For Percy Heath

For Percy Heath
For Percy Heath
Live album by William Parker & the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra
Released	2006
Recorded	May 22, 2005; Victoriaville, Canada
Genre	Jazz
Length	61:45
Label	Les Disques Victo; Victo CD 102
Producer	Joanne Vézina and Michel Levasseur
William Parker chronology

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.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
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

"For Percy Heath: Part One" - 10:34
"For Percy Heath: Part Two" - 9:49
"For Percy Heath: Part Three" - 10:15
"For Percy Heath: Part Four" - 17:40

Personnel

William Parker - bass
Roy Campbell Jr., Lewis Barnes, Matt Lavelle - trumpet
Masahiko Kono, Alex Lodico, Steve Swell - trombone
Dave Hofstra - tuba
Sabir Mateen - tenor saxophone
Rob Brown - alto saxophone
Charles Waters - alto saxophone, clarinet
Ori Kaplan - alto saxophone
Darryl Foster - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
Dave Sewelson - baritone saxophone
Andrew Barker - drums

References

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

[1] Lopez, R., William Parker sessionography, accessed June 4, 2014

[Allmusic-2] rwulf, a., Allmusic listing, accessed June 4, 2014

[Penguin-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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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Studio albums	Through Acceptance of the Mystery Peace (1974-1979) Compassion Seizes Bed-Stuy (1995) Painter's Spring (2000) O'Neal's Porch (2000) Piercing the Veil (with Hamid Drake, 2000) Raining on the Moon (2001) Bob's Pink Cadillac (2001) Scrapbook (2002) Luc's Lantern (2004) Summer Snow (with Hamid Drake, 2005) Alphaville Suite (2007) Corn Meal Dance (2007) Petit Oiseau (2007) Beyond Quantum (with Anthony Braxton and Milford Graves, 2008) Uncle Joe's Spirit House (2010) Out of This World's Distortions (with Gerald Cleaver and Craig Taborn, 2010) The Gowanus Session (with Thollem McDonas and Nels Cline, 2012) 2 Blues for Cecil (with Andrew Cyrille and Enrico Rava, 2021)
Live albums	Melodic Art–Tet (with Charles Brackeen, Ahmed Abdullah, and Roger Blank, 1974) In Order to Survive (1993) Harras (with Derek Bailey and John Zorn, 1993) Sunrise in the Tone World (1995) The Peach Orchard (1997 & 1998) Posium Pendasem (1998) Mass for the Healing of the World (1998) 2 Days in April (with Fred Anderson, 1999) Mayor of Punkville (1999) Fractured Dimensions (1999) Raincoat in the River (2001) Eloping with the Sun (with Joe Morris and Hamid Drake, 2001) I Plan to Stay a Believer (2001, 2002, 2007, & 2008) Spontaneous (2002) Historic Music Past Tense Future (with Peter Brötzmann and Milford Graves, 2002) Sound Unity (2004) Requiem (2004) For Percy Heath (2005) Wood Flute Songs (2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, & 2012) Double Sunrise Over Neptune (2007) Farmers by Nature (with Gerald Cleaver and Craig Taborn, 2008) Tribute to Albert Ayler Live at the Dynamo (with Roy Campbell Jr., Joe McPhee, and Warren Smith, 2008) Winter Sun Crying (2009) Medicine Buddha (with Billy Bang, 2009) Love and Ghosts (with Gerald Cleaver and Craig Taborn, 2011) Essence of Ellington (2012)
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