''Requiem'' is a live album by bassist and composer William Parker's Bass Quartet featuring

Charles Gayle Charles Gayle (born February 28, 1939) is an American free jazz musician. Initially known as a saxophonist who came to prominence in the 1990s after decades of obscurity, Gayle also performs as pianist, bass clarinetist, bassist, and percussioni ...

, which was recorded at the

Vision Festival The Vision Festival is the world's premier festival of experimental music (typically free jazz/avant-garde jazz), art, film and dance, held annually in May/June on the Lower East Side of New York City from 1996 to 2011, in Brooklyn from 2012-2014, ...

in New York in 2004 and released on the Italian Splasc(H) label.

Reception

The

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review stated "The group's significance stemmed from the stylistic lineage evident from Grimes to Silva to Sirone to Parker and the addition of guest saxophonist Charles Gayle added a wrinkle, an uncommon hierarchy with a horn playing over four bassists".Henkin, A.
All About Jazz review
October 8, 2006

Track listing

''All compositions by William Parker'' # "Four Strings Inside a Tree" - 7:08 # "When All Is Sad" - 4:59 # "For Wilber Morris" - 4:48 # "The Little Smile" - 4:16 # "Sky Came" - 4:42 # "Heaven" - 4:16 # "Blues in the Hour Glass" - 8:10 # "Shores of Kansas" - 2:51 # "Spirits Inside the Bright House" - 9:08 # "Bermuda/Atlanta/Philadelphia/Bronx" - 11:34 # "The Last Song" - 3:46

Personnel

* William Parker,

Alan Silva Alan Silva (born Alan Lee da Silva; January 22, 1939 in Bermuda) is an American free jazz double bassist and keyboard player. Biography Silva was born a British subject to an Azorean/Portuguese mother, Irene da Silva, and a black Bermudian fat ...

Henry Grimes Henry Grimes (November 3, 1935 – April 15, 2020) was an American jazz double bassist and violinist. After more than a decade of activity and performance, notably as a leading bassist in free jazz, Grimes completely disappeared from the music s ...

Sirone Sirone ( Brianzöö: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Lecco in the Italian region Lombardy, located about northeast of Milan and about southwest of Lecco. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 2,270 and an area of .Al ...

- bass *

alto saxophone The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments. Saxophones were invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s and patented in 1846. The alto saxophone is pitched in E, smaller than the B tenor ...

References

{{reflist 2006 live albums William Parker (musician) live albums Albums recorded at the Vision Festival