How dare we spend so much valuable energy answering such questions as "What is Jazz?".
WILLIAM PARKER
, SOUND JOURNAL
William Parker: double bass
Matthew Shipp: piano
All compositions by William Parker (Centering Music, BMI) and Matthew Shipp (Matt Shipp Music – ASCAP)
Recorded by Mai?ko?l Seminatore on February 3rd 2019 at studio Sextan – La Fonderie, Malakoff, France
Mixing and mastering: Mai?ko?l Seminatore
Liner notes: Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Michel Dorbon
Photographs: Bruno Charavet
Cover design: Max Schoendorff
Cover realization: David Bourguignon
Executive producer: Michel Dorbon
There is not much I can say about the music except to say we just play the music. At times what is here seems to me to transcend the idea of music and enter some realm of pure language and vibration. I feel so blessed to be in a duo of this sort. M. S.
All anchored by the tradition of the blues and the cosmic church. Even as the world around us is dying this new Cd “Re-Union” on RogueArt is a testimony of hope and light. W. P.
