Double Sunrise Over Neptune

Double Sunrise Over Neptune is a live album by American jazz musician and composer William Parker, which was recorded in 2007 and originally released on the AUM Fidelity label.^[1]^[2] Though best known as a bassist, Parker on this album plays various ethnic double reed instruments and the African stringed instrument doussn'gouni.

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Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[3]

In his review for AllMusic, Michael G. Nastos describes the album as perhaps the best of Parker's career, writing: "One who listens closely, and more than once, will reap great rewards from this, another excellent document in the growing and substantive discography of the consistently forward thinking Parker".^[3]

The All About Jazz review noted "One of Parker's most fully realized large ensemble recordings, Double Sunrise Over Neptune is cosmic groove music with a global flair—a seamless merger of Eastern and Western traditions conveyed with passionate conviction".^[4] The JazzTimes review by Brent Burton commented "this groovy large ensemble recording acknowledges that a little freedom goes a long way. The occasional explosion of brass-and-string squall is more or less leavened by a cool-blue pulse"^[5]

Track listing

All compositions by William Parker

"Morning Mantra" – 15:08
"Lights of Lake George" – 27:24
"O'Neal's Bridge" – 0:37
"Neptune's Mirror" – 22:39

Personnel

William Parker – double reeds, doussn'gouni, conductor
Sabir Mateen – tenor saxophone, clarinet
Rob Brown – alto saxophone
Bill Cole – double reeds
Dave Sewelson – baritone saxophone
Lewis Barnes – trumpet
Joe Morris – guitar, banjo
Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay – vocals
Jason Kao Hwang, Mazz Swift – violin
Jessica Pavone – viola
Shiau-Shu Yu – cello
Brahim Frigbane – oud
Shayna Dulberger – bass
Hamid Drake, Gerald Cleaver – drums

References

^ Lopez, R., William Parker discography, accessed May 27, 2014
^ AUM Fidelity catalog Archived December 21, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, accessed May 27, 2014
^ ^a ^b Nastos, Michael G.. William Parker – Double Sunrise Over Neptune: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved May 27, 2014.
^ Collins, T., All About Jazz Review, August 19, 2008
^ Burton, B., JazzTimes review, JazzTimes, November 2008

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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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