William Parker & In Order To Survive
Release Date: 05 July 2019
Label: AUM Fidelity
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 642623311028
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Description
An exemplary double-album from one of master bassist-composer-improviser William Parker's flagship groups, recorded live and presenting all-new compositions. Featuring pianist Cooper-Moore, alto saxophonist Rob Brown and drummer Hamid Drake, In Order To Survive is one of the great jazz groups of the past quarter century.
Launched in 1993, In Order To Survive was Parker's first fully dedicated small group. It has always featured Cooper-Moore & Rob Brown, together with a series of drummers (including Denis Charles, and then Susie Ibarra) and occasional additional brass/reeds. A top live draw in New York during the heights of that heady decade, they made momentous visits to Europe as well. This initial phase culminated on record with their first double-live set, The Peach Orchard, an era-defining work released by AUM Fidelity in 1998.
In October 2016, IOTS entered the studio for the first time since 1995. This work was presented as half of the exquisite double-album, Meditation/Resurrection, released in July 2017. Two nights were booked at ShapeShifter Lab in Brooklyn to celebrate its release. "A mid-summer guided self-illumination" was promised on the handbill for these concerts. Live/Shapeshifter presents both sets of night two. Beyond expressing the obvious, the album title states the shamanistic nature of the work at hand.
"Over the course of his long and unwavering career as a composer, bandleader, bassist, and event organizer, Parker has produced a catalog of compositions and a legacy of performances distinguished both by their free-thinking, often radical sense of adventure and by their elemental dedication to beauty and human feeling. More extraordinary, perhaps, Parker appears to be in the midst of a late-career blossoming; he is making (some of) his heftiest music yet, work that reaffirms the imaginative prowess that has made him a stalwart force since the 1970s." - The Nation, (David Hadju)
Press:
"This is music straight out of the rebellious sensibility of the 60s African-American jazz avant garde - but it's pithily inviting, contemporary and always welcome." - **** The Guardian
Tracklisting
James Brandon Lewis / Red Lily Quintet
William Parker
William Parker
William Parker, Cooper-Moore, Hamid Drake
Mendoza Hoff Revels
William Parker & Ellen Christi
William Parker & In Order To Survive
Darius Jones
William Parker & In Order to Survive
