Abstract Rhythm in Time DigitalART with williamparker.bandcamp.com/music / by Alan Silva

Abstract Rhythm in Time DigitalARTis a music and ARTvideo streaming service developed by Alan Silva publishes every day, or almost, music videos A.R.T.D.ART VIDEO is a way of composing, improvising, and performing that brings AVmusics together rather than segregating them. It is a way of making AVmusic which holds that allAV musics are created equal, coexisting in a beautiful brotherhoood/sisterhood of AVmusics that complement and fructify each other. It is a global concept which allows the world’s AVmusics—written, improvised, handed-down, traditional, experimental—to come together, to learn, from one another, to reflect human diversity and pluralism. It is the music of rapprochement, o f entente_not of competition and confrontation. And it is the logical outcome of the American melting

That William Parker is a bassist, composer and bandleader of extraordinary spirit and imaginative drive is common knowledge among any with an interest in the progressive jazz scene of the past 25 years or more. What’s become increasingly apparent, though, is Parker’s stature as a visionary of sound and song – an artist of melody and poetry who works beyond category, to use the Ellingtonian phrase. The latest multi-disc boxed set from Centering Records/AUM Fidelity devoted to Parker’s expansive creativity underscores his virtually peerless achievement in recent years.

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