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James Marcellus Arthur "Sunny" Murray (born Idabel, Oklahoma in 1936) is one of the pioneers of the free jazz style of drumming. Idabel is a city in McCurtain County Oklahoma, United States. Year 1936 ( MCMXXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. For the Ornette Coleman album after which this genre was named see Free Jazz A Collective Improvisation. The drum is a member of the percussion group technically classified as a Membranophone.

Murray spent his youth in Philadelphia before moving to New York City where he began playing with Cecil Taylor: "We played for about a year, just practicing, studying - we went to workshops with Varèse, did a lot of creative things, just experimenting, without a job" [1]He featured on the influential 1962 concerts in Denmark released as Nefertiti the Beautiful One Has Come. Philadelphia (ˌfɪləˈdɛlfiə The City of New York Cecil Percival Taylor (born March 15 or March 25, 1929 in New York City) is an American Pianist and poet WikipediaWikiProject Composers#Lead section --> Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse, whose name was also spelled Edgar Varèse The Kingdom of Denmark ( ˈd̥ænmɑɡ̊ (archaic ˈd̥anmɑːɡ̊ commonly known as Denmark, is a country in the Scandinavian region of northern Europe Nefertiti the Beautiful One Has Come is a 1962 Album by the Cecil Taylor Unit recorded live at the Café Montmartre in Copenhagen

He was among the first to forgo the drummer's traditional role as timekeeper in favor of purely textural playing. A drummer is a Musician who plays a Drum or drums particularly a Drum kit ("drum set" or "trap set" Marching percussion "Murray's aim was to free the soloist completely from the restrictions of time, and to do this he set up a continual hailstorm of percussion . . . continuous ringing stickwork on the edge of the cymbals, an irregular staccato barrage on the snare, spasmodic bass drum punctuation and constant, but not metronomic, use of the sock-cymbal" [2]

After his period with Taylor's group, Murray's influence continued as a core part of Albert Ayler's trio who recorded Spiritual Unity: "Sunny Murray and Albert Ayler did not merely break through bar lines, they abolished them altogether. Albert Ayler ( July 13, 1936 – November 1970 was an American avant-garde Jazz saxophonist, singer and Composer. Spiritual Unity is an Album by the American Jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler (1936-1970 " [3]

He later recorded under his own name for ESP-Disk and then when he moved to Europe for BYG Actuel. ESP-Disk is a New York -based Record label, founded in 1966 by the lawyer Bernard Stollman, originally financed from an inheritance BYG Actuel was a French Record label specialising in Free jazz.

Discography

as bandleader:

as The Untouchable Factor:

with Cecil Taylor:

with Albert Ayler:

with Gil Evans:

with Jimmy Lyons:

with David Eyges:

with Billy Bang:

with Khan Jamal:

with Alexander von Schlippenbach:

with Bill Dixon and Archie Shepp:

with Cheikh Tidiane Fall and Malachi Favors:

with Burton Greene and Alan Silva:

with David Murray:

with Dave Burrell:

with Aki Takase:

with The Reform Art Unit:

with Charles Gayle and William Parker:

with Art Blakey and his Jazz Messengers:

with Archie Shepp:

with Gunter Hampel:

with Sabir Mateen:

with Christian Brazier:

with Walter Malli:

with Kenny Millions:

with Clifford Thornton:

with Arthur Doyle:

with Francois Tusques:

with Assif Tsahar and Peter Kowald:

with The Contemporary Jazz Quartet:

References

  1. ^ Lock, Graham (1994). Gunter Hampel (born August 31, 1937) is a German Jazz vibraphonist, Clarinettist, Saxophonist, Flautist Sabir Mateen is a musician and composer from Philadelphia who plays primarily in the Avant-garde jazz idiom BYG Actuel was a French Record label specialising in Free jazz. Ayler Records is a Swedish Record label which specializes in Free jazz recordings Assif Tsahar (b Israel, June 11, 1969) is an Israeli tenor saxophonist and Bass clarinetist He has lived in New York Peter Kowald ( April 21 1944 &ndash September 21 2002) was a German Free jazz Musician A member of the Globe Unity Debut Records was a United States Jazz Record label, which was founded in 1952 by Bassist Charles Mingus, his then-wife Chasing the Vibration. Devon: Stride Publications, 120. ISBN 1873012810.  
  2. ^ Wilmer, Val (1977). As Serious as your life. Quartet. ISBN 0-7043-3164-0.  
  3. ^ Litweiler, John (1984). The Freedom Principle: Jazz After 1958. Da Capo.  

4. Sinclair, John and Robert Levin (1970). Going Outside. Music & Politics. World

5. Rivelli, Pauline and Robert Levin (1979). Sunny Murray: The Continuous Cracking of Glass. 'Giants of Black Music. Da Capo ISBN 0-306-80119-1

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