Mike Parker

For Those Who Are, Still is a magnificent 3CD box set of new and previously unissued music from world-renowned composer-bassist William Parker. This set is comprised of four distinctly compelling long-form works – Parker’s first composition written for symphony orchestra performance; a commissioned piece for a standing new music ensemble; a “chamber-jazz” song series for voice / soprano sax / piano / bass; a composition created specifically for a particularly diverse Parker assemblage in Universal Tonality mode. The four works are linked by a focus on and greater adherence to William Parker’s written compositions; the depth and breadth of the resultant performances is astonishing. As ever in his four+ decades of profound output, improvisation of a very high order is a natural part and parcel of these multifarious expositions.

Josuah Parker, ist der Butler, des Rechtsanwaltes Mike Rander. Mit seinem Chef schlittert der Hobbydetektiv von einem aufregenden Fall in den anderen. Gemeinsam macht das Duo, Parker und Rander, die Chicagoer Unterwelt unsicher… wie auch im vorliegenden Fall, wo sich alles um die "Weiße Göttin" dreht… Sie möchten erfahren wer oder was die weiße Göttin ist und in welcher Beziehung Butler Parker zu ihr steht? Und weshalb Mike Rander und sein Butler Opfer von tödlichen Anschlägen werden und wer hinter dieses Mordkomplott steckt? Neugierig? Dann tauchen Sie ein in die kriminalistische Welt von Butler Parker und lassen Sie sich überraschen.

Get Digital with Mike DeVries and Jamie Parker is a two-disc instructional DVD full of tips, tricks, and techniques to help tattoo artists to utilize Adobe Photoshop and learn how its tools can enhance creativity and imagination. Beginning with familiarization of most of the tools used in Adobe Photoshop CS3, the DVD explains what most tools are ideal for, covering shortcuts, saving options, and file organization. Subjects such as: the importance of the dodge and burn tools, loading new brushes and fonts, colorization of black and grey photos, adding light sources to photos for striking enhancements , and changing backgrounds are explained.

'A moving, multilayered memoir… extraordinary, ambitious… its scope is immense. A book that is deep in riches.' Simon Callow, Guardian

New York-based alto saxophonist Mike DiRubbo is one of the most recognizable and formidable forces in the jazz world today. A former student of the late great jazz icon Jackie McLean and a fixture in the Big Apple's vibrant jazz scene, DiRubbo is no novice. He has a substantial discography, and experience performing with some of the best players in the world. The adventurous Threshold is the artist's eighth album as leader where—with the exception of Charlie Parker's Bebop classic "Bloomdido"—DiRubbo presents a landscape of fresh new original music, superbly interpreted by the latest incarnation of his swinging quintet.