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HAR-YOU Percussion Group: Sounds of Youth
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The 1964 events that led to the creation of the HAR-YOU project and the formation of the HAR-YOU Percussion Group out of the Harlem Youth Act were the stuff of legend: consider, for instance, the fortuitous meeting of extraordinarily talented bassist and Charles Mingus student Julien Euell, in his incarnation as Executive Director of the Arts ...
Sun Ra: Concert for the Comet Kohoutek
by Henry Smith
Composer, keyboardist and bandleader Sun Ra's intimate connection with the cosmos is well documented, but it was rare that Ra was given cause for real celestial celebration. That opportunity did come in 1973 however, when Ra and his orchestra played a show in celebration of Kohoutek, a comet whose sighting was billed as the “Comet of ...
James Zitro: Zitro
by AAJ Italy Staff
Si deve alla recente e gradita rentrée di Bernard Stollman, tornato in sella all'amata Esp, la ghiotta opportunità di poter ascoltare nuovamente, per di più in CD e rimasterizzate a dovere, alcune delle perle del catalogo dell'etichetta newyorchese. Tra le tante (da Alan Sondheim a Marzette Watts), un posto di riguardo spetta a Zitro, debutto da ...
Paul Bley: Barrage
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Music performed by Paul Bley is always an event of great import--no matter where or when, or in what context it is performed. But with Barrage this was the roaring '60s. Charlie Parker, who had set the world on fire, had left a meteoric legacy and in the after-burn came the smoldering avant-garde. Ornette Coleman may ...
Norman Howard / Joe Phillips: Burn Baby Burn
by Henry Smith
Having been virtually forgotten about since his appearance on Albert Ayler's Spirits (Debut, 1964), trumpeter Norman Howard nevertheless continued his career at least long enough to record two sessions for ESP in 1968. The results were shelved for a number of years before being released on cassette in miniature editions until now. That Burn Baby Burn ...
Don Cherry: Live at Cafe Montmartre 1966 Volume Two
by Henry Smith
Don Cherry Live at Cafe Montmartre 1966 Volume Two ESP Disk 2008 Trumpeter and multi-instrumentalist Don Cherry has long been a somewhat enigmatic figure. His well known beginnings with saxophonist Ornette Coleman soon gave way to Cherry's increasing interest in world music, where he would become an important ...
The Holy Modal Rounders: Live in 1965
by Henry Smith
From the Godz to the Fugs to Charles Manson himself, ESP Disk has always had a soft spot for the anarchic side of folk. The Holy Modal Rounders, while perhaps a little less infamous than their label cohorts, were just as wacky and accomplished in their take on the sound. Despite associations ...
Charlie Parker: Bird in Time 1940-1947: Selected Recordings and Rare Interviews
by Henry Smith
Charlie Parker is as mythic a figure as jazz has produced. His influence on the very form of the medium reconfigured the way music was approached in virtually all realms of practice. Yet, as Bird in Time 1940-1947: Selected Recordings and Rare Interviews reveals, his style did not arrive fully formed, but rather was worked toward ...
Don Cherry: Live at Cafe Montmartre 1966 - Vol. 2
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il periodo a cavallo tra il 1965 il 1966 è certamente un momento tra i più significativi nella carriera di Don Cherry. Il baricentro della sua vita si è spostato prepotentemente in Europa, ma alla vigilia di Natale del 1965 è nei classici studi di Rudy van Gelder che il trombettista registra il primo capolvaoro a ...
Steve Lacy: The Forest and the Zoo
by AAJ Italy Staff
The Forest and the Zoo è, tra i leggendari titoli pubblicati della ESP a cavallo del 1965, uno tra quelli maggiormente legati all’Italia, non solo per l’ovvio motivo che vi suonava il ventisettenne Enrico Rava, ma anche perché questa stessa formazione aveva avuto un prologo in un memorabile concerto al festival jazz di San Remo del ...
