Sunny Murray
Hommage To Africa (LP)
LabelBYG RecordsGenreJazz & Improvisation
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condition (record/cover): NM / NM
Promotional copy. Gatefold sleeve.
Studio Saravah, Paris, August 15th 1969, a single afternoon, thirteen musicians. Sunny Murray had already dismantled the function of the drum kit twice over - with Cecil Taylor, then alongside Albert Ayler - and had followed the wave of American players who travelled to the Pan-African Festival in Algiers and on to Paris. What he assembled for this session is extraordinary: Archie Shepp, Roscoe Mitchell, Lester Bowie, Grachan Moncur III, Clifford Thornton, Kenneth Terroade, Dave Burrell, Alan Silva, Malachi Favors and the singer Jeanne Lee. "Suns Of Africa" fills a side and is one of the warmest and least abrasive things the free jazz movement produced.
Original French BYG pressing, third volume of the Actuel series, laminated gatefold. A landmark of the whole Paris moment.
Release notes
Recorded August 15, 1969, Paris. Gatefold sleeve
| A1 | Suns Of Africa - Part 1 | 15:24 | |
| A2 | Suns Of Africa - Part 2 | 2:42 | |
| B1 | R.I.P. | 9:30 | |
| B2 | Unity | 6:55 |
- Roscoe Mitchell
- Alto Saxophone, Flute
- Malachi Favors
- Balafon, Bells (A1, A2)
- Alan Silva
- Bass
- Clifford Thornton
- Cornet
- Sunny Murray
- Drums, Arranged By [All Tunes], Liner Notes, Written-By
- Claude Jauvert
- Engineer
- Claude Delcloo
- Executive-Producer
- Arthur Jones
- Gong, Tambourine, Bells (A1, A2)
- Dave Burrell
- Piano
- Jean Georgakarakos
- Producer
- Jean-Luc Young
- Producer
- Bisceglia
- Recorded By
- Archie Shepp
- Tenor Saxophone (A1, A2)
- Kenneth Terroade
- Tenor Saxophone, Flute
- Earl Freeman
- Timpani [Tympani], Bells (A1, A2)
- Grachan Moncur III
- Trombone
- Lester Bowie
- Trumpet, Flugelhorn (A1, A2)
- Jeanne Lee
- Voice, Bells (A1, A2)
