1986. ESP's first recording session was on July 10, 1964, in the tiny Variety Arts Recording Studio, just off Times Square. Just before 1 PM, SUNNY MURRAY arrived, a large, genial walrus, moving and speaking with an..

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2016. Recorded in Stockholm on October 25th, 1962, this session marks one of Ayler's earliest recordings, featuring a European backing group he assembled during his brief stay there, before returning to the States i..

2017.  - bells,vibrations

2015.  - spirits,ghosts: first variation,ghosts: second variation,the wizard

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2016. Recorded in Stockholm on October 25th, 1962, the session presented here marks one of Ayler's earliest recordings. It features the European backing group which he assembled before returning to the States in 196..

2015.  - bells,spirits,wizard,ghosts, first variation,prophecy,ghosts, second variation,disk 2:,spirits,saints,ghosts,the wizard,children,spirits (theme)

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2016.  Vinyl reissue.  Originally released in 1964, 'my name is albert ayler', is the debut-album from legendary free-jazz saxophonist albert ayler.  Recorded in copenhagen with a scand..

2023. Reisssue of the excellent 1967 live album from the free jazz saxophonist. This one was his first album for Impulse! Records and it's regarded as arguably his best album for the label.

1990. It isn't strictly an Albert Ayler album but a very interesting collaborative freely improvised soundtrack project for Michael Snow's film of the same name. Recorded in July 1964 by Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Ro..

1990. Live recording of Ayler's large septet configuration, featuring brother Donald, Charles Tyler, Sunny Murray and both Henry Grimes and Gary Peacock on bass. Compared to the bare trio of Spiritual Unity this nea..

2017.  - misoc is the healing force of the universe,birth of mirth,masonic inborn,oh! love of lofe,island harvest,heart love,ghosts

2023. Unorthodox saxophonist Albert Ayler straddled different jazz streams during his brief career. After playing with Stanley Turrentine and Harold Budd in the late 1950s, a move to Sweden brought him into the lime..

2017.  Albert ayler, tenor saxophone don cherry, trumpet, cornet john tchicai, alto saxophone roswell rudd, trombone gary peacock, bass sunny murray, drums - don's dawn,a y,itt

2023. Available on CD for the first time. Malik King was an important part of the St Louis jazz scene of the 70's & 80's. He studied under Albert Ayler in New York in the early 70's before returning to the Midwe..

2023. Available on CD for the first time. 'Artistry' was Sirone's first album as a leader, recorded in 1978, just after the split of the Revolutionary Ensemble. Artistry has an Atypical combination of instruments, b..

2024. By the early '70s, Milford Graves had more or less stopped gigging. Having learned his lesson the hard way in multiple-night runs like a legendary Slugs' residency with Albert Ayler, he knew that the level of ..

2024. Insect Trust were an American jazz-based rock band that formed in New York in 1967. The members of the band were Nancy Jeffries on vocals, Bill Barth on guitar, Luke Faust - formerly of the Holy Modal Rounders..

2024. First reissue of these cult 1974 recordings of a Mayan brass band playing funeral dirges and popular songs in its distinctive extended harmonic and rhythmic style. The members of the San Lucas Band lived in th..

2023. Available on CD for the first time. 'Artistry' was Sirone's first album as a leader, recorded in 1978, just after the split of the Revolutionary Ensemble. Artistry has an Atypical combination of instruments, b..

2016. The first release in a five-volume compilation series that covers the entire ESP Disk story. Compiled by Flavia Stollman, wife of the late Bernard Stollman (founder of the label where the artists decided what ..

2014. One of the great names of jazz, Count Basie's career endured for over 50 years, resulting in a host of classic songs and recordings. His bands' pounding rhythm and horn sections included such important names a..

2023. One of the most interesting young names within the Bergen and Norwegian jazz scene is saxophonist Aksel Roed. He has been playing with many different bands including General Post Office and Dag Arnesen, and he..

2019. Along with Chris McGregor, Gideon Nxumalo helped pioneer the pre-exile South African jazz sound. His 1962 album 'Jazz Fantasia' is widely regarded as a seminal South African jazz record. The record featured le..

2023. One of the most interesting young names within the Bergen and Norwegian jazz scene is saxophonist Aksel Roed. He has been playing with many different bands including General Post Office and Dag Arnesen, and he..

1990. MX-80 Sound is one of the real oddities in American music. Their debut album, 'Hard Attack' (released in the UK on Island Records), found little-to-no audience in the States upon its release in 1977, yet remai..

2016. In 1965. only a few months after recording 'Ghosts' with Albert Ayler. Sonny Murray released his first album as a leader. 'Sonny's Time Now' is one of the holy grails for collectors and aficionados of free ava..

2017. "With reference to American forebears of the '60s and '70s in the writing and arrangements, Ahlén and company still present a bitingly original group sound that will hopefully continue to be refine..

2015. The first ever vinyl reissue of the 1982 album from Chicago outsider artist Little Howlin' Wolf, a.k.a. james Pobiega. The music sounds like a baffling, hyper-creative statement as told through his gravelly vo..

2021. Could the missing link between Eric Dolphy and Albert Ayler be the Michel Portal album 'Alors!!!' from 1970? After having worked alongside François Tusques defending a free jazz "made in France&quo..