eMusic, the online haven for independent music (and the second largest digital music retailer behind iTunes) is now offering saxophonist David Murray’s long out-of-print DIW catalog.
Milford Graves was into his own version of World Music long before there was the term. His individualistic approach to the rudiments of drumming and its rhythmic pulses were light years ahead of most musicians.
I'm in trouble again. The proximate cause is not my failure to accept the fact that Barack Obama is as good as we're going to get as president given our fouled up election system, but that I'm not enthusiastic about it. As a fellow journalist put it, ''You
Sweet Honey in the Rock at Cass Technical High School; Cystic fibrosis benefit at Royal Oak Music Theatre; Albert Ayler documentary MOCAD; Spring Boating Expo at Rock Financial Showplace; Ted Neeley at the Fox Theatre.
Though ESP-Disk is mostly thought of as a label that proffers free music as a saxophonist-led revolutionâ€with numerous discs by figures like Albert Ayler, Frank Wright, Marion Brown and Giuseppi Loganâ€the piano's place in their early catalog is certainly notable.
The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently.
Whether talking Jandek or Albert Ayler or La Monte Young, some musicians-- even if their work is inventive and perhaps revolutionary-- owe their reputations-at-large to public personality.
Released under the titular leadership of drummer Sunny Murray, The Gearbox Explodes! features the same line-up as Home Cooking In The UK (Foghorn Records, 2004), and is in practice another exercise in collective music making of the purest and least hierarchical kind.
(79 mins, No Rating, 2005). Although the national visibility of The Secret : may be on the wane, its true believers are still going strong. Noise Pop celebrates its sweet sixteen with expanded coverage of art, film, comedy, and a whole lot of noise.
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