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Sunny Murray

Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2008
Track listing: Early History/The New Music (interview); Phase 1.2.3.4; Sunny Murray (interview); Hilariously; Angels and Devils; Giblet; Recap Session (interview); Musicians and Magic (interview).

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Sunny Murray: Sunny Murray

Read "Sunny Murray" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


Sunny Murray illuminates jazz drumming. His open meters and timing set rhythm and pulse on a new and invigorating course. In doing so, he gave jazz drumming a dynamism and drive that still resonates. In the early days of his career, Murray played with Jackie McLean, Cecil Taylor and Albert Ayler. This gave him ...

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Sunny Murray Trio with John Edwards and Tony Bevan: The Gearbox Explodes!

Read "The Gearbox Explodes!" reviewed by Chris May


Released under the titular leadership of drummer Sunny Murray, The Gearbox Explodes! features the same line-up as Home Cooking In The UK (Foghorn Records, 2004), and is in practice another exercise in collective music making of the purest and least hierarchical kind. Murray's leadership is confined to establishing an opening tempo and beat for each of ...

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Sunny Murray, Assif Tsahar & Shmil Frenkel at Levontin 7, Tel Aviv

Read "Sunny Murray, Assif Tsahar & Shmil Frenkel at Levontin 7, Tel Aviv" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Sunny Murray, Assif Tsahar & Shmil Frenkel Levontin 7 Tel Aviv, Israel June 11, 2007 Israeli saxophonist Assif Tsahar could have not find a better way to celebrate his birthday: a concert with one of the forefathers of free and modern jazz, American and Paris-based drummer ...

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Perles Noires vol. 1

Label: Eremite Records
Released: 2005

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Home Cooking in the UK

Label: Foghorn Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Split Lip; Home Cookin' in the UK; Split Decision

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Sunny Murray/John Edwards/Tony Bevan: Home Cooking in the UK

Read "Home Cooking in the UK" reviewed by Germein Linares


The overall loose and disjointed rhythms of free jazz can, at least in part, be traced back to Sunny Murray's innovations of the late '50s and early '60s. Having worked with men like Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, and Albert Ayler, Murray found a cadence to match the wide, wild, and multi-dimensional aspects of these free-jazzers. Of ...

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Home Cooking In The Uk

Label: West Wind
Released: 2004

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Article: Interview

Sunny Murray

Read "Sunny Murray" reviewed by Clifford Allen


Drummer, composer, and bandleader Sunny Murray was born in Idabel, Okla. in 1936. After moving to New York, a brief period of involvement with bebop musicians quickly gave way to several years of playing with Cecil Taylor (CT) in trio, quartet, quintet and septet settings (1959-1965). In addition to his longstanding association with the “88 Tuned ...

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The Copenhagen Tapes

Label: Ayler Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Spirits/ Vibrations/ Saints/ Mothers/ Children/ Spirits/ Introduction by B


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