| Fractured Dimensions | |
| Type: | live |
| Artist: | William Parker |
| Cover: | Fractured_Dimensions_Cover.jpeg |
| Released: | 2003 |
| Recorded: | November 7, 1999 |
| Venue: | Podewil, Berlin |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 78:03 |
| Label: | FMP |
| Producer: | Jost Gebers |
| Chronology: | William Parker |
| Prev Title: | Posium Pendasem |
| Prev Year: | 1998 |
| Next Title: | Mayor of Punkville |
| Next Year: | 1999 |
Fractured Dimensions is an album by American jazz double bassist William Parker, which was recorded live during the Berlin Total Music Meeting in 1999 and released on the German FMP label in 2003.
The band originally billed to play was the free jazz quartet Other Dimensions In Music, but Rashid Bakr's unavailability led to the fortuitous last-minute substitution of Alan Silva.[1]
In his review for AllMusic, François Couture states "Digital synthesizers are not often heard in free improvisation contexts. They sound a bit cold and intrusive. But Silva's playing is so colorful that one quickly leaves his apprehensions behind."
The Penguin Guide to Jazz says that "the absence of percussion, unusual sound of a digital synth and occasional presence of two trumpeters give the music an unusual sonority."[2]
All compositions by Parker, Campbell, Carter & Silva