Music

William Parker performing at Rhyzome, DC on April 29th, 2023. Thank you to Transparent Productions and Bobby Hill.

As Leader

Featured
Migration of Silence Into and Out of the Tone World [Volumes 1–10]
Migration of Silence Into and Out of the Tone World [Volumes 1–10]

10-CD Box Set = 10 All New Albums, created November 2018–February 2020, expressly for this Box Set.

10 Albums – 91 total tracks – 594 minutes (10 hours) of all new music

Centering Records, 2021

New World Order b​/​w Soledad by William Parker Ensembles featuring Leena Conquest
New World Order b​/​w Soledad by William Parker Ensembles featuring Leena Conquest

The first single in almost 50 years of creating profound Music & close to 100 Albums as a leader/co-leader.

Performed by William Parker Ensembles featuring singer Leena Conquest.


Aum Fidelity, 2020

Trencadís [ a selection from Migration of Silence Into and Out of The Tone World ]
Trencadís [ a selection from Migration of Silence Into and Out of The Tone World ]

10 track advance selection [1 track from each Album] from William Parker's forthcoming 10 CD/Album Box Set entitled, Migration of Silence Into and Out of The Tone World.

Centering Records, 2020

WILLIAM PARKER / IN ORDER TO SURVIVE....Live/Shapeshifter
WILLIAM PARKER / IN ORDER TO SURVIVE....Live/Shapeshifter

Physical edition - 2000 copies, deluxe 8-panel digipak

Aum Fidelity, 2019

Flower in a Stained-Glass Window & The Blinking of the Ear
Flower in a Stained-Glass Window & The Blinking of the Ear

Ltd. Edition 2CD, in deluxe 8-panel digipak

Centering Records, 2018

Voices Fall From The Sky
Voices Fall From The Sky

Featuring various voices /3CD Box Set

Centering Records, 2018

Lake of Light: Compositions for AquaSonics
Lake of Light: Compositions for AquaSonics

AquaSonics, performed on AquaSonic waterphones created by the drummer and percussionist Jackson Krall

Gotta Let It Out, 2018

Meditation / Resurrection
Meditation / Resurrection

 Quartet / In Order To Survive

Aum Fidelity, 2017

Stan's Hat Flapping in the Wind
Stan's Hat Flapping in the Wind

feat. Lisa Sokolov & Cooper-Moore

Centering Records, 2016

Great Spirit
Great Spirit

Raining On The Moon Sextet

AUM Fidelity, 2015

 

For Those Who Are, Still
For Those Who Are, Still

Large Ensembles / 3CD Box Set

AUM Fidelity, 2015

Wood Flute Songs: Anthology/Live 2006-2012
Wood Flute Songs: Anthology/Live 2006-2012

Quartet+++ / 8CD Box Set

AUM Fidelity, 2013

Live In Wroclove
Live In Wroclove

Quartet

ForTune Records, 2013

Essence of Ellington / Live in Milano
Essence of Ellington / Live in Milano

Orchestra

Centering Records, 2012

Centering: Unreleased Early Recordings 1976-1987
Centering: Unreleased Early Recordings 1976-1987

Various Groupings / 6CD Box Set

NoBusiness, 2012

 

Crumbling In The Shadows Is Fraulein Miller's Stale Cake
Crumbling In The Shadows Is Fraulein Miller's Stale Cake

Solo Bass / 3CD Box Set

Centering Records, 2011

 

I Plan To Stay A Believer: The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield
I Plan To Stay A Believer: The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield

Octet++

AUM Fidelity, 2010

Uncle Joe's Spirit House
Uncle Joe's Spirit House

Organ Quartet

Centering Records, 2010

Winter Sun Crying
Winter Sun Crying

w/ ICI Ensemble, Munich

NEOS Jazz, 2010

At Somewhere There
At Somewhere There

Solo

Barnyard Records, 2010

Petit Oiseau
Petit Oiseau

Quartet

AUM Fidelity, 2008

Double Sunrise Over Neptune
Double Sunrise Over Neptune

Orchestra

Arts for Art, Inc./AUM Fidelity, 2008

Corn Meal Dance
Corn Meal Dance

Raining On The Moon Sextet

AUM Fidelity, 2007

Featured
Universal Tonality
Universal Tonality

AUM Fidelity, 2022

Painters Winter
Painters Winter

Trio

AUM Fidelity, 2022

Mayan Space Station
Mayan Space Station

Trio

AUM Fidelity, 2022

The Inside Songs Of Curtis Mayfield: Live In Rome
The Inside Songs Of Curtis Mayfield: Live In Rome

Rai Trade/Radio 3, 2007

Alphaville Suite
Alphaville Suite

Double Quartet

RogueArt, 2007

Requiem
Requiem

William Parker Bass Quartet + Charles Gayle

Splasc(H), 2006

Long Hidden: The Olmec Series
Long Hidden: The Olmec Series

The Olmec Group + solo works

AUM Fidelity, 2006

For Percy Heath
For Percy Heath

The Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra

Victo, 2006

Sound Unity
Sound Unity

Quartet

AUM Fidelity, 2006

Luc's Lantern
Luc's Lantern

Piano Trio w/ Eri Yamamoto & Michael Thompson

Thirsty Ear, 2005

Mass for the Healing of the World
Mass for the Healing of the World

The Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra

Black Saint, 2004

Spontaneous
Spontaneous

The Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra

Splasc(H), 2003

Scrapbook
Scrapbook

Violin Trio w/ Billy Bang & Hamid Drake

Thirsty Ear, 2003

Raincoat In The River
Raincoat In The River

The Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra

Eremite, 2002

Raining On The Moon
Raining On The Moon

Quartet + Leena Conquest

Thirsty Ear, 2002

O'Neal's Porch
O'Neal's Porch

Quartet

AUM Fidelity, 2002 / Centering, 2001

Bob's Pink Cadillac
Bob's Pink Cadillac

Clarinet Trio w/ Perry Robinson & Walter Perkins

Eremite, 2002

Song Cycle
Song Cycle

w/Ellen Christi, Lisa Sokolov, & Yuko Fujiyama

Boxholder, 2001

Mayor Of Punkville
Mayor Of Punkville

The Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra

AUM Fidelity, 2000

Painter's Spring
Painter's Spring

Trio w/ Daniel Carter & Hamid Drake

The Blue Series, 2000

Posium Pendasem
Posium Pendasem

In Order To Survive

FMP, 1999

The Peach Orchard
The Peach Orchard

In Order To Survive

AUM Fidelity, 1998

Lifting The Sanctions
Lifting The Sanctions

Solo Bass

No More, 1998

Through Acceptance Of The Mystery Peace
Through Acceptance Of The Mystery Peace

Eremite, 1998 / Centering, 1981

Sunrise in the Tone World
Sunrise in the Tone World

The Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra

AUM Fidelity, 1997

Compassion Seizes Bed-Stuy
Compassion Seizes Bed-Stuy

In Order To Survive

Homestead, 1996

In Order To Survive
In Order To Survive

In Order To Survive

Black Saint, 1995

Testimony
Testimony

Solo Bass

Zero In, 1995

Flowers Grow In My Room
Flowers Grow In My Room

The Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra

Centering, 1995

As Co-Leader

Featured
Seraphic Light (Live at Tufts University)
Seraphic Light (Live at Tufts University)

Daniel Carter, William Parker & Matthew Shipp

AUM Fidelity, 2018

Hope Cries for Justice
Hope Cries for Justice

Patricia Nicholson & William Parker

Centering Records, 2017

To Roy
To Roy

Oliver Lake & William Parker

Intakt Records, 2015

What I Saw This Morning
What I Saw This Morning

William Parker & David Budbill

A Judevine Mountain Production, 2017

Love and Ghosts
Love and Ghosts

Farmers By Nature

AUM Fidelity, 2014

Live at NHKM
Live at NHKM

Konstrukt & William Parker, 2LP

Holidays Records, 2014

Live at Jazzfestival Saalfelden 2011
Live at Jazzfestival Saalfelden 2011

David S. Ware / Planetary Unknown

AUM Fidelity, 2012

Altitude
Altitude

Joe Morris, William Parker, & Gerald Cleaver

AUM Fidelity, 2012

Planetary Unknown
Planetary Unknown

David S. Ware / Cooper-Moore / William Parker / Muhammad Ali

AUM Fidelity, 2011

Out of This World's Distortions
Out of This World's Distortions

Farmers By Nature

AUM Fidelity, 2011

At Christ Church Deer Park
At Christ Church Deer Park

The Element Choir & William Parker

Barnyard Records, 2011

Prism
Prism

Ninni Morgia & William Parker

Ultramarine, 2010

Onecept
Onecept

David S. Ware, William Parker, & Warren Smith

AUM Fidelity, 2010

Temporary
Temporary

William Parker & Giorgio Dini

Silta, 2009

Farmers By Nature
Farmers By Nature

Gerald Cleaver, William Parker, & Craig Taborn

AUM Fidelity, 2009

Live at Dunois
Live at Dunois

Joëlle Léandre & William Parker

Leo, 2009

Beyond Quantum
Beyond Quantum

Anthony Braxton, Milford Graves, & William Parker

Tzadik, 2008

Live at Crescendo
Live at Crescendo

By Any Means

Ayler Records, 2008

Live at the Sunset
Live at the Sunset

Other Dimensions in Music

Marge Records, 2007

Summer Snow
Summer Snow

William Parker & Hamid Drake

AUM Fidelity, 2007

First Communion + Piercing The Veil
First Communion + Piercing The Veil

William Parker & Hamid Drake

AUM Fidelity, 2007

Palm of Soul
Palm of Soul

Kidd Jordan, Hamid Drake, & William Parker

AUM Fidelity, 2006

Blue Winter
Blue Winter

Fred Anderson, William Parker, Hamid Drake

Eremite, 2005

Fractured Dimensions
Fractured Dimensions

William Parker, Roy Campbell, Daniel Carter, & Alan Silva

FMP, 2003

Songs for a Suffering World
Songs for a Suffering World

David Budbill, William Parker, & Hamid Drake

Boxholder, 2003

Eloping With The Sun
Eloping With The Sun

William Parker, Joe Morris, & Hamid Drake

Riti Records, 2003

New World Pygmies vol. 2
New World Pygmies vol. 2

Jemeel Moondoc & William Parker

Eremite, 2002

Piercing The Veil
Piercing The Veil

William Parker & Hamid Drake

AUM Fidelity, 2001

The Music Ensemble
The Music Ensemble

Roaratorio, 2001

Time Is of the Essence Is Beyond Time
Time Is of the Essence Is Beyond Time

Other Dimensions In Music w/ Mathew Shipp

AUM Fidelity, 2000

Featured
Now!
Now!

Other Dimensions In Music

AUM Fidelity, 1998

Contrabasses
Contrabasses

Joelle Leandre & William Parker

Leo, 1998

Invisible Weave
Invisible Weave

Joe Morris & William Parker

No More Records, 1997

Harras
Harras

Derek Bailey, John Zorn, & William Parker

Avant, 1995

Touchin' On Trane
Touchin' On Trane

Charles Gayle, William Parker, & Rashied Ali

FMP, 1993

Other Dimensions In Music
Other Dimensions In Music

Silkheart, 1990