Jazz Articles about Frank Wright

Frank Wright: The Complete ESP-Disk Recordings

by Clifford Allen
July 13, 2005

Frank Wright The Complete ESP-Disk Recordings ESP-Disk 2005

Despite the fact that avant-garde jazz has often met with the criticism that its tonalities and rhythms put it far outside the jazz (and by extension black music) tradition, it is quite true that many of the forerunners of free jazz found their voice in blues and R&B outfits. Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler, Dewey Redman, Noah Howard, Prince Lasha and Pharoah Sanders all came up in ...