Painters Winter, with multi-instrumentalist Daniel Carter and drummer Hamid Drake, is one of two simultaneously released trio outings by William Parker for AUM Fidelity. (The other is Mayan Space Station with electric guitarist Ava Mendoza and drummer Gerald Cleaver.) Both of Parker's sidemen have long been in his orbit. He and Carter have worked together since the 1970s in various settings, most notably in Other Dimensions in Music with Rashid Bakr and Roy Campbell. Drake has been one of the bassist's most frequent ...
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Painters Winter, with multi-instrumentalist Daniel Carter and drummer Hamid Drake, is one of two simultaneously released trio outings by William Parker for AUM Fidelity. (The other is Mayan Space Station with electric guitarist Ava Mendoza and drummer Gerald Cleaver.) Both of Parker's sidemen have long been in his orbit. He and Carter have worked together since the 1970s in various settings, most notably in Other Dimensions in Music with Rashid Bakr and Roy Campbell. Drake has been one of the bassist's most frequent drummers since 2000. That said, Painters Winter is a long-overdue sequel to this trio's June 2000 date, Painter's Spring. In addition to bass, Parker plays shakuhachi and trombonium (a compact version of the trombone with similar timbre); Carter plays trumpet, alto and tenor saxes, clarinet, and flute. The music offered here travels outside often but almost never with jagged edges. Parker composed these five long pieces especially for this date. Opener "Groove 77" finds Carter using a mute on his horn, hovering about the rhythm section's airy swing. The trumpeter evokes the spirit of Miles Davis' first quintet in delivering sweet modal melodies alongside open harmonics, as Parker strolls around him and dialogues in pulses with Drake, who underscores and illuminates with soft rim shots, skittering snare, and strident bass drum. After Parker's brief, beefy solo, Carter brings out his tenor and swings it home. On the title cut, Parker's trombonium engages interplay and dialogue with Carter's flute amid Drake's bumping, muted tom-toms. They explore an elusive succession of tones delivered in attractive call-and-response cadences, not unlike those heard on vintage Art Ensemble of Chicago recordings from the 1980s, albeit with a more focused and pronounced rhythmic approach. Parker's rich, woody bassline introduces "Happiness" before Carter's tenor enters with introspective lyricism atop Drake's whispering, snare-forward rhythms. That is, until Parker pulls out his bow for a frenetic yet oddly warm solo. His bandmates respond by picking up the tempo to push it over the line. "Painted Scarf" emerges as an abstract ballad inspired by Native American and Asian sources. The shakuhachi and clarinet entwine in open space as Drake punctuates their interaction sparsely with toms and snare. Finally, "A Curley Russell" (after bebop bassist Dillon "Curley" Russell, who died in 1986) offers deep, bluesy vanguard bop. There is glorious soloing from Carter on alto and tenor, and killer kit work from Drake. Parker anchors it all; he transfers the music from its source inspiration in bop, then presents it for outside exploration with glee. The band delivers deep, swinging, avant blues with surprise -- and centered, advanced technique. Painters Winter offers a canny display of group intuition and creativity with impeccable balance and taste, as one of the year's truly sublime trio outings. ~ Thom Jurek, Rovi
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