Milford Graves RIP

[Tenor Freak]

Slightly surprised nobody else here has commemorated the late Milford Graves. RIP.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/feb/14/milford-graves-the-pioneering-drummer-whose-naturalistic-rhythms-freed-up-jazz

[Serial_Apologist]

Slightly surprised nobody else here has commemorated the late Milford Graves. RIP.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/20...-freed-up-jazz

For me Graves was the best among the new percussionists/drummers on the 60s NY avant-garde scene.

[Jazzrook]

For me Graves was the best among the new percussionists/drummers on the 60s NY avant-garde scene.

The Don Pullen/Milford Graves 1966 duet album 'In Concert at Yale University' is one of the great free jazz recordings recently reissued by Corbett vs Dempsey and currently available from Honest Jon's:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=nkbXbwbdJbg

JR

[Jazzrook]

Milford Graves with Albert Ayler, Don Ayler & Alan Silva playing 'Ghosts' in 1967:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=Tp6pu6Hhcjg

JR

[Jazzrook]

The New York Art Quartet with John Tchicai, Roswell Rudd, Reggie Workman & Milford Graves playing 'Everything Happens To Me' from their hard-to-find 1965 album 'Mohawk':

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=-X7zsXX0M_o

JR