Mass for the Healing of the World

Mass for the Healing of the World
Mass for the Healing of the World
Live album by William Parker & the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra
Released	August 31, 2003
Recorded	May 31, 1998; Teatro Nuovo in Verona, Italy
Genre	Jazz
Label	Black Saint; 120179-2
Producer	William Parker
William Parker chronology

Mass for the Healing of the World is a live album by American jazz double bassist William Parker & the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra which was recorded live in 1998 but not released on the Italian Black Saint label until 2003.^[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[2]

In his review for All About Jazz, Rex Butters states "One wonders how many recorded Little Huey performances languish in the can. This one documents a night six years ago that is both timeless and a time capsule. Like all Little Huey projects, all manner of musics emanate from the assembled musicians, all the musics tinted blue".^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by William Parker

Invocation – 0:30
"First Reading (Dawn Song)" – 13:22
"Hallelujah" – 8:46
"Mysticism" – 5:44
"Response (Muezzin's Call)" – 13:00
"Second Reading (Cathedral in the Mountains)" – 6:55
"Willows (Can You Give Me Back My Life)" – 8:36
"Cantos (Love God)" – 13:55

Personnel

William Parker – bass, pocket cornet
Roy Campbell, Jr., Lewis Barnes, Richard Rodriguez – trumpet
Alex Lodico, Masahiko Kono – trombone
Dave Hofstra – tuba
Assif Tsahar – tenor sax, bass clarinet
Darryl Foster – soprano sax, tenor saxophone
Rob Brown, Marco Eneidi – alto sax
Chris Jonas – soprano sax
Dave Sewelson – baritone sax
Cooper-Moore – piano
Susie Ibarra – drums, timpani
Aleta Heyes – vocals

References

^ Lopez, R., William Parker sessionography, accessed September 19, 2014
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1130. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
^ Butters, R., All About Jazz review, November 9, 2004

[1] Lopez, R., William Parker sessionography, accessed September 19, 2014

[Penguin-2] Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1130. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

[3] Butters, R., All About Jazz review, November 9, 2004

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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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