Ars Nova Workshop presents The Ancients, the intergenerational coalition of Isaiah Collier, William Hooker, and William Parker, at Solar Myth on April 23-24, 2025.

Bringing together the meteoric saxophonist Isaiah Collier, legendary drummer William Hooker, and iconic bassist William Parker, The Ancients is a stellar trio formed by Parker to play concerts in conjunction with the Ars Nova-curated exhibition “Milford Graves: A Mind Body Deal” during its run at the Institute of Contemporary Art – Los Angeles. Now a working group, The Ancients brings the free jazz trio languages first explored by the Cecil Taylor Unit and Ornette Coleman’s Golden Circle Band (expanded upon in later eras by Sam Rivers’s trio and Parker’s collective trios with Charles Gayle/Graves and Peter Brötzmann/Hamid Drake) into their own unique and scintillating realms of expression.