Sunny Murray

[Late]

Sunny Murray - Spiritual Infinity

Columbia (unissued) New York City; early 1968

Clifford Thornton: trumpet, trombone

Arthur Jones: alto saxophone

Frank Wright: tenor saxophone

Dave Burrell: piano

Sunny Murray: drums

(possible others)

Columbia (unissued) New York City; early-mid 1968

Clifford Thornton: trumpet, trombone

Dewey Redman: alto, tenor saxophones

Frank Wright: tenor saxophone

Dave Burrell: piano

Alan Silva: violin, bass

Juni Booth: electric bass

Sunny Murray: drums, siren

Art Lewis: percussion, maracas, washboard

What ever happened to this session? Are the tapes forever lost? Murray discusses it briefly in this (quite interesting) interview, but doesn't really address its fate. Any chance that it possibly survived, and is sitting in a vault somewhere?

[JohnS]

Too scary to issue?

[clifford_thornton]

Neither session was complete enough to use on even half an album, and tapes were probably destroyed in the great Columbia warehouse fire in, I think, the early 80s.

Supposedly...

[Michael Fitzgerald]

Is the above facetious? If so, it's very subtle.... No need to read any further.

If not, it was Atlantic Records that had the warehouse fire, not Columbia. This was 1976.

Mike

[brownie]

From what I remember, the session was not really completed. And then the Columbia executives probably thought it better just to ignore it.

Columbia did issue the Burton Greene 'Presenting Burton Greene' album which did not sell well.

[Late]

In the interview (linked above), Murray makes it sound like this session came off smashingly (pun or no pun intended). He even mentions that he'd "composed" some John Cage-like pieces for the session. I could probably do without the siren, but I would like to hear Frank Wright and Dewey Redman.

Too bad Murray himself doesn't possess a copy ...

(Check out his words, too, on Milford Graves, Bernard Stollman, and The BYG Clan ... )

[Late]

Hommage ...

Murray, Gary Peacock, Albert Ayler, Don Cherry

[bertrand]

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3pm to 5:30    Sunny Murray special (JHDB From the Lab session) 

5:30 – 6:30     A musical sampling of 40’s R&B as the Chicago blues was taking shape. 

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Sunny Murray (1937–2017) was the father of avant garde jazz drumming. A few days ahead of his birthday anniversary, we’ll consider Murray’s place in the music through the fraught, controversial, revealing (and rare!) case of his aborted 1968–69 LP project for Columbia Records.  Only here; only now. 

 

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