Los Angeles, 1969. The first record of the John Carter - Bobby Bradford Quartet, the West Coast free jazz band Ornette Coleman had brought together in 1965, with Tom Williamson on bass and Bruz Freeman on drums. Five Carter pieces for Bob Thiele's ne…
A New Black Poet: Gil Scott-Heron's first record, 1970, a book of poems read in front of an audience with three percussionists, Eddie Knowles, Charlie Saunders and David Barnes, produced by Bob Thiele. The first version of The Revolution Will Not Be …
RCA Studios, 19 and 20 April 1971. Gil Scott-Heron's first studio album, with Brian Jackson on piano, Ron Carter, Hubert Laws, Bernard Purdie and Burt Jones, produced by Bob Thiele. The band version of The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Lady Day a…
Lonnie Liston Smith's first album under his own name, 1973, straight out of the Pharoah Sanders band and the Thembi sessions where the title track was born on a Fender Rhodes. Cecil McBee, Joe Beck, Badal Roy on tabla, Mtume on congas, a tamboura. Si…
Martinique, December 1984. Jaco Pastorius and Rashied Ali, Coltrane's last drummer, on stage together at the end of a workshop, taped for French radio. Bass and drums alone. Released by Timeless; Pastorius died three years later. Never issued in the …
Grand Rapids, Michigan, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, 28 April 2003. The Billy Bang Quintet with Frank Lowe on tenor, Andrew Bemkey on piano, Todd Nicholson on bass and Tatsuya Nakatani on drums. Lowe was playing with one lung. He died that …
NoBusiness Records is proud to present Incantations, an extraordinary live recording featuring three uncompromising voices of free jazz and spontaneous composition: pioneering drummer Sunny Murray, visionary multi-instrumentalist Arthur Doyle, and th…
NoBusiness Records is proud to announce the release of New Light, a previously issued live recording featuring three singular figures in the history of free jazz and improvised music: legendary drummer Sunny Murray, multi-instrumentalist Arthur Doyle…
NoBusiness Records proudly presents Rivbea Live! Series, Volume 5, a previously released live document capturing the remarkable creative energy of the Black Artists’ Group at Studio Rivbea in New York City on February 6, 1974. Featuring alto saxophon…