Sunny Murray RIP...

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"Sunny Murray, a pioneering free jazz drummer and bandleader of the free jazz movement, has reportedly passed away at the age of 82. Ayler Records, a Swedish labels with which Murray collaborated on some of his later recordings, confirmed the news today , as well as the French paper Libération . A representative from Eremite Records, another label on which Murray recorded, also confirmed the news to Spin.

Murray played and recorded with many giants of the avant-jazz genre".

BN.

[Serial_Apologist]

He joined Trane at just the right time.

R.I.P. great man.

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Rashied Ali?

"La batterie fut inventée pour et par le jazz signifiant pleinement toute sa révolution. Baby Dodds, Zutty Singleton, Gene Krupa, Walter Johnson, Jo Jones, Sidney Catlett, Cozy Cole, Kenny Clarke, Max Roach, Art Blakey en furent quelques gigantesques et décisifs signataires jusqu'à ce qu'en arrive un autre, Sunny Murray, à l'aube des années 60, pour révolutionner la révolution, autorisant tous les impossibles en une grande bourrasque à laquelle on doit tant.
Cette semaine, un grand musicien est mort".

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Interesting as an aside that the French "got", can do and revere jazz very well, but le beat? 'Opeless! Was it the language or the feel? France IS another country...

"Wow. Johnny Hallyday’s funeral is in the Marley / Senna / Princess Di league. Maybe a million on the Champs-Élysées, 700 Harley Davidsons escorting the hearse. pic.twitter.com/v7REWJKf0S" - Richard Williams, Guardian etc muso."