This double CD is now a classic.  Probably the finest documentation of Parker's IOTS aesthetic.  The group is no more, but the sound lives on.

"The substructure of all music that is beautiful on a profound level is vision (the act of seeing and hearing beyond what our eyes and ears can take in). Vision allows us to experience and live within that endless periphery called poetry. Vision is also the catalyst for human revolution. The response to the cry and the cry itself.

The music of 'In Order To Survive' is deeply rooted in the concept of vision. In this music I hear the history, the mystery and the now. All existing and vanishing at the same time.   Everything is kept together by the undertow of this luminous lyricism that is ever present." -- William Parker

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If you missed this cd, you might also enjoy listening to:

Compassion Seizes Bed-Stuy (In Order to Survive)

Wisdom of Uncertainty (Ware, Ibarra, Parker, Shipp)

Life Cycle (Dickey, Brown, Maneri, Shipp)

Jumping Off The Page (The Rob Brown Quartet)

One For Jazz (Frank Lowe-Billy Bang Quartet)

Pastoral Composure (Shipp, Campbell, Parker, Cleaver)

Time Is of the Essence (ODIM)

Revolt of the Negro Lawn Jockeys (Moondoc Quintet)

Radiance (Ibarra, Cooper-Moore, Burnham)