Sunny Murray The Untouchable Factor - Charred Earth(1977)

Sunny Murray The Untouchable Factor - Charred Earth(1977)


Tracklist:
A1 Charred Earth
Written-By - Sunny Murray 12:00

A2 Seven Steps To Heaven
Written-By - Davis, Feldman 9:00

B1 Tree Tops
Written-By - Sunny Murray 6:00

B2 Happiness Tears
Written-By - Sunny Murray 6:00

B3 Peace
Written-By - H. Silver* 8:00

Credits

Bass - Bob Reid
Drums - Sunny Murray
Piano - Dave Burrell
Reeds - Byard Lancaster

Recorded January 1, 1977

Beautiful and lyrical soprano (sopranino?) sax by Byard Lancaster in title tune is very impressive.
Spiritual atomospher is all around the album.


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Sunny Murray - Big Chief (1969)

Sunny Murray - Big Chief (1969)

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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.

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.

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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.


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Albert Ayler - Spiritual Unity

ALBERT AYLER - Spiritual Unity (ESP, 1964)

Albert Ayler: tenor saxophone
Gary Peacock: bass
Sunny Murray: drums

01-Ghosts (First variation)
02-The Wizzard
03-Spirits
04-Ghosts (Second variation)

1964 proved to be a watershed year for Albert Ayler , who recorded enough material for ten albums, three for ESP alone. With drummer Sunny Murray  a lone constant, Ayler exchanged Henry Grimes  for Gary Peacock  on bass midyear, briefly adding Don Cherry  for some of the most memorable excursions he would commit to tape, including the expanded group that scorched through New York Eye and Ear Control. Almost a month to the day after capturing the Ayler/Peacock/Murray trio live at the Cellar Cafe in New York, ESP recorded them performing nearly the same program in the studio as Spiritual Unity. As part of ESP owner Bernard Stollman's better-late-than-never remaster/reissue series, Spiritual Unity still weighs in at under thirty minutes with no bonus tracks. But the four original tracks pack more power and punch 41 years after the fact than most dreck-filled full length releases. In glorious mono (on the opening track; the rest are stereo), Ayler invents "ancient to the future with his unmatched mixture of old time spiritual theme snippets played with maudlin vibrato launching into unfathomable dimensions of sound. The shivering shriek and wavering wail return with a freshness that knows no expiration date.
The first of two versions of "Ghosts barely states the theme before the fun begins. Murray steams the cymbals as Ayler finds every manner of variation, fingers working the keys as primal nerve impulse. When he rests, Peacock briefly runs the baton over unexpected intervals. It's amazing to reflect that he came into his tenure with Ayler after his historic pensive, empathic association with Bill Evans, a polar opposite if ever there was one. Ayler returns for a more complete stating of the theme. The second "Ghosts has Peacock more aggressive in the opening, and during nearly double the length of the first version, Ayler wastes no time reaching for the stars. There must have been a good deal of body English involved as he moved up and back off the mic, blowing the brass off the sax.
The enigmatic theme of "The Wizard sets a roiling improv in motion where the ideal of three playing as one finds realization. Ayler breaks out with jagged-edged multiphonics, taking the tenor on a runaway train ride few would dare attempt. Spirits slows it down as Ayler sings, slides, and slurs the sax through the land of strange beauty that only he inhabited, though others visited. Murray and Peacock relax, working off space, silence, and the beauty of freedom.
The Ayler ESP recordings remain some of the most breathtakingly remarkable music ever captured: original, alien, and as seductively familiar as one's own pulse. (from AAJ)
 
HERE

David Murray Quartet - A Sanctuary Within

David Murray: tenor saxophone & bass clarinet
Tony Overwater: bass
Kahil El'Zabar: percussion
Sunny Murray: drums

1991 A SANCTUARY WITHIN

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

Clifford Thornton - Ketchaoua

Clifford Thornton: percussion, trombone, trumpet, cornet, conga, percussion
Archie Shepp: soprano saxophone
Arthur Jones: alto saxophone
Grachan Moncur III: trombone
Dave Burrell: piano, bells
Earl Freeman: bass, percussion, conga, gong
Beb Guerin: bass
Sunny Muray: drums
Claude Delcloo: drums

Review

by Brandon Burke

Clifford Thornton's only Actuel date as a leader is, like many of the others in this BYG series, an all-star blowing session highly indicative of the times. For some, it will be difficult to tell whether taking credit for composing these pieces is a lost cause. This is some very free music and, save for a handful of scored passages, almost wholly improvised. A number of the scene's top players make appearances here in different groups. On the large ensemble pieces Thornton is joined by Grachan Moncur III, Archie Shepp (on soprano sax), Arthur Jones, Dave Burrell, Beb Guerin, Earl Freeman, and Sunny Murray. Otherwise, "Brotherhood," a piece for quintet, is performed by Thornton, Jones, Guerin, Freeman, and this time, drummer Claude Delcloo, while on "Speak With Your Echo" only the two bassists (Guerin and Freeman) accompany Thornton's cornet. This piece in particular is especially enjoyable and reminiscent perhaps of Arthur Jones' fantastic ballad, "Brother B," from his own Actuel LP, Scorpio. At times the ensemble pieces sound like a Pan-African Morton Feldman, and at others, hazy, psychedelic post bop. Fans of brooding and contemplative improvised music will find a great deal to enjoy here. In fact, many would argue that this is the best LP under Thornton's leadership.

1969 KETCHAOUA