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It has become clear that Matthew Shipp is the most interesting and important jazz pianist of his generation, the most continually evolving and pushing forward Now that he's in his sixties and something of an elder statesman of the art form, he's overdue for a retrospective look at his catalog, and to help make that happen,...
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Out of stockReissue, originally released in 1967 Frank Wright returned to the studio in May 1967 to make his second album using a quintet of players little-known at the time but now legends to free-jazz cognoscenti Trumpeter Jacques Coursil, who almost made an album for ESP-Disk' himself, went on to the greatest fame of the players besides...
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Reissue, originally released on ESP Disk' in 1966 Frank "The Reverend" Wright was one of the most powerful saxophonists to pick up on Albert Ayler's freedom and ferocious playing Born in Mississippi and raised in Memphis, TN and then Cleveland, OH, he started in music as a bassist in blues bands but switched to tenor sax under the...
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ESP-Disk present a reissue of Albert Ayler's Prophecy, originally released in 1975 Recorded in concert at the Cellar Cafe, NYC, June 14, 1964 Three weeks before this trio recorded ESP-Disk's first jazz album, the epochal Spiritual Unity, it was captured "live" by Canadian poet Paul Haines, who also recorded the New York Eye and...
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Out of stockFree Music 1 And...
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ESP-Disk' present a Lowell Davidson Trio's self-titled album, originally released in 1965 On Ornette Coleman's recommendation, ESP-Disk' owner Bernard Stollman signed up pianist Lowell Davidson (then majoring in biochemistry at Harvard) for this album without having heard him play Davidson came to New York and got to work with the...
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Legendary Sun Ra bassist Ronnie Boykins stepped out on his own for his first and only release as a leader on The Will Come, Is Now He was invited by ESP in 1964 to record his own album, and in February 1974, he told ESP that he was finally ready, and the session took place later that month This recording not only features Boykins'...
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ESP-Disk present a vinyl reissue of Henry Grimes Trio's The Call, originally released in 1966 It has occasionally been assumed that Henry Grimes got this December 28, 1965 recording date as a reward for his long service in the avant-garde of jazz Having already honed his musical conception with a varied range of players, from...