Myself With Others

Adam Shatz

Myself with Others is a podcast about the life of ideas, featuring conversations with creative minds in arts, culture and writing. Each of these conversations is a portrait, exploring the place “between thought and expression,” in the words of Lou Reed, where life is lived, creation begins and new worlds are imagined.

  1. 12/21/2021

    Adam Shatz and William Parker, part 2

    The bassist, composer and poet William Parker is the soul of the Lower East Side free jazz scene. A veteran of ensembles led by Cecil Taylor, Bill Dixon, Billy Bang and David S. Ware, Parker is also remarkable leader in his own right. In 2021 he released a ten-disc boxed set, The Music of William Parker: Migration of Silence into and out of the Tone World, Volumes 1-10, featuring compositions in a dizzying range of styles. With his wife and collaborator, the dancer Patricia Nicholson Parker, Parker has turned the annual Vision Festival into one of the defining events in New York creative music. In our conversation, William spoke to me about his early years in the Bronx, how he rose up in the “Loft scene” of the 1970s, his experiences with Cecil Taylor, and his understanding of music as a force of revolutionary social transformation. Links and References: recordings in this episode Migration of Silence into and out of the Tone World I Plan to Stay a Believer: The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield Piercing The Veil Farmers by Nature: Love and Ghosts Cecil Taylor Unit: The Eighth Blue Lime Light: A Tribute to Cecil Taylor David S. Ware Quartet - Surrendered James Brandon Lewis: Jesup Wagon links and additional music Universal Tonality - Cisco Bradley Arts for Art / Vision Festival William Parker Tone World - New York Times The Life and Music of William Parker - Brooklyn Rail Lisa Sokolov David S. Ware & Apogee David S. Ware - Passage to Music Amiri Baraka - Black Music (re: Jazz and the White Critic) Art Taylor - Notes and Tones

    45 min
  2. 12/21/2021

    Adam Shatz and William Parker, part 1

    The bassist, composer and poet William Parker is the soul of the Lower East Side free jazz scene. A veteran of ensembles led by Cecil Taylor, Bill Dixon, Billy Bang and David S. Ware, Parker is also remarkable leader in his own right. In 2021 he released a ten-disc boxed set, The Music of William Parker: Migration of Silence into and out of the Tone World, Volumes 1-10, featuring compositions in a dizzying range of styles. With his wife and collaborator, the dancer Patricia Nicholson Parker, Parker has turned the annual Vision Festival into one of the defining events in New York creative music. In our conversation, William spoke to me about his early years in the Bronx, how he rose up in the “Loft scene” of the 1970s, his experiences with Cecil Taylor, and his understanding of music as a force of revolutionary social transformation. Links and References: recordings in this episode Migration of Silence into and out of the Tone World I Plan to Stay a Believer: The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield Piercing The Veil Farmers by Nature: Love and Ghosts Cecil Taylor Unit: The Eighth Blue Lime Light: A Tribute to Cecil Taylor David S. Ware Quartet - Surrendered James Brandon Lewis: Jesup Wagon links and additional music Universal Tonality - Cisco Bradley Arts for Art / Vision Festival William Parker Tone World - New York Times The Life and Music of William Parker - Brooklyn Rail Lisa Sokolov David S. Ware & Apogee David S. Ware - Passage to Music Amiri Baraka - Black Music (re: Jazz and the White Critic) Art Taylor - Notes and Tones

    57 min

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Myself with Others is a podcast about the life of ideas, featuring conversations with creative minds in arts, culture and writing. Each of these conversations is a portrait, exploring the place “between thought and expression,” in the words of Lou Reed, where life is lived, creation begins and new worlds are imagined.