Raincoat in the River

Raincoat in the River
Raincoat in the River
Live album by William Parker & the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra
Released	2002
Recorded	February 23, 2001
Venue	ICA Theater, Boston, MA
Genre	Jazz
Length	59:18
Label	Eremite; MTE-36
Producer	Michael Ehlers
William Parker chronology

Raincoat in the River is a live album by bassist and composer William Parker's Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra, which was recorded in Boston in 2001 and released on the Eremite label.^[1]^[2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[4]

The AllMusic awarded the album 3½ stars.^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by William Parker

"Five Rivers into One Teardrop I: Meditation for Two Voices" – 9:47
"Five Rivers into One Teardrop II: Mountain/Maintain" – 10:00
"Five Rivers into One Teardrop III: Anast Crossing the Lake of Light" – 9:52
"Five Rivers into One Teardrop IV: Raincoat in the River" – 19:41
"Five Rivers into One Teardrop V: Painter's Celebration" – 9:58

Personnel

William Parker – bass, marimba, shakuhachi, bombard
Roy Campbell, Jr. – trumpet, flugelhorn
Lewis Barnes, Richard Rodriguez – trumpet
Masahiko Kono, Alex Lodico, Steve Swell – trombone
Darryl Foster – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
Ori Kaplan, Rob Brown – alto saxophone
Charles Waters – alto saxophone, clarinet
Dave Sewelson – baritone saxophone
Dave Hofstra – tuba
Leena Conquest – vocals
Shia-Shu Yu – cello
Andrew Barker, Guillermo E. Brown – drums

References

^ Lopez, R., William Parker sessionography, accessed June 4, 2014
^ Eremite catalog, accessed June 4, 2014
^ ^a ^b Allmusic listing, accessed June 4, 2014
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1130. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

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

[2] Eremite catalog, accessed June 4, 2014

[Allmusic-3] Allmusic listing, accessed June 4, 2014

[Penguin-4] Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1130. 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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