It's Not Up to Us is the debut album by saxophonist/flautist Byard Lancaster released in 1968 on the Vortex label, an Atlantic subsidiary.

Pitchfork's Andy Beta stated "What strikes me first is the overall melodic sensibility of each of the players. Lancaster, on alto sax and flute, would go on to play with outsider luminaries like Sun Ra, Bill Dixon, and Fred Hopkins. Sharrock's violently strummed strings on Black Woman and Monkey-Pockie-Boo led to the vortices of Sonic Youth, Fugazi, and pretty much all future physical guitarists. Eric Gravatt would soon join an early version of Weather Report, yet everyone defers their skronkier, unrestrained abilities to the overall structure of each tune. This gives the Anglo folk base of some of Lancaster's compositions plenty room to be heard and hummed" - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJk4RUQVBYQ

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Sunny Murray, also known as Sunny Murray Quintet, is an album by American free jazz drummer Sunny Murray, his second as a leader. It was recorded in New York City in January, 1966, and released on the ESP-Disk label. The album features Murray on drums along with alto saxophonists Byard Lancaster and Jack Graham, trumpeter Jacques Coursil, and bassist Alan Silva.

Writing for All About Jazz, Jerry D'Souza commented: "The music is intense, but it is also passionate... [it] ferments, roils, and fascinates." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc3byDMEv1k&list=RDHc3byDMEv1k&start_radio=1

#SunnyMurray #FreeJazz #Jazz #ESPDisk #ByardLancaster #AlanSilva #Music

Intents and Purposes is an album by American jazz trumpeter Bill Dixon, which was released in 1967 on RCA Victor. ..The album's title is an example of a Siamese twins idiomatic expression.

In his review for All About Jazz, Troy Collins states: "Intents And Purposes has long been revered as Bill Dixon's singular masterpiece...The reissue allows the record to finally take its rightful place alongside such masterpieces as Ornette Coleman's Free Jazz, John Coltrane's Ascension and Miles Davis' Bitches Brew." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W10eSZDPqcU&list=RDW10eSZDPqcU&start_radio=1

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Marzette Watts and Company, also known as Marzette and Company, is the debut album by saxophonist and composer Marzette Watts. It was recorded in December 1966 in New York City, and was released by ESP-Disk in 1968.

John Garratt, writing for PopMatters, stated: "Marzette Watts was caught in the very middle of the civil unrest of 1960s America.... Watts struggled to belong somewhere. The music of Marzette Watts & Company reflects this turmoil and the list of soon-to-be-famous names accompanying him on the album suggests that misery loved company... Half these musicians have passed on, but their 'Backdrop for Urban Revolution' continues to stay in motion, thanks to gut-punching artifacts like this one."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEz1tQIgS0M&list=RDSEz1tQIgS0M&start_radio=1

#MarzetteWatts #ByardLancaster #CliffordThornton #SonnySharrock #KarlBerger #HenryGrimes #FreeJazz #Jazz #ESPDisk #Music

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#AksakMaboul, #Altered:Carbon, #AphexTwin, #TheBalkyMule, #TheBeatles, #BérurierNoir, #Carmine, #TheCure, #DedalusEnsemble, #TheEx, #FantômeJosepha, #BrigitteFontaine, #BrigitteFontaine #AreskiBelkacem, #GodspeedYouBlackEmperor, #TheHoneymoonKillers, #ByardLancaster, #Nijiumu, #Ø, #ÉlianeRadigue, #RienVirgule, #JohnSurman, #LaTène, #AnnaVonHausswolff, #ByronWestbrook

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Doug Hammond Folks 1980

"...Released in 1980, Hammond's third album is described by jazz critic Francis Davis (Village Voice, Atlantic Monthly) in Downbeat Magazine as "something of an omnibus – there's a little bit of everything here, the best of it excellent." Expect bright original compositions filled with dancing rhythm duets, sonorous cello, modal vocalese & more. Recorded with bassist Cecil McBee, vocalists Angela Bofil and Bessie Carter, saxophonists Steve Coleman and Byard Lancaster and cellist Muneer Abdul Fataah, Hammond is an unassuming leader, acting as an imaginative drummer who allows the soloists to shine time and time again. Now considered a rare, classic spiritual jazz session of the era." Soundohm

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jmtUULgrBs

Khan Jamal - "Infinity" (1984)

#NowPlaying #KhanJamal #ByardLancaster #SunnyMurray #vinyl #VinylRecords @vinylrecords

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lVBfKtHznAKc1j5DS_bOTSCE2MEOZBq8s&si=wrbkHDLsCTKEWl4X

Est-ce que rendre visite à mon disquaire fait le bonheur de mon banquier ? Clairement, non, mais je l'emmerde, car il fait mon bonheur à moi, et ça, ça vaut plus que la vie d'un banquier.

Pouet qui comprend du #CrysCole, du #GodspeedYouBlackEmperor, du #AnnaButterss, du #SarahDalvachi, du #LautenDerSeele, du #ByardLancaster, du #TheCatsMiaow, du #HoracioVaggione, et du #robertcahen

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Si vous voulez mon avis, foncez sur ce coffret magnifique, à la fois l'objet et le contenu, d'après ma source super bien informée puisqu'elle est de tout premier choix : ça se vend très bien et vite, et il n'y aura pas de repressage, car très galère à produire. Donc vous savez ce qu'il vous reste à faire si vous aimez le #FreeJazz, le #vinyl qui sent bon et plus globalement la très bonne #music :

#ByardLancaster • The Complete Palm Recordings 1973 - 1974 (SouffleContinu Records, 2024)

https://soufflecontinurecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-complete-palm-recordings-1973-1974

PS: et le label devrait se mettre au ralenti dans les mois à venir, en raison d'une surchauffe du marché du vinyle !

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