Sunny Murray - Hommage To Africa (1970)

Sunny Murray - Hommage To Africa (1970)
Label:BYG Records

Released:1970

Tracklist
A1 Suns Of Africa - Part 1 15:15
A2 Suns Of Africa - Part 1 2:40
B1 R.I.P. 10:35
B2 Unity 6:55

Personnel:
Bass - Alan Silva
Composed By - Murray
Cornet - Clifford Thornton
Drums - Sunny Murray
Gong, Tambourine, Bells - Arthur Jones (tracks: A1, A2)
Piano - Dave Burrell
Saxophone [Alto], Flute - Roscoe Mitchell
Saxophone [Tenor] - Archie Shepp (tracks: A1, A2)
Saxophone [Tenor], Flute - Kenneth Terroade
Trombone - Grachan Moncur III
Trumpet, Flugelhorn - Lester Bowie (tracks: A1, A2)
Tympani, Bells - Earl Freeman (tracks: A1, A2)
Voice, Bells - Jeanne Lee (tracks: A1, A2)
Xylophone [Belafon], Bells - Malachi Favors (tracks: A1, A2)

Composed By - Sunny Murray

Engineer - Claude Jauvert
Producer - Jean Georgakarakos, Jean-Luc Young

Recorded August 15, 1969, Paris.

http://www.multiupload.com/1K6RMOF0OL

Sunny Murray - Big Chief (1969)

Sunny Murray - Big Chief (1969)


Track:
A1 Angels And Devils
Written-By J. Coursil / Sunny Murray 5:14
A2 Hilarious Paris 5:30
A3 Now We Know 7:44
B1 Angel Son 7:30
B2 Straight Ahead
Written-By Le Roy Bibbs/ Sunny Murray 9:30
B3 This Nearly Was Mine
Arranged By Sunny Murray
Written By Rodgers 5:12

Personnel:
Sunny Murray - Drums, Percussion, Written-By, Reissue Producer
Beb Guerin - Bass
Becky Friend - Flute
Francois Tusques - Piano
Ronnie Beer - Alto sax
Kenneth Terroade - Tenor sax
Bernard Vitet - Trumpet
Alan Silva - Violin
H. Le Roy King - Voice (Poem)

Michel Le Bris - Reissue producer
Remastered - Michael King
Eric Schou - Design (Sleeve remix)

Recorded at Studio E.T.A., rue de l'Abbe-Gregoire, Paris.

This is Sunny Murray's leader album during Paris days at the end of 1960s.
Not only strong emotional power, also lylical tranguility makes this album different from uninteresting
and ordinal noisy free jazz.


http://www.multiupload.com/6MDOOMM748

Alan Silva - Skillfullness

ALAN SILVA - Skillfullness (ESP, 1969)

Alan Silva: violin, cello, piano
Becky Friend: flute, vocals
Mike Ephron: piano, organ
Dave Burrell: piano
Karl Berger: vibraphone
Lawrence Cook: cymbals, rattle, percussion

01-Skillfullness
02-Solestrial

Listening to Alan Silva is always a strong and strange experience. Skillfullness is one of the weirdest Silva's recordings. This one is rather powerfull and in a constant unstable equilibrium: it's always under tension. There are a lot of unusual instruments for this time (flute, violin), a lot of different energies. Rythmic patterns are rather absent and all keys are utterly unmaked. A cosmic and solar music somewhere between Sun (Ra) and Cecil Taylor.

HERE
dedicated to Flo.

ALAN SILVA - SEASONS

Alan Silva and Celestrial Communication Orchestra, The - Seasons (BYG - 1970)

1. Seasons
2. Seasons

Bass, Violon [Electric], Sarangi [Electric] - Alan Silva
Cello - Kent Carter
Cello, Celeste - Irene Aebi
Drums, Percussion - Famoudou Don Moye
Drums, Percussion, Bronte - Jerome Cooper
Piano - Dave Burrell , Joachim Kühn
Producer - Jean Georgakarakos , Jean-Luc Young
Saxophone [Alto], Clarinet - Michel Portal
Saxophone [Alto], Flute - Robin Kenyatta
Saxophone [Soprano] - Steve Lacy
Saxophone [Tenor], Saxophone [Soprano], Flute - Ronnie Beer
Saxophone, Flute, Bassoon - Joseph Jarman
Saxophone, Flute, Oboe - Roscoe Mitchell
Timpani, Percussion - Oliver Johnson
Trumpet - Alan Shorter
Trumpet, Flugelhorn - Lester Bowie
Trumpet, French Horn - Bernard Vitet
Viola [Electric] - Jouk Minor
Violin [Electric] - Dieter Gewissler

This is very outstaindingly gigantic works in its lengthy and numbers of players in free jazz orchestral works. Non-stop over 2 hours and 20 minutes long and participants are as the above. His previous album of Celestrial communication orchestra "Luna Surface" (same in BYG label) is chaotic music. Drastic collective improvisation continues in 30 and several minutes. But this Seasons is different. Parts of Corrective imporvisation, arranged, solos are allocated in calculated manner. Sounds vary in stream of music. Whole work arises unique imagination in listners.

http://rapidshare.com/files/443237801/AS-seasons_mp3.rar

Albert Ayler - Love Cry

ALBERT AYLER - Love Cry (Impulse!, 1968)

Albert Ayler: alto & tenor saxophones, vocals
Donald Ayler: trumpet
Call Cobbs: electric harpsichord
Alan Silva: bass
Milford Graves: drums

1. Love Cry
2. Ghosts
3. Omega
4. Dancing Flower
5. Bells
6. Love Flower
7. Love Cry?
8. Zion Hill (alternate take)
9. Universal Indians (alternate take)
10. Zion Hill
11. Universal Indians

From the time he was signed to Impulse in 1966, it was assumed that Albert Ayler's releases on that label would be motivated by an attempt at commercialism. While the music was toned down from his earlier ESP recordings, by no means did Ayler ever make commercial records. Much in the same way John Coltrane's later-period Impulse releases weren't commercial, Ayler simply took advantage of a larger record company's distribution, trying to expose the music to more people. Ayler's uncompromising musical freedom mixed with his catchy combination of nursery rhythms and brass band marches remained prominent on Love Cry. The interplay between the Ayler brothers also remained fiery as younger sibling Donald is heard playing trumpet for the last time on a recording with his brother. Donald was fired from the band (at the suggestion of Impulse) and, unfortunately, was committed to a mental institution for a short stay after these sessions were made. The rhythm section of Alan Silva on bass and Milford Graves on drums continually instigates and propels this music into furious militaristic march territory. Unhappily, the four tracks in which Call Cobbs is featured on harpsichord tend to drag the music down; it's unfortunate his gospel-inspired piano or organ playing couldn't have been utilized instead. The CD reissue contains alternate takes of "Zion Hill" and "Universal Indians." (from AMG)

HERE

Cecil Taylor - Live in Stuttgart, 1966-10-16

CECIL TAYLOR - Live in Stuttgart 1966 (Radio Broadcast)

Cecil Taylor: piano
Jimmy Lyons: alto saxophone
Alan Silva: bass
Andrew Cyrille: drums

1. Second Amplitude - First Amplitude
2. Conquistador

HERE

Thanks to the original uploader

Archie Shepp - Live at the Pan-African Festival

Archie Shepp: tenor saxophone
Clifford Thornton: cornet
Grachan Moncur III: trombone
Dave Burrell: piano
Alan Silva: bass
Sunny Murray: drums
plus algerian & tuareg musicians

Review

by Bob Rusch, Cadence

Archie Shepp probably led more BYG recordings than anyone else. The first of his BYG's has been reissued as Live At The Pan African Festival. The Pan African Festival in Algiers served as a great realization of art and culture for many of the participants and on this recording we heard Shepp, Clifford Thornton, and Grachan Moncur III in an impromptu jam ("Brotherhood at Ketcha") with various native Algerian percussionists and "horn" men...Any study of Shepp makes listening to all of his BYG recordings essential.

1969 LIVE AT THE PAN-AFRICAN FESTIVAL

Bobby Few - More or Less Few

Bobby Few: piano, melodica, voice
Alan Silva: bass
Mohamed Ali: drums

1973 MORE OR LESS

Alan Silva & Oluyemi Thomas - Transmissions

Alan Silva: double bass
Oluyemi Thomas: bass clarinet, c-melody saxophone, wooden flute, percussion

1999 TRANSMISSIONS
Review

Alan Silva - Inner Song

Alan Silva: bass, cello, voice
Sebastien Bernard: piano (on the last track)

1974 INNER SONG (LP)

Thanks to experimental etc blog for this great upload