches Out, The - (featuring Coen Aalberts)
• 11.World's Fastest Train, The - (featuring Coen Aalberts)
• 12.Joyous and Delightful - (featuring Coen Aalberts)
• 13.Elders at the Edge of the World, Pt. 2, The - (featuring Coen Aalberts)
• Tracks of Disc 10
• 1.Charcoal Paragraphs
• 2.Khaen
• 3.Lakota Song
• 4.Manzanar
• 5.On Being Native
• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Listen
• 2.Cosmic Funk
• 3.I'd Rather Be
• 4.A Great Day to Be Dead
• 5.Jenny's Interlude
• 6.Blue Limelight
• 7.Bennie's Tune
• 8.Recall
• 9.Kachina Song
• 10.All I Ever Want
• 11.Where the Angels Lie
• 12.Old Tears
• Tracks of Disc 2
• 1.Malachi's Mode
• 2.Malcolm's Smile
• 3.This Sweet Land
• 4.Golden Light, The (Hymn)
• 5.Mexico
• 6.Broken Promises
• 7.Child of Sound
• 8.Sky Falling
• 9.Adobe House
• 10.Rez Sunset
• 11.Trail of Tears I
• 12.Trail of Tears II
• 13.Rez Sunrise
• 14.Ascending Earth
• Tracks of Disc 3
• 1.Baldwin
• 2.The Majesty of Jah
• 3.Freedom
• 4.Sun Song
• 5.Numbers
• 6.Letter to a Resurrected Slave Owner

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Groove 77
• 2.Painters Winter
• Tracks of Disc 2
• 1.Happiness
• 2.Painted Scarf

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Tabasco
• 2.Mayan Space Station
• Tracks of Disc 2
• 1.Domingo
• 2.Canyons Of Light

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Espirito
• 2.Airlift
• 3.Bouquet for Borah
• 4.City of Flowers
• 5.Despues de la Guerra
• 6.Small Lobby
• 7.So Important
• 8.We Often Danced
• 9.Voices Fall From the Sky
• 10.Revolution
• 11.Tree Called Poem
• Tracks of Disc 2
• 1.All I Want
• 2.Baldwin's Interlude
• 3.For Julius Eastman
• 4.Aborigine Song
• 5.Life Song
• 6.Band in the Sky
• 7.Sweet Breeze
• 8.Morning Moon
• 9.Thought for Silence
• 10.Poem for June Jordan
• 11.Autumn Song
• 12.Falling Shadows
• 13.Tour of the Flying Poem
• 14.Prayer
• Tracks of Disc 3
• 1.The Essence of Ellington
• 2.Lights of Lake George
• 3.For Fannie Lou Hamer
• 4.Deep Flower
• 5.The Blinking of the Ear: Mediatation on Freedom
• 6.The Blinking of the Ear: Without Love Everything Will fail
• 7.The Blinking of the Ear: Dark Remembrance
• 8.The Blinking of the Ear: Heavenly Home Meditation on Peace
• 9.Natasha's Theme

JazzTimes: "Barnes and Brown make an engaging frontline pair, proficient in impromptu tandem movements as well as witty call and response."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Hawaii
• 2.Wood Flute Song
• 3.Poem For June Jordan
• 4.Sound Unity
• 5.Harlem
• 6.Groove

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Fallen Flower
• 2.Gone
• 3.Emmett Till
• 4.Broken Earth
• 5.I Had A Dream Last Night
• 6.Flag
• 7.Give Me Back My Drum
• 8.Living Hope
• 9.Children
• 10.What Is That About?
• 11.Music Song
• 12.Samba
• Tracks of Disc 2
• 1.Meditation On Freedom
• 2.Without Love Everything Will Fail
• 3.Dark Remembrance
• 4.Heavenly Home Meditation On Peace (Part 1)
• 5.Heavenly Home Meditation On Peace (Part 2)