William Parker

• DIGIPACK EDITION

William Parker’s recording career began in 1973 on ESP-Disk’ (Frank Lowe’s Black Beings) and he returned to ESP in 2017 as a member of Mat Walerian’s group Toxic (This Is Beautiful Because We Are Beautiful People)

Now ESP present a new William Parker album in collaboration with his wife Patricia Nicholson. No Joke! is unapologetically political, facing down injustice and inequality and other “in”s with artistic integrity and “outside” music.

PERSONNEL:

• William Parker - (bass)
• Patricia Nicholson - (spoken word)
• James Brandon Lewis - (tenor sax)
• Devin Brahja Waldman - (alto sax)
• Melanie Dyer - (viola on tracks 1, 3, 5)
• Gerald Cleaver - (drums on tracks 1, 3, 5)
• Francesco Mela - (drums on tracks 2 & 4)

TRACKS:

• 01. Flare Up
• 02. Little Black Kid with the Swollen Stomach
• 03. Struggle
• 04. Wilted Light as Flower
• 05. No Joke