The Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra

Led by free jazz bassist William Parker, the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra is an intermittently active New York-based unit that plays a kind of almost completely improvised big-band music. The instrumentation varies somewhat; on its first recording, a total of eight saxophonists, three trumpets, three trombones, a violinist, cellist, three drummers, and two bassists took part, although not all played on every cut. On other occasions, the band has been a bit smaller. Seemingly modeled on Cecil Taylor's experiments in large ensemble performance (Parker was a Taylor sidema...