Rick Parker/Li Daiguo

Rick Parker/Li Daiguo: Free World Music

by Karl Ackermann
July 31, 2016

Multi-instrumentalists Rick Parker, of Brooklyn, and China's Li Daiguo are practitioners of psychoacoustic science in an experimental duo format. Understanding the interaction of wave dissemination, physical experience and endless scientific studies is hardly necessary; as listeners we still hear, in music, what we want to hear. On Free World Music, the pair offer a dizzying array of themes, often sounding more like an ensemble than a twosome. Parker is the bona fide jazz presence here, a composer/trombonist ...