Cecil Taylor

At the same time that Miles Davis was pioneering a spacious, hypnotic type of jazz-rock fusion , his recently departed drummer Tony Williams was inventing a more explosive, intense variety of fusion borne of hard-nosed jamming originally with guitarist John McLaughlin and organist Larry Young. Read More

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In the past, we've been proud to make available FMP titles that have languished out-of-print for many decades. Read More

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Jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman famously said that the difference between jazz and rock all comes down to one musical dynamic. Read More

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"He's so committed to the moment and its infinite potential of possibilities" said Bobby Zankel, the saxophonist, who has studied with Mr. Taylor and played in his ensembles off and on since the early 1970s. "Read More

While he's remembered foremost as a key contributor to the bands of jazz titan Charles Mingus, tenor saxophonist Booker Ervin also recorded a slew of outstanding albums as a leader, none of them better than his 1963 outing The Freedom Book. If the accumulated weight of post-bop's golden era can sometimes feel like an unfathomable musical avalanche, this casually faultless quartet outing is unquestionably one for the hearing. Read More

NEW YORK, NY: The historic Lenox Lounge, a fixture in Harlem since 1939, located on Lenox Avenue between 124th and 125th streets, has been home to some of the hottest jazz in the city from Billie Holiday and Miles Davis to Frank Sinatra and John Coltrane, and it's also been a favorite hang for many African-American writers, including James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, to name a select few. Read More