Can you ID this avant-jazz artist/composition?

[shnaggletooth]

This is from an unlabeled 78 reference disc I have, but I don't have a clue who it is. Sounds like something that might have been done in the late 50's/early 60's for some off-off-Broadway beatnik play:

DivShare File - excerpt from unknown.mp3

Edited October 10, 2009 by shnaggletooth

[Hardbopjazz]

It's an early Kenny G recording.

[Joe]

Tony Scott?

[shnaggletooth]

Tony Scott?

I gave a listen to some Tony Scott excerpts on the Amazon site, but I couldn't find anything that sounded like the piece.

Here's a more conventional piece that might be easier to ID. It's from an acetate labeled "Body and Soul" (with "Drum solo" written on the reverse side). I think it's Coleman Hawkins, but that's my own barely-educated guess. The distortion is from the original recording source: http://www.divshare.com/download/8862940-f6b

Edited October 11, 2009 by shnaggletooth

[jeffcrom]

Here's a more conventional piece that might be easier to ID. It's from an acetate labeled "Body and Soul" (with "Drum solo" written on the reverse side). I think it's Coleman Hawkins, but that's my own barely-educated guess. The distortion is from the original recording source: http://www.divshare.com/download/8862940-f6b

I can only help in a negative way - it's not Coleman Hawkins.

[Chuck Nessa]

My first thought was early Moondog.

[Don Brown]

The first sample could be early Sun Ra. The second is definitely NOT Coleman Hawkins.

[Chas]

The first sample could be early Sun Ra.

FWIW , that was my initial reaction as well .

[shnaggletooth]

Sun Ra and Moondog seem to fit that kind of music. Why or why couldn't whoever prepared the disc (either one) take the extra one second and write down the performers' names?

On the same topic of mysterious acetate discs, here's an older thread of mine concerning an alleged "Charlie Parker" recording. I'm still trying to get to the bottom of that mystery.