David Murray
David Murray is an American jazz saxophonist and bass clarinetist, born in 1955 in the San Francisco Bay Area and based in New York. He arrived in New York in 1975, during the loft jazz years, and has recorded steadily since. He is best known as a founding member of the World Saxophone Quartet and as a tenor player who drew on Albert Ayler and Ben Webster more than on John Coltrane. Murray studied at Pomona College, where Bobby Bradford was one of his teachers. In New York his early trio had Stanley Crouch on drums, and his early leader dates include Low Class Conspiracy (1976).
Windward Passages
Duo album by David Murray (tenor sax, bass clarinet) and Dave Burrell (piano, voice), with Monika Larsson (voice), recorded at Mu Rec Studio, Milan, on December 8, 1993. Originals plus Jelly Roll Morton's The Crave and two takes of Naima.
New Life
The David Murray Octet with Baikida Carroll, Hugh Ragin, Craig Harris, John Purcell, Steve Colson, Wilber Morris and Ralph Peterson, recorded at Sorcerer Sound, New York, on October 8, 1985. Four Murray compositions. Black Saint, first issued 1987.
Live At «Sweet Basil» - Vol. 2
Live recording by the David Murray Big Band, conducted by Butch Morris, at Sweet Basil, New York, on August 24-26, 1984, with Olu Dara, Steve Coleman, Fred Hopkins and Billy Higgins. Second volume, Black Saint, first issued 1986.
Live At «Sweet Basil» - Vol. 1
David Murray Big Band conducted by Butch Morris, live at Sweet Basil, New York, August 24 to 26, 1984: Murray, Steve Coleman, Craig Harris, Olu Dara, Baikida Carroll, Fred Hopkins, Billy Higgins and others. Four Murray compositions.
The Complete Remastered Recordings on Black Saint & Soul Note Volume 3
Six-CD box, the third of David Murray's Black Saint recordings: Interboogieology (1978), both Live At Sweet Basil big band volumes (1984), Children (1984), Southern Bells with Clarinet Summit (1987) and The Healers with Randy Weston (1987).
Speaking In Tongues
One day in a Paris studio, December 1997. David Murray goes back to the gospel church of his Berkeley childhood with Fontella Bass, the voice of Rescue Me and the Art Ensemble's Theme de Yoyo, over Hammond B3, electric bass and guitar. Amazing Grace, How I Got Over, and Murray's own twelve-minute Missionary.
Revue (LP)
Original Italian edition on Black Saint of the 1982 album featuring Julius Hemphill, Oliver Lake and David Murray.
Live In Zurich (LP)
Original edition of the 1984 Italy-only album on Black Saint featuring Julius Hemphill, Oliver Lake and David Murray. With original innersleve.
Conceptual Saxophone (LP)
Original UK edition of the 1978 album on Cadillac Records never re-issued on either vinyl or CD.
Let The Music Take You (LP)
Original Japanese 1982 edition on DIW/Marge of the 1978 album featuring Johnny Dyani and Lawrence "Butch" Morris. With obi.
Last Of The Hipman (LP)
Original Japanese 1983 edition on DIW / Red Record of the 1978 album featuring Johnny Dyani and Lawrence "Butch" Morris. With obi.
The London Concert (2LP)
Original UK edition of the 1979 live double-album on Cadillac Records featuring Lawrence 'Butch' Morris.
The London Concert (2LP)
Original Japanese edition of the 1979 live double-album on Cadillac Records featuring Lawrence 'Butch' Morris. With obi.
Morning Song (LP)
Original Japanese edition on DIW / Black Saint of the 1984 album. With obi.
Recording NYC 1986 (LP)
Original edition of the 1986 Japan-only album on DIW featuring Sunny Murray and James Blood Ulmer. With obi.
New Music - New Poetry
A seamless blend of the avant jazz of David Murray (sax) and Steve McCall (drums) with the powerful prose and cadence of Amiri Baraka! This first ever reissue of poet and social/political activist Amiri Baraka’s electric live 1982 beat poetry reading is newly remastered and includes a zine-style poetry insert and liner notes by David Murray!
“The poetry I want to write is oral by tradition, mass aimed as its fundamental functional motive. Black poetry, in its mainstream, is oracular, sermonic, …
Clarity
To mark 50-years since a 22 year old Michael Gregory Jackson recorded his groundbreaking first release, "Clarity / Circle / Triangle / Square", recorded with the mind blowing group of his contemporaries Oliver Lake, David Murray and Leo Smith. This album is like no other I know, a new world, finding a perfect balance between multiple genres. Moved-By- Sound is very excited and honored to be involved in releasing the first reissue authorized by Michael Gregory Jackson since the original release i…
Spirit Groove: Golden Sea Duo in Shenzhen
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David Murray - Saxophone Kahil El'Zabar - Percussion / Kalimba / Voice
Recorded at the 10th OCT-LOFT International Jazz Festival, B10 Live, Shenzhen October 27th, 2023
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The Recursive Tree
"The Recursive Tree features a rather remarkable trio consisting of John Blum on piano, tenor-saxophonist David Murray, and Chad Taylor on drums. Although the three musicians had never before recorded together, they sound very much like a working trio. The title is inspired by a concept in mathematics that explains the architecture in nature arising from systematic growth over time. This algorithmic expression also illustrates the growth of Jazz through the art form’s incremental expansion of id…
Challenge
*2022 stock* Futura Marge presents Challenge by Hal Singer (tenor saxophone), David Murray (tenor saxophone), Lafayette Gilchrist (piano), Jaribu Shahid (double bass) & Hamid Drake (drums) - guest on two tracks: Rasul Siddik (trumpet). Recorded on 9 and 10 April 2010 at the EGP studio in Paris
The London Concert
** In process of Stocking. 2021 Stock ** Cadillac presents The London Concert by David Murray. Remastered from the original 2LP set (released in 1979) and including 2 previously unreleased tracks, Nairobia and Flowers For Albert (and reuniting the two halves of Murray’s Steps…). Recorded live at the Collegiate Theatre, London, England on August 11, 1978.
Tenor Saxophone – David Murray, Cornet – Lawrence 'Butch' Morris, Piano – Curtis Clark, Bass – Brian Smith, Drums – Clifford Jarvis.
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Ballads For Bass Clarinet
David Murray Quartet's 1993 Japan only CD release Ballads For Bass Clarinet (DIW/Disk Union) is issued for the first time on vinyl by Ko Ko Music. Comprising a couple of waltzes, a blues, a Monk-ish suite-like piece, a free-ish drums and clarinet interlude, and finally an elegy to civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer - David Murray leads on bass clarinet, managing to go both deep and soaringly high, it sometimes sounds like two different instruments are being played. But this is not a solo effor…
Light The Early Years 1975 - 1989
NoBusiness Records is pleased to announce a new archive release from it’s series of important musicians and group recordings from the 70s and 80s, which either were never released before or released on small private labels but long out of print and now newly remastered.This release is dedicated to William Hooker’s early music and covers his most important works during the period from 1975 to 1989. Newly remastered material is now presented in a 4 CD boxed set.
William Hooker is an artistic whol…