Historic Music Past Tense Future is a double-LP live album by saxophonist Peter Brötzmann, drummer Milford Graves, and bassist William Parker.

"[4] In an article for The Quietus, Peter Margasak wrote: "While the individual voice of each player is palpable, the long-term bond of Parker and Brötzmann is forced to adjust to the drummer's singular attack, a tom-heavy polymetric whirlwind that digs deeper into time than most of us can reckon with.

"[6] Michael Rosenstein, writing for Dusted Magazine, called the album "an historic meeting," and stated: "While Brötzmann and Parker were playing regularly in various configurations by this point, the addition of Graves on drums incites the group to blazing heights.

One is reminded of the ardent propulsive energy that Graves brought to sessions with New York Art Quartet, Giuseppi Logan or Albert Ayler in the 1960s, and here, his choreographed polyrhythms recall those celebrated alliances while drawing on the depth of his sonic research over the subsequent decades.

"[7] In an article for Stereogum, Phil Freeman called the album "incredible," and wrote: "Both saxophonist and drummer are in thunderous form on the four side-long jams that make up this double LP... with Parker keeping a steady pulse in the middle.