Big Ears Festival, 2023

Yarn / Wire performing Lucier / McIntosh and Mochizuki

Sam Gendel / Sam Wilkes

Phill Niblock

Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet

Rob Mazurek / Exploding Star Orchestra

David Byrne’s Reasons to Be Cheerful

Wendy Eisenberg

Mary Halvorson Amaryllis

Kali Malone’s Living Torch

The Meridian Brothers

Tyshawn Sorey Trio with Bill Frisell & Joe Lovano

Pino Palladino & Blake Mills

Irreversible Entanglements

Tarbaby with David Murray

Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba

Catherine Lamb performed by Jack Quartet

William Parker Mayan Space Station

Vinicius Cantuaria

James ‘Blood’ Ulmer

Xylouris White

John Zorn’s Gnostic Trio

Theon Cross

Éliane Radigue performed by Nate Wooley

Kate NV

Oneohtrix Point Never

Oblique Portrait: William Parker

Legendary bassist William Parker is the common denominator for this mix that spans 40+ years and includes the biggest names of the jazz avant garde.

Ensemble Muntu: Flight
Billy Bang: Summer Night
William Parker & Hamid Drake: Faces
Wayne Horvitz: Psalm
Frank Lowe: In Trane's Name
William Parker / Raining on the Moon: James Baldwin to the Rescue
Cecil Taylor: Calling it the 8th
Matthew Shipp String Trio: Whole Movement
Bill Dixon: Brothers
Free Zen Society: Majestical
David S. Ware Quartet: Infi-Rhythms
Derek Bailey / John Zorn / William Parker: Noon Harras
Toxic: This Is Beautiful Because We Are Beautiful People
Charles Gayle: Touchin' on Trane
Brötzmann / Parker / Drake: Shake-a-Tear
DJ Spooky: Absentia, Absentia
Yo la Tengo: Let's Be Still
William Parker / In Order to Survive: The Square Sun
Anthony Braxton / William Parker / Milford Graves: Third Meeting
William Parker: Crumbling in the Shadows Is Fraulein Miller's Stale Cake