J.D. Parran

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The Celestrial Communication Orchestra Luther Thomas Creative Ensemble Brötzmann Clarinet Project The Sound Visions Orchestra Julius Hemphill Big Band Marty Ehrlich Large Ensemble The Heliosonic Tone-tette Episteme

ex The Human Arts Ensemble, Company, New Winds

J. D. Parran is an American multi-woodwind player, educator, and composer specializing in jazz and free improvised music.

ALBUMS

Creative Trans-Informational Alliance - Dominique Eade, Brandon Evans (2), Roy Campbell, Jr.*, Susie Ibarra, Andre Vida, J.D. Parran, Chris Lightcap, Assif Tsahar

12 Celestial Cycles, Octet NYC 1995

2014, File, MP3, Thought Authority Audio Archive,

Avant-garde Jazz/Contemporary

Scott Robinson (2), Vinny Golia, JD Parran*, Warren Smith

Creative Music For 3 Bass Saxophones

2012, CD, Album, ScienSonic

2010, CD, Album, Mutable Music

JD Parran* & Mark Deutsch

Omegathorp: Living City

2005, CD, Album, Y'All Of New York

J.D. Parran & Spirit Stage

1997, CD, Album, Y'All Of New York,

Free Improvisation

Tom Hamilton (3) / J.D. Parran / Rich O'Donnell

Formal & Informal Music

1981, LP, Somnath Records

2020, 2xLP, Album, Honest Jon's Records,

Free Improvisation

The Heliosonic Tone-tette

Heliosonic Toneways Vol. 1

2017, CD, Album, ScienSonic,

Avant-garde Jazz/Free Improvisation

Marty Ehrlich Large Ensemble

A Trumpet In The Morning

2013, CD, Album, New World Records,

Contemporary Jazz

Digging It Harder From Afar

1995, CD, Album, Les Disques Victo,

Free Improvisation

1991, CD, Album, Sound Aspects Records, Sound Aspects Records

Avant-garde Jazz/Free Improvisation/Contemporary

Julius Hemphill Big Band

Julius Hemphill Big Band

Brötzmann Clarinet Project

Free Improvisation

The Human Arts Ensemble

Whisper Of Dharma

Free Improvisation

APPEARANCES +

Alexis Marcelo’s Nananom Xu

2024, 4xFile, FLAC, Infrequent Seams

Bombay Lunatic Asylum / Louise Landes Levi

Behind The Buddha’s Mask / Reading At Tangine, 11/20/2002

2023, Cass, Album, Ltd, C60, Counter Culture Chronicles

James Ilgenfritz Quintet

Museum Of Invisible Things

2023, Cass, Infrequent Seams

Amir ElSaffar*, Rivers Of Sound*

The Other Shore

2021, CD, Album, Outnote Records,

Avant-garde Jazz

Resonant Geographies

Amir ElSaffar*, Rivers Of Sound*

Avant-garde Jazz

Contemporary Jazz

For Those Who Are, Still

2015, 3xCD, Album, Ltd, Box, AUM Fidelity,

Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz/Contemporary

The Capitol Albums 1968-1977

Frank Lowe Quartet

2014, 2xLP, Dlx, Ltd, Num, Triple Point Records

Notes From The Underground

2014, CD, Album, BMOP/sound,

Kali Z. Fasteau*

2014, CD, Album, Flying Note,

2014, CD, Album, New World Records

Live At The Academy Of Music 1971 (The Rock Of Ages Concerts)

Don Byron New Gospel Quintet

Love, Peace, And Soul

2012, CD, Album, Savoy Jazz

Tiresian Symmetry

2012, CD, Album, Cuneiform Records

Anthony Braxton

The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note

2011, CD, Album, RE, RM + CD, Album, RE, RM + CD, Album,, Black Saint, Soul Note,

Free Jazz/Free Improvisation/Avant-garde Jazz

Go: Organic Orchestra, Adam Rudolph

Can You Imagine… The Sound Of A Dream

2011, CD, Meta Records (2),

Free Jazz/Big Band

Anthony Braxton

GTM (Knitting Factory) 1997 Vol. 2

Anthony Braxton

Orchestra (Paris) 1978

Free Jazz/Free Improvisation/Avant-garde Jazz

Pieces For Kohn / Formal & Informal Music

2010, 2xCD, Comp, Ltd, Kvist

John Lennon Signature Box

2010, Box Set, 9x CD, CD, CD,

Rock & Roll/Pop Rock

17 Musicians In Search Of A Sound: Darfur

2008, CD, Album, AUM Fidelity

Marianne Faithfull

Easy Come Easy Go

2008, 2x Vinyl,

Very Slow Disco Suite

2007, CD, Album, Canal Street Records

Anthony Braxton

Ninetet (Yoshi's) 1997 Vol.4

2007, 2xCD, Album, Leo Records

Paul Butterfield

Better Days + 3

2007, CD, Album, Ltd, Promo, RM, Pap, Bearsville

Anthony Braxton

Ninetet (Yoshi's) 1997 Vol. 3

2005, 2xCD, Album, Leo Records

The Band: A Musical History

2005, 5xCD, Advance, Promo, Capitol Records, EMI Music Catalogue Marketing,

A Musical History

2005, 5x CD, DVD, Box Set,

Alan Silva & The Celestrial Communication Orchestra

H.Con.Res.57 / Treasure Box

2003, 4xCD + Box, Ltd, Num, Eremite Records

Julius Hemphill

2003, CD, Album, Tzadik

Anthony Braxton

Ninetet (Yoshi's) 1997 Vol.2

2003, 2xCD, Album, Leo Records,

Avant-garde Jazz/Free Improvisation/Free Jazz

Live At The Tower Theatre October 7, 1980

Reading At Tangine

2002, 2xCDr, Album, Iraland,

Poetry/Hindustani

We Love New York - The Ultimate New York Keepsake

2002, CD, Comp, RCA Victor,

Anthony Braxton

Ninetet (Yoshi's) 1997 Vol. 1

Andrew Hill Sextet Plus 10

A Beautiful Day, Revisited

The Legend Continues

2001, 2xCD, Comp, Music Avenue,

Alan Silva & The Sound Visions Orchestra

Alan Silva & The Sound Visions Orchestra

2001, CD, Album, Eremite Records

Anthony Davis (2) - Michael John LaChiusa, Cynthia Aaronson-Davis, Avery Brooks (2), Thomas Young (3), Episteme, Rand Steiger

2001, 2xCD, Album, Koch International Classics, Koch International Classics,

Contemporary/Opera

You Are #6 : More Music For Six Musicians

Contemporary Jazz

Anthony Braxton

Four Compositions (Washington, D.C.) 1998

1999, 2xCD, Album, Braxton House,

Free Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz

Douglas Ewart And Inventions Clarinet Choir

Angles Of Entrance

1998, CD, Album, Aarawak

1998, CD, Album, Lovely Music, Ltd.,

1998, CD, Album, Concord Jazz

Anthony Braxton

Ensemble (New York) 1995

1997, CD, Album, Braxton House,

Free Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz

NYC Hip Hop Jazz

1997, CD, Bruton Music, Bruton Music

Shaking Ray Levis

1997, CD, Album, Shaking Ray Records,

Free Improvisation

Essential Music

Ten Years Of Essential Music

1997, CD, Album, Monroe Street Music,

Modern/Experimental

Anthony Braxton

Tentet (New York) 1996

1996, CD, Album, Braxton House,

Avant-garde Jazz

Set The Twilight Reeling

Axiom - Funkcronomicon

1995, Cass, Comp, Promo, Axiom,

Reggae/Conscious/P.Funk/Electric Blues/Funk Metal/Cut-up/DJ/Funk

Reggae/Conscious/P.Funk/Electric Blues/Funk Metal/Cut-up/DJ/Funk

Anthony Braxton

Creative Orchestra (Köln) 1978

Free Jazz/Big Band

James Jabbo Ware & The Me We & Them Orchestra

1994, CD, Soul Note

Anthony Braxton

4 (Ensemble) Compositions 1992

1993, CD, Album, Black Saint, Black Saint,

Free Jazz/Contemporary

5 Selections from Don Byron Plays The Music of Mickey Katz

1993, CD, Promo, Smplr, Elektra Nonesuch

1993, Cass, S/Sided, Promo, Not On Label

Thousand Year Dreaming

Don Byron Plays The Music Of Mickey Katz

Contemporary Jazz/Free Jazz/Klezmer

X, The Life And Times Of Malcolm X, An Opera In Three Acts

Contemporary Jazz/Contemporary

Marc Ribot & Rootless Cosmopolitans

Requiem For What's-His-Name

Free Jazz/Jazz-Rock

Full Spectrum Voice

1991, CD, Album, Lovely Music, Ltd.,

James Jabbo Ware & The Me We And Them Orchestra*

1991, CD, Album, Y'All Of New York

Unfolding Stone

1990, CD, Album, Sound Aspects Records

Dix Improvisations - Victoriaville 1989

1990, CD, Les Disques Victo,

Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation

Gramavision 10th Anniversary Sampler - Ten - Disk 2

Contemporary Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz/Contemporary

Live At The Knitting Factory · Volume Three

Free Jazz/Avantgarde/Experimental

The Clarinet Family

Trilogy Of Works For Eleven Instrumentalists

Return From Space (Wonder Nonfiction)

Contemporary Jazz/Soundtrack/Avant-garde Jazz

Variations In Dream-Time

1983, LP, Album, India Navigation,

Avant-garde Jazz

Douglas Ewart And Inventions / Clarinet Choir*

1983, Cass, Arawak (3)

Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation

Avant-garde Jazz/Post-Modern/Contemporary/Modal

Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium I

Antarctica: New Music From Antarctica, Volume 1

Abstract/Avantgarde/Experimental

Chicago Slow Dance

1981, LP, Album, Lovely Music, Ltd.

Paul Simon In Concert

Folk Rock/Concert Film

1980, LP, Album, Leo Records (2)

John Lennon & Yoko Ono

1980, Vinyl Los Angeles Pressing,

Rock Of Ages (Volume 1)

Rock Of Ages (Volume 2)

Folk Rock/Country Rock

Ain't Misbehavin' Original Broadway Cast*

Ain't Misbehavin': The New Fats Waller Musical Show

1978, 2x Vinyl Indianapolis Pressing, Gatefold,

Ragtime/Big Band/Musical

Luther Thomas Human Arts Ensemble* Directs The Saint Louis, Missouri Creative Ensemble*

Funky Donkey Vol. 1

Free Funk/Free Jazz/Jazz-Funk

Human Arts Ensemble*

Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz

Paul Butterfield

Rock Of Ages (The Band In Concert)

In Concert, An Excerpt From Rock Of Ages

John Lennon Signature Box

Academy Of Outtakes

John Lennon & Yoko Ono