Scrapbook (album)

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Scrapbook
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Studio album by
William Parker Violin Trio
ReleasedJune 17, 2003
RecordedMay 2002
StudioStrobe-Light Studio, NYC
Genre Jazz
Length40:38
Label Thirsty Ear
THI57133-2
Producer William Parker
William Parker chronology
Eloping with the Sun
(2001)
Scrapbook
(2003)
Spontaneous
(2002)

Scrapbook is an album by American jazz bassist and composer William Parker's Violin Trio featuring Billy Bang which was recorded in 2002 and released on the Thirsty Ear label. [1] [2]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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In his review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek states "This is a restrained and lovely album that possesses real firepower in places, but it's almost never necessary because the level of communication runs so deep between these players that everything feels light as a breeze, poignant as a memory, and as fresh as a wound" [3] The Penguin Guide to Jazz observed "There is plenty of open improvisation to be found but it's the structure of these six songs that is intriguing". [4]

The All About Jazz review said the album "combines the raw sounds of the blues, spirituals, and funk with a keen sense of adventurous experimentation". [5] JazzTimes enthused "This CD can easily sit alongside Parker's recent and equally brilliant quartet recording, O'Neal's Porch ". [6]

Track listing

All compositions by William Parker.

  1. "Scrapbook" - 8:02
  2. "Sunday Morning Church" - 11:31
  3. "Singing Spirits" - 5:00
  4. "Dust on a White Shirt" - 5:06
  5. "Urban" - 7:24
  6. "Holiday for Flowers" - 3:23

Personnel

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References

  1. Lopez, R., William Parker sessionography, accessed May 27, 2014
  2. Thirsty Ear catalog, accessed May 27, 2014
  3. 1 2 Jurek, Thom. William Parker - Scrapbook: Review at AllMusic . Retrieved May 27, 2014.
  4. 1 2 Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD . The Penguin Guide to Jazz (8th ed.). London: Penguin. pp.  1031. ISBN   0141023279.
  5. AAJ Staff, All About Jazz Review, October 7, 2003
  6. Steinberg, A., JazzTimes Review, November 2003