Double Sunrise Over Neptune

Double Sunrise Over Neptune is a live album by American jazz musician and composer William Parker, which was recorded in 2007 and originally released on the AUM Fidelity label.[1][2] Though best known as a bassist, Parker on this album plays various ethnic double reed instruments and the African stringed instrument doussn'gouni.

Double Sunrise Over Neptune
Live album by
William Parker & The Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra
Released2008
RecordedJune 20, 2007
VenueVision Festival, Angel Orensanz Foundation, New York City
GenreJazz, free jazz
Length65:48
LabelAUM Fidelity
AUM 047
ProducerWilliam Parker
William Parker chronology
Alphaville Suite
(2007)
Double Sunrise Over Neptune
(2008)
Petit Oiseau
(2007)

Reception

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Professional ratings
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AllMusic     [3]

In his review for AllMusic, Michael G. Nastos describes the album as perhaps the best of Parker's career, writing: "One who listens closely, and more than once, will reap great rewards from this, another excellent document in the growing and substantive discography of the consistently forward thinking Parker".[3]

The All About Jazz review noted "One of Parker's most fully realized large ensemble recordings, Double Sunrise Over Neptune is cosmic groove music with a global flair—a seamless merger of Eastern and Western traditions conveyed with passionate conviction".[4] The JazzTimes review by Brent Burton commented "this groovy large ensemble recording acknowledges that a little freedom goes a long way. The occasional explosion of brass-and-string squall is more or less leavened by a cool-blue pulse"[5]

Track listing

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All compositions by William Parker

  1. "Morning Mantra" – 15:08
  2. "Lights of Lake George" – 27:24
  3. "O'Neal's Bridge" – 0:37
  4. "Neptune's Mirror" – 22:39

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ Lopez, R., William Parker discography, accessed May 27, 2014
  2. ^ AUM Fidelity catalog Archived December 21, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, accessed May 27, 2014
  3. ^ a b Nastos, Michael G.. William Parker – Double Sunrise Over Neptune: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved May 27, 2014.
  4. ^ Collins, T., All About Jazz Review, August 19, 2008
  5. ^ Burton, B., JazzTimes review, JazzTimes, November 2008