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Ketchaoua (album)
''Ketchaoua'' is an album by multi-instrumentalist and composer Clifford Thornton. It was recorded in August 1969 at Studio Saravah in Paris, and was released by the Actuel label later that year. On the album, Thornton is heard on cornet, and is joined by saxophonists Arthur Jones and Archie Shepp, trombonist Grachan Moncur III, pianist Dave Burrell, bassists Beb Guérin and Earl Freeman, and drummers Sunny Murray and Claude Delcloo. The album was recorded shortly after Thornton, as a member of Archie Shepp's group, visited Algiers and participated in the recording of '' Live at the Pan-African Festival'', which featured Shepp's ensemble supplemented by several North African musicians. ''Ketchaoua'' is named after the district in Algiers where the musicians performed. The recording took place as part of a marathon week-long BYG session during which Shepp also recorded ''Yasmina, a Black Woman'', '' Poem for Malcolm'', and ''Blasé'', and which also yielded albums by artists su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clifford Thornton
Clifford Edward Thornton III (September 6, 1936 – November 25, 1989) was an American jazz trumpeter, trombonist, activist, and educator. He played free jazz and avant-garde jazz in the 1960s and '70s. Career Clifford was born in Philadelphia. The year of his birth has been reported as early as 1934 or as late as 1939. He briefly attended Morgan State University and Temple University. Jazz pianist Jimmy Golden was his uncle, while his cousin, drummer J. C. Moses, had a jazz career that was cut short by failing health. Clifford began piano lessons when he was seven-years-old. Several biographers report that Clifford studied with trumpeter Donald Byrd during 1957, after Byrd had left Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, and also that he worked with 17-year-old tuba player Ray Draper and Webster Young. Following a late 1950s stint in the U.S. Army bands Thornton moved to New York City. Clifford's political and musical motivations are epitomized by his statement: "For a lot of brothers l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homage To Africa
''Homage to Africa'' (also released as ''Hommage to Africa'') is an album by American free jazz drummer Sunny Murray. It was recorded in Paris in August 1969, and released on the BYG Actuel label in 1970. On the album, Murray is joined by saxophonists Roscoe Mitchell, Archie Shepp and Kenneth Terroade, trumpeter Lester Bowie, cornetist Clifford Thornton, trombonist Grachan Moncur III, vocalist Jeanne Lee, pianist Dave Burrell, bassist Alan Silva, and percussionists Malachi Favors, Earl Freeman, and Arthur Jones. The album was recorded as part of a marathon week-long BYG session which also produced Murray's '' Sunshine'' as well as albums by artists such as Archie Shepp (''Yasmina, a Black Woman'', '' Poem for Malcolm'', and ''Blasé''), the Art Ensemble Of Chicago (''Message to Our Folks'' and ''Reese and the Smooth Ones''), Grachan Moncur III ('' New Africa''), Alan Silva (''Luna Surface''), Dave Burrell (''Echo''), Andrew Cyrille (''What About?''), and Jimmy Lyons (''Other Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hat Hut Records
Hathut Records is a Swiss record company and label founded by Werner Xavier Uehlinger in 1974 that specializes in jazz and classical music. The name of the label comes from the artwork of Klaus Baumgartner. Hathut encompasses the labels hat ART, hatOLOGY, and hat NOIR. The label's first releases were by Joe McPhee. Its roster includes Ray Anderson, Anthony Braxton, Lisle Ellis, Georg Graewe, Gerry Hemingway, Franz Koglmann, Steve Lacy, Joelle Leandre, Myra Melford, Paul Plimley, Max Roach, Horace Tapscott, Cecil Taylor, Mike Westbrook, John Zorn, Vienna Art Orchestra, David Murray, Luzia von Wyl, Archie Shepp, Jimmy Lyons, Tony Coe, Michel Portal, and Sun Ra, The label progressed through a range of series featuring distinct packaging styles, from the initial runs of initial 12 inch LP's with alphabetical and numerical catalog numbers with sleeve drawings and paintings by Klaus Baumgärtner, to elaborately packaged boxes with inserts and postcards, and then black and white ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Other Afternoons
''Other Afternoons'' is an album by American jazz saxophonist Jimmy Lyons, recorded in 1969 and released in 1970 on the BYG label as part of their Actuel series. His first recording as leader, it features Lyons on alto saxophone along with trumpeter Lester Bowie, bassist Alan Silva, and drummer Andrew Cyrille. (Lyons had played with Silva and Cyrille in Cecil Taylor's band.) The album was recorded as part of a marathon week-long BYG session which also produced albums by artists such as Archie Shepp (''Yasmina, a Black Woman'', ''Poem for Malcolm'', and ''Blasé''), the Art Ensemble Of Chicago (''Message to Our Folks'' and ''Reese and the Smooth Ones''), Grachan Moncur III ('' New Africa''), Alan Silva (''Luna Surface''), Dave Burrell (''Echo''), Andrew Cyrille (''What About?''), and Sunny Murray (''Homage to Africa'' and ''Sunshine''). Reception In his AllMusic review, Eugene Chadbourne awarded the album 4.5 stars, stating "this album stands out as containing much superior playi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Lyons
Jimmy Lyons (December 1, 1931 – May 19, 1986) was an American alto saxophone player. He is best known for his long tenure in the Cecil Taylor Unit. Lyons was the only constant member of the band from the mid-1960s until his death. Taylor never worked with another musician as frequently as he did with Lyons. Lyons' playing, influenced by Charlie Parker, kept Taylor's avant-garde music tethered to the jazz tradition.Kelsey, ChrisJimmy Lyons''AllMusic'' Biography Lyons was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States, and raised there until the age of nine, when his mother moved the family to Harlem and then the Bronx. He obtained his first saxophone in the mid-1940s and took lessons from Buster Bailey. After high school, Lyons was drafted into the United States Army and spent 21 months on infantry duty in Korea. He then spent a year playing in army bands. Once discharged he attended New York University. By the end of the 1950s, Lyons was supporting his interest in music by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What About?
''What About?'' is a solo percussion album by drummer Andrew Cyrille, his first recording under his own name. It was recorded in Paris in August 1969, and released on the BYG Actuel label later that year. The album was recorded as part of a marathon week-long BYG session which also produced albums by artists such as Archie Shepp (''Yasmina, a Black Woman'', ''Poem for Malcolm'', and ''Blasé''), the Art Ensemble Of Chicago (''Message to Our Folks'' and ''Reese and the Smooth Ones''), Grachan Moncur III ('' New Africa''), Jimmy Lyons (''Other Afternoons''), Dave Burrell (''Echo''), Alan Silva (''Luna Surface''), and Sunny Murray (''Homage to Africa'' and ''Sunshine''). Reception In a review for AllMusic, Eugene Chadbourne wrote: "The selections are each clearly defined as to where they are going and present an overwhelming sense of love for the drum set, as if each movement around its rims and cymbals could become a chapter in a life story... Cyrille here is delighted by the availa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Cyrille
Andrew Charles Cyrille (born November 10, 1939) is an American avant-garde jazz drummer. Throughout his career, he has performed both as a leader and a sideman in the bands of Walt Dickerson and Cecil Taylor, among others. AllMusic biographer Chris Kelsey wrote: "Few free-jazz drummers play with a tenth of Cyrille's grace and authority. His energy is unflagging, his power absolute, tempered only by an ever-present sense of propriety." Life and career Cyrille was born in Brooklyn, New York, United States, into a Haitian family. He began studying science at St. John's University, but was already playing jazz in the evenings and switched his studies to the Juilliard School. His first drum teachers were fellow Brooklyn-based drummers Willie Jones and Lenny McBrowne; through them, Cyrille met Max Roach. Nonetheless, Cyrille became a disciple of Philly Joe Jones. His first professional engagement was as an accompanist of singer Nellie Lutcher, and he had an early recording sess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Echo (Dave Burrell Album)
''Echo'' is a studio album released by jazz pianist Dave Burrell. It was recorded on August 13, 1969, and first released as an LP album by BYG Actuel. It was re-released twice, first again on LP by Get Back Records in 2001 before finding its way to compact disc in 2004 via Sunspots Records. Burrell had been part of an all-star group led by Archie Shepp that played during the 1969 Pan-African Festival in Algiers. While there, French journalists from Paris were on hand and mentioned to Burrell the possibility recording in the city. Deciding on such a venture, Burrell remarked that he "remembered the sound of the ambulances and the police cars in Algiers and that unstable interval of an augmented fourth and thought that was the interval that I wanted to put into 'Echo'." The recording was Burrell's way of honouring the group, since all were involved in the album. It has been said that the album as a whole "is monster of an LP" and "a curiously schizophrenic set."''The Penguin Guid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luna Surface
''Luna Surface'' is an album by multi-instrumentalist Alan Silva, recorded on August 17, 1969 and released later that year on the BYG label as part of their Actuel series. His first recording as leader, it features Silva on violin along with a large ensemble known as the Celestrial Communication Orchestra. The album was recorded as part of a marathon week-long BYG session which also produced albums by artists such as Archie Shepp (''Yasmina, a Black Woman'', '' Poem for Malcolm'', and ''Blasé''), the Art Ensemble Of Chicago (''Message to Our Folks'' and ''Reese and the Smooth Ones''), Grachan Moncur III ('' New Africa''), Jimmy Lyons (''Other Afternoons''), Dave Burrell (''Echo''), Andrew Cyrille (''What About?''), and Sunny Murray (''Homage to Africa'' and '' Sunshine''). In an interview, Silva commented: If you look at it a certain way, it was one of the longest recording sessions in the history of the music... Every day for about a week there were rehearsal sessions, repeti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Silva
Alan Silva (born Alan Lee da Silva; January 22, 1939 in Bermuda) is an American free jazz double bassist and keyboard player. Biography Silva was born a British subject to an Azorean/Portuguese mother, Irene da Silva, and a black Bermudian father known only as "Ruby". He emigrated to the United States at the age of five with his mother, eventually acquiring U.S. citizenship by the age of 18 or 19. He adopted the stage name of Alan Silva in his twenties. Silva was quoted in a Bermudan newspaper in 1988 as saying that although he left the island at a young age, he always considered himself Bermudian. He was raised in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, where he first began studying the trumpet, and moved on to study the upright bass. Silva is known as one of the most inventive bass players in jazz and has performed with many in the world of avant-garde jazz, including Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, Sunny Murray, and Archie Shepp. Silva performed in 1964's October ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Africa (album)
''New Africa'' is an album by American trombonist Grachan Moncur III recorded in 1969 and released on the BYG Actuel label in the same year. It features alto saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell (Art Ensemble of Chicago), pianist Dave Burrell, bassist Alan Silva and drummer Andrew Cyrille. Tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp performs on the final track. Reception Scott Yanow of Allmusic stated: "Also put out in Europe by the BYG and Actuel labels, this British LP is fairly adventurous, featuring the originals and trombone of Grachan Moncur III. He matches ideas with altoist Roscoe Mitchell, pianist Dave Burrell, bassist Alan Silva, drummer Andrew Cyrille and (on one of the four pieces) his former boss, tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp. Three of the selections are a bit reminiscent of the John Coltrane Quartet in their modality, but it is during the four movements of the continuous 'New Africa' that Moncur can be heard at his dynamic best." A reviewer of Dusty Groove wrote: "Excellent work from tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reese And The Smooth Ones
''Reese and the Smooth Ones'' is a 1969 album by the Art Ensemble of Chicago recorded in Paris for the French BYG Actuel label. It features performances by Lester Bowie, Joseph Jarman, Roscoe Mitchell and Malachi Favors Maghostut. Reception The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 3 stars noting that "The episodic music continually holds one's interest, and overall, it makes a unified (if unpredictable) statement".Yanow, SAllmusic Reviewaccessed July 28, 2011. Track listing # "Reese Part 1 / The Smooth Ones Part 1" - 20:02 # "Reese Part 2 / The Smooth Ones Part 2" - 20:57 :''"Reese" composed by Roscoe Mitchell'' :''"The Smooth Ones" composed by Lester Bowie'' :*Recorded August 12, 1969 in Paris Personnel *Lester Bowie: trumpet, percussion instruments *Malachi Favors Maghostut: bass, percussion instruments, vocals *Joseph Jarman: saxophones, clarinets, percussion instruments *Roscoe Mitchell Roscoe Mitchell (born August 3, 1940) is an American composer, jazz instru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |