William Hooker & Billy Bang

Working on the periphery of jazz since 1974, drummer, composer, and poet William Hooker has been a formidable presence on the avant-jazz, noise rock, and free improvisation scenes in the United States and Europe. His kinetically charged, free-time playing style and oft-employed spoken word poetry have been combined with some of the finest improvising talent across generations and stylistic boundaries. His first album, 1975's double length ...Is Eternal Life, found him leading a band with fellow young lions David Murray and David S. Ware. 1993's Shamballa was a collection of du...