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Frank Wright: The Complete ESP-Disk Recordings
By Frank Wright
Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2005
Track listing: Disc 1: The Earth, Jerry, The Moon, Audio clip of interviews with the artist and Bernard Stollman
Disc 2: The Lady, Train Stop, No End, Fire of Spirits, Your Prayer
Nothing Is...
By Sun Ra
Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2005
Track listing: Sun Ra and His Band From Outer Space; The Shadow World; Theme of the Stargazers; Outer Spaceways Incorporated; Next Stop Mars; Dancing Shadows; Imagination; Second Stop is Jupiter; Exotic Forest; Velvet; Outer Nothingness; We Travel the Spaceways
Sun Ra: Nothing Is...
by Rex Butters
ESP's welcome reactivation continues with this reissue of Sun Ra's Nothing Is. The 1966 live recording has been resequenced to the set list's playing order, and it includes newly discovered performances. The improved package offers a more intimate look at one of Ra's most attractive ESP sessions. A dramatic build deflates to cubist Harlem with Sun ...
Pharoah Sanders: Pharoah's First
by Clifford Allen
Pharoah Sanders Pharoah's First ESP-Disk 2005 (1964) Hindsight can work wonders on the perception of a jazz musician's career, which makes it an exceptionally valuable tool to look at that artist's early recordings. Through the historian's lens, we can find snippets of what is to come in that first solo, ...
Albert Ayler: Live on the Riviera
by AAJ Staff
By Ted Kane Live on the Riviera is one of those CDs that is more interesting historically than compelling musically. It was recorded live in France less than four months prior to the saxophonist's death, and most of his devotees will want to hear it at least once, yet only a small segment of ...
Sun Ra: Heliocentric Worlds Vol. 1 & 2
by Rex Butters
ESP's reissue series matches two classics on one disc, Sun Ra's Heliocentric Worlds, Vol. 1 & 2. These two 1965 sessions feature the Arkestra playing out, but mostly in small units, and rarely with the quirky humor often in evidence on Ra recordings. This space seems more intimate and introspective than some other galactic narratives in ...
Pharoah Sanders: Pharoah
by Rex Butters
Recorded in 1964, the same year as Gods on Safari, his Sun Ra recording, and months before Ascension, his first with Coltrane, Pharoah's First pictures the legendary saxophonist Pharoah Sanders at the threshold of his historic and still startling cosmic operettas with John Coltrane. It was originally released on LP as two sidelong jams and has ...
Sun Ra: Nothing Is...
by Jerry D'Souza
In 1966 Sun Ra performed a series of concerts sponsored by the New York council of Arts which were released as Nothing Is. The tunes were sequenced for LP release, but now, after extensive research, more material from the concert which took place at the St. Lawrence University in Potsdam, New York has been unearthed and ...
Albert Ayler: Prophecy/Bells
by Clifford Allen
Albert Ayler Prophecy/Bells ESP-Disk 2005 Despite a rather brief period of artistic flourish (c. 1964 - c. 1967), tenor man Albert Ayler has probably, next to Coltrane and Cecil Taylor, held the most sway on the direction of improvisation from a 'thematic' or 'phrase-based' approach to that of ...
Frank Wright: The Complete ESP-Disk Recordings
by Clifford Allen
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 ...
