For Percy Heath

For Percy Heath is an album by bassist and composer William Parker's Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra, which was recorded in 2005 and released on the Canadian Victo label.[1] The album is a suite of compositions inspired by and dedicated to bassist Percy Heath, who died in 2005.

For Percy Heath
Live album by
William Parker & the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra
Released2006
RecordedMay 22, 2005
Victoriaville, Canada
GenreJazz
Length61:45
LabelLes Disques Victo
Victo CD 102
ProducerJoanne Vézina and Michel Levasseur
William Parker chronology
Sound Unity
(2004)		 For Percy Heath
(2006)		 Summer Snow
(2005)

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[3]

AllMusic awarded the album 4½ stars stating "Sounding in part like Coltrane's Ascension or Cherry's Symphony for Improvisers, Parker's For Percy Heath is a four-part suite actuated by the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra, here consisting of three trumpeters, three trombonists, three reed players, tuba, drums, and bass".[2]

Track listing

All compositions by William Parker

  1. "For Percy Heath: Part One" - 10:34
  2. "For Percy Heath: Part Two" - 9:49
  3. "For Percy Heath: Part Three" - 10:15
  4. "For Percy Heath: Part Four" - 17:40

Personnel

References
  1. Lopez, R., William Parker sessionography, accessed June 4, 2014
  2. arwulf, a., Allmusic listing, accessed June 4, 2014
  3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1129. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
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