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Musician

Born William Byard Lancaster, 6 August 1942, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, multi-instrumentalist Lancaster (alto, tenor and soprano saxophones, flutes, clarinets, piano) was, with Sonny Sharrock, Dave Burrell and Eric Gravatt, part of a second generation of African-American "new jazz" players who viewed themselves as John Coltrane's spiritual heirs or "John's Children" as the title of an early Lancaster band song (written by Sharrock) insisted, committed to the same "healing" energies inherent in the jubilant scream. Lancaster identified with secular screams, hence the motto on his business cards: From A Love Supreme To The Sex Machine And All In Between

Album

The Call

By Henry Grimes

Label: Thingamajig
Released: 2026
Track listing: Fish Story; For Django; Walk On; Saturday Nite; What Th'; The Call; Son Of Alfalfa; Ia; Geno; Backdrop For Urban Revolution.

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Benji Porecki, Evening Sky, Finely Tuned Elephant, Jenny Klukken

by Cheryl K.
March 30, 2026

During this week's two-hour program of jazz and improvised music, cuts from new releases by keyboardist Benjie Porecki; multi--instrumentalist/composer Brian Eaton; the ensemble Evening Sky; guitarist Gilad Barakan; reed player Martin Archer and vocalist Claire McAllister; electronic musician/conceptualist Joseph Branciforte and Fender Rhodes artist Jozef Dumoulin; the quartet Finely Tuned Elephant; and marimba player Jenny Klukken.

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Sound of Germantown: Byard Lancaster, Monnette Sudler, Marshall Allen

by David Brown
January 14, 2025

This week, let's keep it in the neighborhood with a program featuring artists who have current or historical connections to the Germantown neighborhood, home of G-Town Radio in Philadelphia. Recordings featured include bagpiper/saxophonist Rufus Harley, guitarist Monnette Sudler, saxophonist/flutist Byard Lancaster, saxophonist/poet Elliott Levin, alto saxophonist/EVI Marshall Allen, band leader/pianist Sun Ra, vibraphonist Khan Jamal, song/guitar ...

Album

With Archie Shepp, 7-Tette & Orchestra Revisited

By Bill Dixon

Label: Ezz-thetics
Released: 2023
Track listing: Trio; Quartet; Winter Song 1964; The 12th December; Metamorphosis 1962-1966; Nightfall Pieces I; Voices; Nightfall Pieces II.

Article: History of Jazz

James "Plunky" Branch: Afrobeat, Funk e Spiritual Jazz

by Angelo Leonardi
November 6, 2023

Da circa un decennio il jazz statunitense e britannico vede l'emergere di giovani protagonisti che spezzano i confini tra i generi “colti" e popolari, operando una sintesi sfaccettata tra le molte espressioni della black music. Un torrente tumultuoso che viene alimentato dalle spinte politico-identitarie della comunità afroamericana (la rinascita dell'Afrofuturismo, il movimento Black Lives Matter), che ...

Article: Year in Review

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden Of Jazzy Delights 2022

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 29, 2022

The depth and range of the music that jazz players have put on record in 2022 are so big that summarizing this “year in jazz" by selecting only ten albums feels akin to taking the photo of a breath-taking landscape with an ultra-low resolution camera... Ten years from now, how is one supposed to understand how ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Stratusphunk: From the Airliner Lounge to Outer Space

by David Brown
August 9, 2022

This week, birthday tributes to Abby Lincoln and Byard Lancaster, solo piano works from Lucian Ban, Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou and Dr. Billy Taylor, Ellington arranges Monk, early works from George Russell and a swingin' Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Quartet live at the Airliner Lounge, and more! Playlist Thelonious Monk “Esistrophy (Theme)" from Live at the It ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

A Few Of My Favorite 2022 Jazz Things (So Far) - Part 2

by Ludovico Granvassu
July 23, 2022

Here are some of the tunes that we have loved the most during these first six months of the year. Surely there are tens more of equal value, but this is not a scientific exercise... rather, since jazz is all about living in the moment, we made our selections based on the strong, and lasting, impression ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Anna Butterss, Daniel Villarreal, Mark de Clive Lowe, Byard Lancaster & More New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
June 21, 2022

Amazing debut albums by Daniel Villarreal and Anna Butterss, reissues or unearthed gems from masters of the past like Sun Ra or Byard Lancaster, homages to Pharoah Sanders, the fascinating sonic explorations of Flock and JOYFULTALK are just some of our favorite things... and that's why we feature them in this week's show. We hope you ...