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Albert Ayler - Prophecy (1964) {Esp-Disk' Japan TKCZ-79121 rel 1993}
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© 1964, 1993 Esp-Disk' / Venus Records Japan | ESP-3030 / TKCZ-79121
Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Free Jazz / Tenor Saxophone

The first of Albert Ayler's ESP recordings (but one of the last to be released) is this live session with bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Sunny Murray. The tenor is heard on the earliest versions of his most famous theme, "Ghosts" (two renditions are included), along with such melodies as "Spirits," "Wizard," and "Prophecy." Ayler alternated the simple march-like themes with wild and very free improvisations which owe little if anything to the bop tradition, or even his contemporaries in the avant-garde. Ayler always had his own individual message, and his ESP sessions find him in consistently explorative form.

Sun Ra - College Tour, Volume One: The Complete Nothing Is… (1966) {2CD Set ESP 4060 rel 2010}
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© 1966, 2010 ESP Disk' ‎| ESP 4060
Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Space-Age / Jazz Funk / Progressive Jazz

In 1966 Bernard Stollman put together a multi-artist tour of five New York colleges and sent audio engineer David B. Jones on the road with it. When they returned, just 39 minutes of music was chosen to be released as the original Sun Ra LP Nothing Is… (ESP1045). Forty-four years later, after extensive research, Sun Ra archivist Michael D. Anderson pieced together some missing parts of the New York College Tour. Recorded on May 18th 1966 at St. Lawrence University in Potsdam, NY, this illuminating document represents the full 70-minute first set, from which Nothing Is… was taken, including an introduction by ESP artist Burton Greene.

Four new outstanding symphonic prog tracks from Tony Lowe’s ESP Project.
Tony Lowe's ESP Project is back with four great new tracks. Titled 'three', the new EP contains 30 min of progressive rock and is out on 19th January. ‘three’ has all the hallmarks of the first two ESP releases, with Tony's symphonic compositions and arrangements weaving in and out of evocative and passionate vocal sections, delivered with both sensitivity and power in all the right places by Damien Child, an accomplished actor and singer with many years experience in TV, Radio and West End Theatre…

Lowell Davidson - Lowell Davidson Trio (1965) {ESP-Disk ESP1012-2 rel 2000}
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© 1965, 2000 ESP-Disk / ZYX-Music | ESP 1012-2
Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Piano

For even the astute early creative music lover, pianist Lowell Davidson is an obscure figure in the annals of jazz. Recommended to ESP-Disk by Ornette Coleman and signed to record his music without an audition, Davidson was the son of a theologist, studied biochemistry at Harvard, was fatally injured in a lab accident, and died at age 50. This is his only studio session, although ESP claims to have a live date from a Boston engagement in the can. He is accompanied by the stellar, and in this case sublime rhythm section of bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Milford Graves, and the result is a fascinating display of understated, purely improvised music that is eminently listenable, beautifully conceived, and flowing through past, present (circa 1965) and future resources.