Tag: William Parker

• Top 40 Over 40.35: Sylvie Courvoisier & Wada Leo Smith Live at Long Play Festival in Brooklyn

  Part of the purpose of this post is to let folks know that I have relocated from Durham NC to Brooklyn NY. While the move was a personal one motivated by the desire to remove the “Long Distance” prefix from a relationship I’ve been in for three and a half years, it comes with some…

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  May 11, 2026

  Music, Top 40 Over 40

  AACM, Aaron Greenwald, Bang On a Can, Billy Hart, Brooklyn, Cecil Taylor, Claws and Wings, David Murray, Durham, Elizabeth C. Adams, Erik Friedlander, John Cage, Long Play Festival, Miles Davis, Music, new-music, Piano, reviews, Steve Lehman, Sylvie Courvoisier, Top 40 Over 40, Trumpet, Wadada Leo Smith, William Parker, writing

• Listening to.1: Brandon Lopez

  Today I’m beginning a new series of posts on the spring chickens. If you’ve followed this blog for awhile, you know I’ve done a series of posts called Top 40 Over 40 about musical artists who have done work after the big four oh that to my ears is as good if not better than…

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  May 15, 2022

  Listening to, Music

  AUM Fidelity, Bass, Brandon Lopez, NYC, Whit Dickey Quartet, William Parker

• Top 40 Over 40.32: Double Sunrise Over Neptune

  There’s an hour left on the first day of 2022 in my time zone. Enough time left to get started on one of my new year’s resolutions: to write shorter posts on this blog, and to write them more often. Here goes. There are very few times these days when I feel like I’m missing…

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  January 2, 2022

  Music, Top 40 Over 40

  AUM Fidelity, Brahim Frigbane, Double Sunrise Over Neptune, Duke University Press, New York City, Oud, Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay, Universal Tonality, William Parker