William Parker
William Parker is a master musician, improviser, and composer. He plays the bass, shakuhachi, ngoni and gembri. He was born in 1952 in the Bronx, New York and studied bass with Richard Davis, Art Davis, Milt Hinton, Wilber Ware, and Jimmy Garrison. He entered the music scene in 1971 playing at Studio We, Studio Rivbea, Hilly’s on The Bowery and The Baby Grand where he played with many musicians on the avant-garde scean: Bill Dixon, Sunny Murray, Billy Higgins, Rashid Ali, Donald Ayler, Don Cherry, Cecil Taylor. Parker played in the Cecil Taylor unit from 1980 through 1991. He has also taught music workshops throughout the world including Paris, Berlin and Tokyo and the Lower East Side. Parker is also a theorist and author of several books including the Sound Journal, Document Humanum, Music and the Shadow People and The Mayor of Punkville.
This was shot in Greenwich Village with Ilford Pan F 50 and was Honorable Mention in the 2008 PX3 competition (Paris) . PLEASE VIEW LARGE!
William Parker
William Parker is a master musician, improviser, and composer. He plays the bass, shakuhachi, ngoni and gembri. He was born in 1952 in the Bronx, New York and studied bass with Richard Davis, Art Davis, Milt Hinton, Wilber Ware, and Jimmy Garrison. He entered the music scene in 1971 playing at Studio We, Studio Rivbea, Hilly’s on The Bowery and The Baby Grand where he played with many musicians on the avant-garde scean: Bill Dixon, Sunny Murray, Billy Higgins, Rashid Ali, Donald Ayler, Don Cherry, Cecil Taylor. Parker played in the Cecil Taylor unit from 1980 through 1991. He has also taught music workshops throughout the world including Paris, Berlin and Tokyo and the Lower East Side. Parker is also a theorist and author of several books including the Sound Journal, Document Humanum, Music and the Shadow People and The Mayor of Punkville.
This was shot in Greenwich Village with Ilford Pan F 50 and was Honorable Mention in the 2008 PX3 competition (Paris) . PLEASE VIEW LARGE!