Winter Sun Crying

Winter Sun Crying
Winter Sun Crying
Live album by William Parker & the ICI Ensemble
Released	January 12, 2011
Recorded	December 20, 2009 at Muffathalle, Munich
Genre	Jazz
Length	62:49
Label	NEOS Jazz; NEOS 41008
William Parker chronology

Winter Sun Crying is a live album by American jazz bassist William Parker with the German ICI Ensemble which was recorded as part of their Composer in Dialogue series in 2009 and released on the NEOS Jazz label.^[1]^[2]

Reception[edit]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[3]

In his review for AllMusic, arwulf arwulf states "Winter Sun Crying may be enjoyed among the freest of William Parker's many imaginatively conceived and fully liberated recordings".^[3]

Track listing[edit]

All compositions by William Parker & the ICI Ensemble

"Bells" - 8:10
"Train" - 2:59
"Winter Sun Crying" - 4:24
"Earth" - 3:12
"Moon" - 5:04
"Orphans" - 4:37
"Explosion" - 2:48
"Tears" - 3:03
"Hope" - 2:36
"Sky" - 3:14
"Grandmother" - 2:12
"Circle" - 4:00
"Hello" - 3:02
"Revolution" - 6:56
"Let's Change The World" - 6:39

Personnel[edit]

William Parker - bass, piccolo trumpet, shakuhachi, double reeds
David Jäger - soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
Roger Jannotta - alto saxophone, piccolo, flute, clarinet
Markus Heinze - baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone
Christofer Varner - trombone, sampler
Johanna Varner - cello
Martin Wolfrum - piano, keyboard
Gunnar Geisse - laptop, laptop guitar
Georg Janker - double bass, G2
Sunk Pöschl - drums

References[edit]

^ Lopez, R., William Parker discography, accessed September 18, 2014
^ NEOS Music catalog, accessed September 18, 2014
^ ^a ^b arwulf, arwulf. William Parker & the ICI Ensemble - Winter Sun Crying: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved September 18, 2014.

[1] Lopez, R., William Parker discography, accessed September 18, 2014

[2] NEOS Music catalog, accessed September 18, 2014

[Allmusic-3] rwulf, arwulf. William Parker & the ICI Ensemble - Winter Sun Crying: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved September 18, 2014.

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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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