Jimmy Lyons
Nefertiti (LP)
1975 re-issue with different cover on Trio/Freedom's "Freedom Discover The '60's Series" of the 1966 album featuring Jimmy Lyons. With insert and obi.
Nuits De La Fondation Maeght Vol. 1 (LP)
1973 Japanese edition on RCA of the 1971 live album recorded in 1969 and originally released as a 3LP box set, featuring Jimmy Lyons, Andrew Cyrille and Sam Rivers.
Nuits De La Fondation Maeght Vol. 2 (LP)
Original French edition on Shandar of the 1972 live album recorded in 1969 and originally released as a 3LP box set, featuring Jimmy Lyons, Andrew Cyrille and Sam Rivers.
Akisakila (2LP)
Original edition of the Japan-only 1973 live double-album on Trio Records featuring Jimmy Lyons and Andrew Cyrille. With insert.
Great Paris Concert 1 (LP)
Original Japanese edition of the second volume of the 1977 re-issue on Trio/Freedom as two separate LP's of the 1973 Japan-only double album titled Student Studies, with recordings from 1966 featuring Jimmy Lyons, Alan Silva and Andrew Cyrille. With insert.
Great Paris Concert 2 (LP)
Original Japanese edition of the second volume of the 1977 re-issue on Trio/Freedom as two separate LP's of the 1973 Japan-only double album titled Student Studies, with recordings from 1966 featuring Jimmy Lyons, Alan Silva and Andrew Cyrille. With insert.
Live In The Black Forest (LP)
Original Japanese edition of the 1979 album on MPS featuring Jimmy Lyons. With insert and obi.
The Jazz Composer's Orchestra (2LP)
1980 re-issue on JCOA Records of the 1968 double-album by Michael Mantler's big band featuring Cecil Taylor, Don Cherry, Pharoah Sanders, Jimmy Lyons, Alan Silva, Charlie Haden, Kent Carter, Andrew Cyrille, Carla Bley, Steve Lacy and Gato Barbieri and many others.
The Jazz Composer's Orchestra (2LP)
1980 re-issue on JCOA Records of the 1968 double-album by Michael Mantler's big band featuring Cecil Taylor, Don Cherry, Pharoah Sanders, Jimmy Lyons, Alan Silva, Charlie Haden, Kent Carter, Andrew Cyrille, Carla Bley, Steve Lacy and Gato Barbieri and many others.
Rivbea Live! Series, Volume 3
Track 1 recorded May 21, 1976 at the Wildflowers festival
Track 2 recorded June 20, 1974
Jimmy Lyons - alto saxophone
Karen Borca - bassoon
Hayes Burnett - bass
Henry Letcher - drums
Syd Smart - drums
Nuba (LP)
* Original 1979 vinyl edition of the album. Few copies available. Sealed copies * Drummer Andrew Cyrille and alto saxophonist Jimmy Lyons developed an impressive chemistry during their years with Cecil Taylor. Cyrille's array of percussion instruments and mastery of multiple styles, from hard bop to Afro-Latin, enabled him to play rippling rhythms or light, tinkling lines, attack, or lay back. Lyons' alto solos were alternately driving and soft, sometimes searing in their intensity, sometimes mo…
Push Pull
2016 release. A reissue of Jimmy Lyons's Push Pull, originally released on Hat Hut Records in 1979. Long known as Cecil Taylor's most reliable and loyal colleague, alto saxophonist Jimmy Lyons has a select discography as a leader, and among its best entries is Push Pull, originally issued by Hat Hut Records as a massive three LP set. Recorded during a single marathon performance at the Collective for Living Cinema in New York in 1978, Push Pull features five extended pieces, all by Lyons, with h…