CHRIS PARKER

"Reunion is the forthcoming fifth album by pianist and composer Chris Parker, to be released March 6, 2026 on Circle 9 Records in digital, CD, and vinyl formats.

 

Parker recorded the session on January 28, 2023 at Trading 8s Studios in Paramus, New Jersey, co-producing the project with trombonist and Circle 9 founder Doug Beavers. The album was engineered by Chris Sullit and mixed and mastered by Beavers at Circle 9 Studio in Jersey City.

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Across twelve original compositions written and arranged over more than four decades, Parker leads a septet featuring Beavers, alto and soprano saxophonist Alejandro Avilés, violinist Rob Thomas, baritone saxophonist and bass clarinetist Dave Riekenberg, acoustic and electric bassist Tony Marino, drummer Marko Marcinko and percussionist Luisito Quintero. Rooted in Parker’s lifelong identity as a composer, the arrangements expand music shaped across decades of performance into fully realized ensemble works animated by collective improvisation and the rhythmic language of jazz and Afro-Latin tradition."

-M. Enos