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	Browse by Artist: MURRAY, SUNNY
		Sunny Murray is 'rightly regarded as jazz's first free drummer.
		Murray's act of liberation -- to free drummers from their strict time-keeping role -- still outrages many listeners, and his militant individuality, his obstinate adherence to his artistic vision over the years, still make him something of an outlaw presence in jazz.
		Sunny Murray: drums; Sabir Mateen: alto and tenor saxophones, clarinet; John Blum: piano; Oluyemi Thomas: bass clarinet and c-melody saxophone.
	www.forcedexposure.com /artists/murray.sunny.html (1232 words)

	eremite records - sunny murray & sabir mateen
		Sabir Mateen may not be as well-known as Sunny Murray is, but he's every bit as effective and iconoclastic.
		When Murray plays you can feel, as Annette Peacock put it in an interview, that there are at least 12 children inhabiting one adult body.
		Apparently Sunny was so drawn to his kit that he started playing during an intended intermission, a sound which attracted Mateen out from the dressing-room to join him; 'Too Many Drummers, Not Enough Time.' We are most certainly not at the opera.
	www.eremite.com /discography/murray14.html (892 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The cd is a duo recording with the drummer Sunny Murray, recorded live 2000 at Glenn Miller Café in Stockholm and released by the Swedish fiery-spirit Ayler Records.
		The recording wisely mixes Murray's drums behind Doyle's horns (live gigs have often found the saxophonist at something of a disadvantage when it comes to competing with Sunny's volcanic onslaughts), and the interplay between the musicians is evident throughout.
		With reference to my extended interview with Murray and his wish to be acknowledged by younger drummers, his playing on this album ought to serve as an inspiration for generations to come.
	www.ayler.com /002rev.html (2713 words)

	CMT.com : Sunny Murray : Biography
		Sunny Murray was one of the early avant-garde's most inventive and influential drummers, doing a great deal to establish the role of the drums in free improvisation.
		Murray could swing as hard as anyone, he often abandoned the drums' traditional timekeeping role.
		In 1968, Murray traveled to France, where he played with Archie Shepp and recorded as a leader for Affinity and BYG Actuel; returning to the U.S. in 1971, Murray settled in Philadelphia and formed a group called the Untouchable Factor, which he led off and on through varying lineups.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/murray_sunny/bio.jhtml (354 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Peacock and Murray sensitively pace their pulsating waves so the sound-field is ever-shifting, never becoming blurred or mono-dynamic; and Cherry's theme statements and solos capture that perfect combination of brassy adventure and ragged glory that made him the Archangel Gabriel of creative music.
		A detta di Sunny Murray avrebbe voluto unirsi a questo quartetto.
		Sunny Murray, who has claimed to be the original proponent of free jazz drumming, contributes his typically staccato style.
	www.ayler.com /033rev.html (5093 words)

	MURRAY, Sunny : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Went to Europe with Taylor and Jimmy Lyons '63; joined trio with Albert Ayler and bassist Gary Peacock; played with Don Cherry, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, etc. Returned to France '68 for several months, played with Archie Shepp, Grachan Moncur III, etc. An album was recorded privately by LeRoi Jones '65 with quintet incl.
		Cherry, Ayler, Jones speaking on one track; it was released on Jihad under Murray's name.
		Murray was the first free drummer, influencing a whole generation, and is still at it.
	www.musicweb-international.com /encyclopaedia/m/M289.HTM (126 words)

	Henry Grimes, Sunny Murray and David Murray at the Haarlem Jazzstad
		The Haarlem Jazzstad Festival in Holland was host to the astonishing Henry Grimes Trio with Sunny Murray and David Murray on Fri 18 August 2006.
		Sunny Murray at first refused to play an encore, instead lighting a cigarette and leaning nonchalantly against the piano.
		When Grimes cued Murray to take a solo, Murray played a rat-a-tat figure on his snare and neatly brought the song and concert to an end.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=22859 (541 words)

	Albert Ayler 1963-1964
		Sunny Murray, playing a minimal kit of snare and bass drums, a single suspended cymbal, and his voice,[76] makes the most radical statement of any player (except for Albert Ayler) on the record.
		Murray too plays a greater variety of textures on this recording, perhaps aware that he is being decently recorded, for the first time with Ayler.
		Sunny Murray: Then, when I went to Europe with a group I co-led with Albert Ayler--that was the Free Jazz Group and Gary Peacock and Don Cherry was in it--a lot more strange things happened that I didn't understand.
	www.geocities.com /jeff_l_schwartz/chpt2.html (6293 words)

	Murray on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Murray is in a popular tourist and retirement area, near state parks and a recreational area operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority.
		Jane Murray, right, talks with Katharine Miller at her clinic with practitioners of alternative medicines.
		Murray has a highly personal approach to her patients spending an hour interviewing patie
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/m/murrayu1s1.asp (758 words)

	Murray on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Murray and the Murrumbidgee, a tributary, receive most of the diverted water from the Snowy Mts.
		The Murray valley contains almost all of Australia's irrigated land; vines, fruits, and vegetables are grown.
		Murray has a highly personal approach to her patients.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/MurrayR1.asp (807 words)

	www.jazzweekly.com \| Reviews
		Luckily drummer Sunny Murray, who has had bouts of strangeness himself in the almost 40 years since he first came to prominence with Cecil Taylor, is here to offers some focus.
		Multi-noted atonality is his stock in trade and he seems to begin his police siren-like horking at the point where Pharoah Sanders or Peter Brötzmann at their most discordant would have run out of steam, and go on from there.
		Unfortunately, as on "Joy" there seems to be no beginning or end to his honking attack and it falls to Murray's virtuosic snare and cymbal work to supply a structure.
	www.jazzweekly.com /reviews/adoyle_live.htm (606 words)

	volcanic tongue \| catalogue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Sunny Murray is widely credited with being the first drummer to fully liberate the kit, developing a form of omni-directional accompaniment that dissolved the distinction between supporting and leading and helped spark the free jazz revolution that took place in the early 60s.
		Both discs document the core duo of Murray and saxophonist Sabir Mateen, best known as a member of NY guerrilla jazz outfit Test, alone and in the company of various guests, including pianists Dave Burrell and John Blum, saxophonist Louis Belogenis and bassist Alan Silva.
		Murray is on fierce, articulate form and he makes with some wild solo statements, building compulsive tattoos from associative percussive strategies, as well as moments of pure, straight-ahead thump.
	ww.volcanictongue.com /eremite.html (1109 words)

	davidmurraylist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		David Murray is frequently regarded as being a member of the avant garde but his playing falls well within the modern mainstream/post bop tradition.
		Today David Murray must be regarded as being among the small handful of truly great jazz tenor saxophonists as well as the finest bass clarinet player jazz has produced.
		Murray, although having lost some his rawness in recent years again proved himself to be the most exciting and original tenor saxophonist in jazz today.
	www.homestead.com /johnjazz/davidmurray.html (2351 words)

	Billboard.com - Discography (more) - Sunny Murray - Sunny Murray
		"Sunny Murray is the only drummer who ever played the Theory of Relativity," commented Alan Silva in a recent interview, and barely seconds into the drum solo that opens this album it's not hard to see exactly what he means.
		Lancaster's wailing on "Hilariously" might recall the classic Albert Ayler Quartet that Murray played with in Europe in 1964, but Murray's compositions are no longer anchored by references to folk and gospel, as Ayler's were -- instead, they exist as strange energy fields in their own right.
		Murray revisited some of these pieces on later occasions -- notably "Giblet," which pops up on his BYG Actuel classic An Even Break (Never Give a Sucker) -- but for sheer raw power and ferocious creativity, this 1966 set needs some beating.
	www.billboard.com /bbcom/discography/more.jsp?tp=albums&pid=7119&aid=594325 (275 words)

	Classic Drum Solos and Drum Battles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Sunny Murray (born 1937): For those who think of the Philadelphia-born Murray as strictly a "free" or "avant-garde" drummer, it is important to note that early in his career, he played with traditional jazz greats like Henry "Red" Allen and Willie "The Lion" Smith, and later with cutting-edge hard-boppers Ted Curson and Jackie McLean.
		Murray (born 1927) took Jones' concepts as a freer player a step beyond in the latter 1960s via his work with Albert Ayler, Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp and other free players.
		Murray was and is a major contributor to what musicologists Ira Gitler and Leonard Feather described as a nonmetrical commentary style of free-jazz drumming.
	www.hudsonmusic.com /DVD/ClassicDSandDBDVD.html (4806 words)

	Review Archives
		Not only is Murray, who lives in Paris, a jazzman without compromise, but he was one of the men who helped birth the so-called New Thing.
		Murray wipes the toms and spanks the snares with pixie-light jumps more often than he crashes and rolls.
		Earlier, Murray supplies an object lesson in Free Jazz drumming, applying just enough torque to vary the rhythm from flams, drags and forced ratamacues, clattering the cymbals.
	www.jazzword.com /nova/showreview.pl?item=104144 (725 words)

	HERSTORY
		Sunny Murray, the father of Avant Garde drumming, in the 70's formed a group called the Untouchable Factor.
		The nucleus of the band was Sunny Murray, Khan Jamal, Byard Lancaster, Monnette Sudler and Philly Joe Jones.
		The two concerts featured the music of Murray, Lancaster, Jamal, Sudler and Pope, however future concerts were dedicated to the late John Coltrane (by it's association with the Trane Stop resource Institute) and Duke Ellington as well as music by Murray.
	www.monnettesudlermusic.com /herstory.html (569 words)

	Tony Overwater & The Hyper Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		That same year he was asked to join David Murray and Sunny Murray on a European tour.
		In 1992 Tony Overwater made several tours with the Sunny Murray quartet and recorded several CD's with Dutch groups such as The Yuri Honing Trio and Zut Alors and made his first recording with David Murray for Black Saint.
		This is a unique project in which talented musicians are working together on the developement and promotion of their vision of contemporary jazz.
	www.netcetera.nl /jazzmarathon/95/jmtony.html (591 words)

	FAC PRESS RELEASE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Like Baby Dodds and Kenny Clarke before him, Sunny Murray revolutionized the role of the trap drums in jazz.
		His playing with Albert Ayler and Cecil Taylor opened up entirely new expressive realms for the instrument, and his influence on the last thirty-five years of improvised music cannot be overestimated.
		Murray was an indispensable force in the early defining moments of free-jazz working with Archie Sheep, Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry among countless others.
	www.umass.edu /fac/calendar/solosandduos/pressreleases/Murray.Sabir.html (412 words)

	MTV.com - Sunny Murray
		Born James Marcellus Arthur Murray in Idabel, OK, Sunny began drumming at age nine and moved to New York in 1956.
		While touring Europe with Taylor, Murray met Albert Ayler, and wound up joining his band in 1964; through 1967, Murray appeared on most of the saxophonist's greatest free jazz sessions.
		In 1968, Murray traveled to France, where he played with Archie Shepp and recorded as a leader for Affinity and BYG Actuel; returning to the U.S. in 1971, Murray settled in Philadelphia and formed a group called the Untouchable Factor, which he led off and on through varying lineups.
	www.mtv.com /bands/az/murray_sunny/bio.jhtml (347 words)

	The Clarinet In Jazz Since 1945: David Murray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		David Murray is primarily a tenor saxophonist, but he is notable for having his own style on bass clarinet, a style not overly indebted to Eric Dolphy.
		In the 1980's, John Carter called on Murray to be in his Clarinet Summit, which released two albums with Murray.
		Murray has managed to fuse many styles of jazz improvisation into one all-encompassing approach.
	users.bestweb.net /~msnyder/clarinet/murray.htm (288 words)

	Albert Ayler: His Life and Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Sunny Murray: No one would give him [Ayler] a job and he was getting depressed.
		On this recording, Sunny Murray is torrential, attacking his two cymbals, bass drum, two tom-toms, and snare with frightening intensity while dividing his continuous flow of percussion with moans of irregular length.
		Murray tries the same technique accompanying the tenor solo but Albert does not yield, and coaxes Murray to build up to his densest before turning the spotlight over to cellist Joel Freedman.
	www.math.ucdavis.edu /~mawillia/ayler.html (21423 words)

	The History of Jazz Music. Sunny Murray: biography, discography, review, links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Setting the example for others, Oklahoma-born Jimmy "Sunny" Murray (1936), who moved to New York in 1956 and played with Cecil Taylor in 1959-62 and with Albert Ayler in 1964-67, revolutionized the role of the drums by abandoning the traditional time-keeping role in favor of a sound-making role (mostly by cymbals and snare).
		Basically the drums became percussion instruments whose role was to create sound (and, ultimately, contribute to the polyphony) as much as any other instrument.
		Murray later formed the Untouchable Factor in 1971, but the quartet of reeds, piano (Burrell), bass and drums was documented only years later on Charred Earth (january 1977).
	www.scaruffi.com /jazz/smurray.html (279 words)

	New York Press
		Surprise album of the season: a summit meeting of three of the original free-jazz gods–Shepp, Richard Davis and Sunny Murray.
		They’re in what might be the autumn of their years, just sitting down and jamming, mostly on some old blues standards.
		Track 2, a Sunny Murray composition called "Et Moi," is a samba-like construction, with Shepp adding some snake-charmingly mad coils of full-throated tenor-sax blare.
	www.nypress.com /print.cfm?content_id=4448 (469 words)

	KFJC On-Line Reviews » Murray, Sunny - “An Even Break ” - [Byg Records] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Murray, Sunny - “An Even Break ” - [Byg Records]
		Between 1969-1971, BYG/Actuel recorded and released 52 essential documents of boundary-breaking music, including this exhilarating quartet recording led by drummer Sunny Murray.
		A frequent sideman to Cecil Taylor and Albert Ayler, Murray is accompanied here by the double saxophone assault of Byard Lancaster and Kenneth Terroade, with the Art Ensemble’s Malachi Favors on bass.
	spidey.kfjc.org /index.php?p=643 (228 words)

	Sunny Murray -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Sunny Murray -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Sunny Murray is one of the pioneers of the free jazz style of (The act of playing drums) drumming.
		He was among the first to forgo the (Someone who plays a drum) drummer's traditional role as timekeeper in favor of purely textural playing.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/su/sunny_murray.htm (51 words)

	Tennessee-Martin vs MURRAY STATE (Nov 13, 2004)
		MURRAY STATE: First-ever shutout of UTM in Murray, second shutout of Skyhawks all-time.
		MURRAY STATE-Schultz 8-0; Hampton 6-0; White 4-0; Dykes 3-1; Samuel 3-0; Blake 3-0; Delusme 3-0; Archer 3-0; Dixson 1-1; Walker 1-0; Farrington 1-0; Speeg 1-0; Gallishaw 1-0; Westbrook 1-0; Woods 1-0; Whitaker 1-0; Godson 1-0; Ryan 1-0.
		MURRAY STATE: 1-Gallishaw, 2-Westbrook, 4-Lane, 6-Dykes, 7-Fisher, 8-Rumley, 9-Whitaker, 15-Ryan, 16-Salyer, 17-Delusme, 18-Biggers, 20-Farrington, 22-Turner, 26-Walker, 27-Hampton, 28-Cook, 30-Schultz, 33-Webber, 42-Woods, 43-Baxter, 48-Blake, 49-Riley, 52-Godson, 82-Gaither, 87-Crass, 90-White, 92-Archer, 95-Dixson, 97-Speeg, 99-Samuel.
	www.utm.edu /departments/athletics/athletics/Stats/football/murvutm.htm (4025 words)

	Sunny Murray - AOL Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Drummer, composer, and bandleader Sunny Murray was born in Idabel, Okla. in 1936.
		Sunny Murray Interview-Paris Transatlantic is a site for Global Coverage of New and Avant-Garde Non-Commercial Music, Dance, and Art: Electronics,...
		Watch or listen to Sunny Murray music videos, songs, live performances, concerts and more on AOL Music.
	music.aol.com /artist/sunny-murray/7203/main (153 words)

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