Compassionate Logic Systems: Reflections on Black Life and Creative Black Music, September 8, 2020

WILLIAM PARKER is a bassist, improviser, composer, writer, and educator from New York City. In addition to recording more than 150 albums, he has published six books and taught and mentored hundreds of young musicians and artists. Parker’s current bands include the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra, In Order to Survive, and Raining on the Moon. Throughout his career, he has performed with Bill Dixon, Roscoe Mitchell, Cecil Taylor, Don Cherry, Milford Graves, and David S. Ware and poets Alan Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka, Miguel Pinero, and Jayne Cortez.