William Parker

Jazz Festival's bright riffs overshadow venue's flaws 09/07/2009

Jazz Consumer Guide: A Summer Suite of Harmonic Disorder 08/18/2009

Pleasantly Unsettling Surprises Abound at Vision Festival 06/23/2009

Music Review | Marshall Allen: Honoring One Man in 2 Guises 06/13/2009

In the early '90s, the direct musical heirs of Taylor, Ayler, and Coleman were mostly ignored by New York jazz critics, who found more to like about the hard bop revivalists who dominated major-label recording. Hence, the public visibility of musicians devoted to an "energy music" aesthetic was minimal. Despite its low profile, however, that strain of free jazz was kept alive by a fairly large ...more