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Artist:	SILVA/WILLIAM PARKER, ALAN
Title:	A Hero's Welcome: Pieces For Rare Occasions
Label:	EREMITE
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	MTE 017CD

"Alan Silva's playing & live composition have been a highlight of the avant garde's living history for the past 35+ years. From his work with Sun Ra's Arkestra, through extended relationships with Bill Dixon, Cecil Taylor, & Albert Ayler, on into the Celestial Communications Orchestra & the Frank Wright Center of the World Band, Silva has been one of the music's most consistently valuable thinkers. A child of Alan Silva's other-worldly strategies for double bass, William Parker is the premier bassist of the post-Vietnam era. A Hero's Welcome is a spontaneous composition dedicated to the spiritual essence of Sun Ra & to all the great string players of the 20th Century. It was recorded at the first duo performance Silva & Parker undertook, & is the first installment of the Eremite Silva & Parker ongoing strings duo project, which among other things will entail at least one duo (or extended duo) recording by Silva & Parker for Eremite per year from now until the big O. Two full improvising orchestras couldn't mix it up more completely."

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