Suns Of Africa Pt. 1 - Music

Sunny Murray James Marcellus Arthur Murray Idabel Oklahoma September 21 1937 - December 8 2017 Was An American Jazz Drummer One Of The Pioneers Of The Free Jazz Style Of Drumming. Murray Spent His Youth In Philadelphia Before Moving To New York City Where He Began Playing With Cecil Taylor "We Played For About A Year Just Practicing Studying - We Went To Workshops With Varèse Did A Lot Of Creative Things Just Experimenting Without A Job". He Featured On The Influential 1962 Concerts In Denmark Released As Nefertiti The Beautiful One Has Come. He Was Among The First To Forgo The Drummer's Traditional Role As Timekeeper In Favor Of Purely Textural Playing. "Murray's Aim Was To Free The Soloist Completely From The Restrictions Of Time And To Do This He Set Up A Continual Hailstorm Of Percussion ... Continuous Ringing Stickwork On The Edge Of The Cymbals An Irregular Staccato Barrage On The Snare Spasmodic Bass Drum Punctuation And Constant But Not Metronomic Use Of The Sock-Cymbal". After His Period With Taylor's Group Murray's Influence Continued As A Core Part Of Albert Ayler's Trio Who Recorded Spiritual Unity "Sunny Murray And Albert Ayler Did Not Merely Break Through Bar Lines They Abolished Them Altogether." He Later Recorded Under His Own Name For ESP-Disk And Then When He Moved To Europe For BYG Actuel.
Murray Died In December 2017. Discography
As Leader 1965 Sunny's Time Now
1966 Sunny Murray ESP Disk 1968 Big Chief EMI/Pathé 1969 Homage To Africa BYG Actuel 1969 Sunshine BYG Actuel 1969 An Even Break Never Give A Sucker BYG Actuel 1978 Charred Earth Kharma 1979 Live At Moers-Festival Moers 1979 Aigu-Grave Marge With Bobby Few Alan Silva Richard Raux Pablo Sauvage
1980 Apple Cores Philly Jazz 1987 Indelicacy West Wind 1996 13 Steps On Glass Enja As Sideman With Cecil Taylor Cecil Taylor Jazz Unit The Early Unit 1962 Ingo Live At The Cafe Montmartre Debut Nefertiti The Beautiful One Has Come 1962 It Is In The Brewing Luminous 1980 With Albert Ayler Holy Ghost Revenant Ghosts Debut 1965 Spirits Debut 1966 Swing Low Sweet Spiritual Osmosis 1965 1971 Also Released As Goin' Home Black Lion With Bonus Tracks
Prophecy ESP Disk Spiritual Unity ESP Disk New York Eye And Ear Control ESP Disk Albert Ayler Philology 88 Bells ESP Disk Spirits Rejoice ESP Disk With Gil Evans 1961 Into The Hot Impulse! With Jimmy Lyons Jump Up/What To Do About Hathut With David Eyges Crossroads Music Unlimited With Billy Bang Outline No. 12 Celluloid With Khan Jamal Infinity Jam'Brio Change Of The Century Orchestra JAS Speak Easy Gazell With Alexander Von Schlippenbach Smoke FMP With Cheikh Tidiane Fall And Malachi Favors African Magic Circle With Burton Greene And Alan Silva Firmanence Fore With David Murray A Sanctuary Within Black Saint With Dave Burrell High Douglas Echo BYG Actuel With Aki Takase Clapping Music Enja With The Reform Art Unit Subway Performances Granit With Charles Gayle And William Parker Kingdom Come KFW With Art Blakey And His Jazz Messengers Art Blakey And His Jazz Messengers/Sonny Murray Quartet-1968 JCD With Archie Shepp
Live At The Pan-African Festival BYG Actuel Yasmina A Black Woman BYG Actuel Black Gipsy America Pitchin Can America Bill Dixon 7-Tette/Archie Shepp And The New York Contemporary 5 Savoy With Gunter Hampel Gunter Hampel And His Galaxie Dream Band Journey To The Song Within Birth With Sabir Mateen We Are Not At The Opera Eremite With Christian Brazier Peregrinations Bleu Regard With Walter Malli Geh' Langsam Durch Die Alten Gass'n PAO With Kenny Millions Loved By Millions Leo Mayhem In Our Streets Waterland No Money No Honey Hum Ha With Clifford Thornton Ketchaoua BYG Actuel With Arthur Doyle Dawn Of A New Vibration Fractual Live At Glenn Miller Café Ayler With Francois Tusques Intercommunal Music Shandar With Assif Tsahar And Peter Kowald MA Live At Fundacio Juan Miro Hopscotch With The Contemporary Jazz Quartet The Contemporary Jazz Quartet Featuring Sunny Murray Action Debut With Telectu 2002 Quartetos Clean Feed read less