Kidd Jordan, William Parker, Joel Futterman and Hamid Drake pay tribute to Alvin Fielder
Joel Futterman, Kidd Jordan, Hamid Drake and William Parker performing their Alvin Fielder tribute. Photo by Michael Wilderman
The album was recorded live at Roulette during the Vision Festival 2019 in New York
A tribute to the late drummer Alvin Fielder will be released in June by Mahakala Music. Recorded live in 2019 at Brooklyn venue Roulette as part of New York's Vision Festival, the 45 minute session features pianist Joel Futterman, saxophonist Edward ‘Kidd’ Jordan, bassist William Parker and drummer Hamid Drake.
Futterman and Jordan were longtime friends and collaborators of Fielder, the American percussionist and founding member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), who died in January 2019.
A Tribute To Alvin Fielder, Live At Vision Festival XXIV is available for pre-order on Bandcamp, and you can listen to its introduction below.
In an online feature in memory of the drummer, Val Wilmer recalled her visit to Alvin Fielder’s hometown of Meridian, Mississippi, where he introduced her to leading Civil Rights activists for her project to photograph the lives of black women. Read it here.