Sunny Murray

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Albert Ayler Trio Sunny Murray & The Untouchable Factor Albert Ayler Quartet Sunny Murray Trio Jimmy Lyons & Sunny Murray Trio The Contemporary Jazz Quartet Sunny Murray Quintet The Louie Belogenis Trio The Cecil Taylor Group Change of the century Orchestra Free Jazz Art David Eyges Trio Sunny Murray Spiritual Ensemble

ex Albert Ayler Quintet, The Cecil Taylor Unit, David Murray Quartet, The New York Contemporary Five, Galaxie Dream Band

American free jazz drummer.
Born September 21, 1936, Idadel, Oklahoma, USA.
Died December 8, 2017 in Paris, France.

ALBUMS

Sunny Murray, Bernard Lubat, Sylvain Guérineau, Francis Marmande

Spontane'uz Combustion

2023, 3xFile, WAV, Labeluz

Borah Bergman, Wilber Morris, Sunny Murray

2019, 2xCD, Album, Ltd, some real music,

Free Jazz/Free Improvisation

François Tusques, Sunny Murray

Intercommunal Dialogue 1&2

The Louie Belogenis Trio with Sunny Murray & Michael Bisio

2011, CD, Album, Porter Records,

Sunny Murray - John Edwards - Tony Bevan

2011, CD, Album, Foghorn Records, Foghorn Records

Sunny Murray • John Edwards • Tony Bevan

I Stepped Onto A Bee

2011, CD, Album, Foghorn Records

Sonic Liberation Front Meets Sunny Murray

Sonic Liberation Front Meets Sunny Murray

2010, CD, Album, High Two

John Blum With Sunny Murray And William Parker

In The Shade Of Sun

2009, CD, Album, Ecstatic Peace!,

Free Jazz/Free Improvisation

Mark O'Leary & Sunny Murray

Ode To Albert Ayler

Perles Noires Vol. I

2005, CD, Album, Eremite Records, Eremite Records,

Perles Noires Vol. II

2005, CD, Album, Eremite Records

Sunny Murray / Tony Bevan / John Edwards

Home Cooking In The UK

2004, CD, Album, Foghorn Records,

Free Improvisation

Assif Tsahar / Peter Kowald / Sunny Murray

Ma (Live At The Fundacio Juan Miro)

2003, CD, Album, Hopscotch Records (3), Hopscotch Records (3)

Sunshine & An Even Break (Never Give A Sucker)

2002, CD, Comp, RE, Fuel 2000,

Arthur Doyle & Sunny Murray

Live At Glenn Miller Café

2001, CD, Album, Ayler Records

Santez (3) & Sunny Murray

2001, CD, Album, SSL-Productions

Arthur Doyle / Sunny Murray

Dawn Of A New Vibration

2000, CD, Album, Fractal Records (2)

The Contemporary Jazz Quartet Featuring Sunny Murray / The Contemporary Jazz Quintet

The Original Debut Recordings 1964 & 1967

2000, CD, Album, RE + CD, Album, RE + Comp, SteepleChase

David Eyges Trio With Byard Lancaster & Sunny Murray

2000, CD, Comp, Quixotic Records (2)

Reform Art Unit* Featuring Carla Bley, Andrew Cyrille, Burton Greene, Sunny Murray, Linda Sharrock, Clifford Thornton

2000, 2xCDr, Granit (2),

Avant-garde Jazz

Change Of The Century Orchestra, Sunny Murray - Khan Jamal - Romulus*

Change Of The Century Orchestra

1999, CD, J.A.S.

Sunny Murray w/ Sabir Mateen

We Are Not At The Opera

Christian Brazier, Sunny Murray, Rasul Siddik, Sophie Agnel

Pérégrinations

1997, CD, Bleu Regard

Sunny Murray, Robert Andreano, Bob Dickie

Sunny Murray Duo Featuring Charles Gayle

1996, CD, Album, Audible Hiss

Ayler* / Murray* / Peacock*

Albert Smiles With Sunny

Sunny Murray & R.A.U.*

1995, CD, Album, InRespect

Sunny Murray, Odean Pope, Wayne Dockery

13# Steps On Glass

Aki Takase, Reggie Workman, Sunny Murray

Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz

The Reform Art Unit Featuring Sunny Murray

Subway Performance

1994, CD, Album, Granit Records (2),

Charles Gayle With Sunny Murray & William Parker

Keshavan Maslak With: Sunny Murray And John Lindberg

Loved By Millions

Sunny's Time Now & More

1993, CD, Comp, Jazzette,

David Murray Quartet Featuring Sunny Murray, Kahil El'Zabar, Tony Overwater

A Sanctuary Within

Alexander von Schlippenbach And Sunny Murray

Birth Of A Movement: The Avant Garde Movement In Jazz

1987, Cass, Jazz Chronicles

1985, 7", S/Sided, Promo, DIW

David Eyges With Byard Lancaster & Sunny Murray

1982, LP, Album, Music Unlimited (4), Music Unlimited (4)

Keshavan Maslak, Loek Dikker, Mark Miller (3), Sunny Murray

Mayhem In Our Streets

1980, LP, Album, Waterland,

Free Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz

Burton Greene Encounters Alan Silva And Sunny Murray

1980, LP, Album, Fore (2)

Cheikh Tidiane Fall, Malachi Favors, Sunny Murray

1979, LP, Circle Records (2),

Free Jazz/Free Improvisation

Sunshine / Hommage To Africa

An Even Break (Never Give A Sucker)

Hommage To Africa

Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, John Tchicai, Roswell Rudd, Gary Peacock, Sonny Murray*

New York Eye And Ear Control

Albert Ayler Quartet Featuring Don Cherry, Gary Peacock And Sonny Murray*

The Contemporary Jazz Quartet Featuring Sonny Murray*

Sonny's Time Now

Free Jazz/Poetry

Tchangodei - Sunny Murray - Sonny Simmons

Perfekte Leere -> Liebe

CD, Album, Volcanic Records,

The Cecil Taylor Unit

Live At Fat Tuesday's February 10, 1980 First Visit

2024, CD, Album, ezz-thetics

Albert Ayler Quartet

Copenhagen Live 1964

Albert Ayler Quartet

European Radio Studio Recordings 1964

2016, CD, Comp, hatOLOGY,

Ein Komet Ist Ein Schmutziger Schneeball

1997, 2xCD, Comp, Faruk Musik, Indigo (2), Schneeball,

Krautrock/Jazz-Rock/Folk Rock/Pop Rock

Jimmy Lyons & Sunny Murray Trio

Jump Up / What To Do About

Sunny Murray Quintet

Albert Ayler Quartet

The Hilversum Session

Sunny Murray Trio

Live At Moers Festival

Sunny Murray The Untouchable Factor*

Albert Ayler Quintet

Spirits Rejoice

Albert Ayler Trio

Spiritual Unity

Albert Ayler Quartet

The Hilversum Sessions

Sunny Murray Spiritual Ensemble

Live At The Montreux Jazz Festival 1971

2014, LP, Album, Ltd, Num, Unofficial, Art, Sinner Lady Gloria

APPEARANCES +

Sunny's Time Now

2008, 2xDVD-V, Paul Thiltges Distributions

You Think This America

2024, 10xFile, FLAC, Album, Giant Step Arts,

Albert Ayler With Don Cherry

1964 Recordings • First Visit Completed

Cecil Taylor Unit*

Live At Fat Tuesday's, February 9, 1980 • First Visit

Free Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz

Summertime To Spiritual Unity Revisited

2023, CD, Comp, RM, ezz-thetics

Clifford Thornton + Arthur Jones Trio

Ketchaoua To Scorpio By Arthur Jones Revisited

2023, CD, Comp, ezz-thetics,

More Lost Performances Revisited

2023, CD, Comp, ezz-thetics

Atzko Kohashi, Tony Overwater

2023, CD, Album, Jazz In Motion Records,

Mixed To Unit Structures Revisited

2021, CD, Comp, RM, ezz-thetics,

Blasé And Yasmina, Revisited

2021, CD, Comp, ezz-thetics

New York Contemporary Five*

Consequences Revisited

2020, CD, Comp, RM, ezz-thetics,

Albert Ayler Quartet With Don Cherry

European Recordings Autumn 1964 Revisited

2020, 2xCD, Comp, ezz-thetics

Spirits Rejoice & Bells (Revisited)

2020, CD, Comp, RM, ezz-thetics

Albert Ayler Trio 1964*

Prophecy Revisited

The Early Albums Collection

Albert Ayler, Marion Brown, Sonny Simmons, Ronnie Boykins, Sun Ra

ESP在中国 = ESP-Disk' Cassette Boxset

2019, Box, Comp, Ltd + 5xCass, Album, RE, Old Heaven Books, ESP-Disk',

Albert Ayler Quartets 1964*

Spirits To Ghosts Revisited

2019, CD, Comp, RM, ezz-thetics

The Glorious Step

2018, CD, Comp, Musica Jazz,

Mysteries:Untitled

Free Improvisation/Free Jazz

New York Eye And Ear Control

2017, CD, Comp, Musica Jazz

Jacques Thollot

Thollot In Extenso

2017, CD, Album, Nato,

Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz

Nelly Pouget / Jérémie Lenoir

Spirale Danse ~ La Vie En Spirale De Nelly Pouget

2017, DVDr, DVD-V, Promo, Minuit Regards

Roger Willemsen

Willemsen Legt Auf

2017, 9x CD, DVD, Box Set,

Eugene Chadbourne

The Sound Of Genius

2015, CDr, Not On Label

Out Of The Cool Into The Hot

2015, CD, Comp, RM, Impulse!,

Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz

Ted Daniel's Energy Module

Innerconnection

Eric Revis Quartet

In Memory Of Things Yet Seen

Seven Classic Albums

2013, 4xCD, Comp, RM, Real Gone,

The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note - Volume 2

2013, 7xCD, Album, RE, RM + Box, Comp, Black Saint, Soul Note,

Avant-garde Jazz

2013, 12xFile, FLAC, Comp, Muteant Sounds Netlabel,

Free Jazz/Avantgarde/Noise/Free Improvisation/Experimental

Out Of The Cool... Into The Hot

2012, Comp + CD, Album, RM + CD, Album, RM, Not Now Music,

Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz

The World Of Cecil Taylor

ESP-Disk' Fire Music Vol. 1

2011, CD, Rogueart

Jimmy Bennington Trio

Symbols Strings And Magic

2010, CD, Album, CIMP,

Jacques Coursil

Trails Of Tears

Ted Daniel Trio

"The Loft Years" Volume One

2009, CDr, Album, Ltd, Ujamaa Records

Archie Shepp / Bill Dixon

Sunny Murray Trio With John Edwards And Tony Bevan

The Gearbox Explodes!

2008, CD, Album, Foghorn Records, Foghorn Records,

Free Improvisation

2008, CD, Porter Records

2007, 3xCD, Comp, Verve Records,

Ragtime/Dixieland/Swing/Bop/Latin Jazz/Cool Jazz/Hard Bop/Modal/Free Jazz/Soul-Jazz/Bossa Nova/Fusion/Jazz-Rock/Spoken Word/Technical/Interview/Big Band/Chicago Blues

The Impulse Story

Free Jazz/Soul-Jazz/Modal

2005, 3xLP, Comp, Cle, Revenant,

The Complete ESP-Disk' Recordings

2005, CD, Album, RE + CD, Album, RE + CD, Album, RE + CD, ESP-Disk', Abraxas (2),

2004, 10xCD, Comp + Box, Revenant,

Free Jazz/Interview

2004, CD, Album, Doron Jazz,

Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz

The Copenhagen Tapes

2002, CD, Album, Ayler Records

2002, 3xCD, Album, Clean Feed

2002, CD, Album, Limousi

Geh' Langsam Durch Die Alten Gass'n

2001, CD, PAO Records

No Money No Honey

2001, CDr, Album, Hum Ha Records

Paris · Ohraï

2001, CD, Ohrai Records

2000, 3x CD, Box Set,

Free Jazz/Psychedelic Rock/Avantgarde/Free Improvisation

Blasé / Live At The Pan-African Festival

Free Jazz/Soul-Jazz

Tony Overwater, Tony Overwater Trio

Over The Rainbow

1999, XRCD, Album, Ltd, Dig, First Impression Music,

Contemporary Jazz/Smooth Jazz

St. Louis Blues

Wildflowers: The New York Loft Jazz Sessions - Complete

1998, CD, Album, Turtle Records (3)

Francis Marmande

La Cantate Des Chaudrons

1998, CD, Album, Fourbis,

Avant-garde Jazz/Free Improvisation/Contemporary Jazz

The Cecil Taylor Unit / Roswell Rudd Sextet

Live In Greenwich Village - The Complete Impulse Recordings

Free Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz

October Meeting 1991 - Anatomy Of A Meeting

1997, CD, Album, Bimhuis Records,

Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation

Bells – Prophecy

Light Blue - Schlippenbach Plays Monk

The Reform Art Unit

For John Coltrane And Pablo Picasso

1996, CD, Voves Productions

Jazz Loft Sessions

Avant-garde Jazz

1993, CD, Comp, Curcio Musica S.p.A.,

Yasmina / Poem For Malcolm

1989, CD, Album, Gazell (2),

Contemporary Jazz/Modal

Cecil Taylor And Buell Neidlinger

The Complete Candid Recordings Of Cecil Taylor And Buell Neidlinger

Recording NYC. 1986

Contemporary Jazz

1983, 2xLP, Comp, Carrere

Free Jazz !!! (Anni '60: La "Rivolta Nera")

1982, LP, Comp, Base Record, Musica Jazz,

Modern/Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation/Free Jazz

Keshavan Maslak

Loved By Millions

Free Jazz/Free Improvisation

It Is In The Brewing Luminous

New Music: Second Wave

1979, 2xLP, Comp, Savoy Records,

Free Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz

1979, LP, Comp, Savoy Records,

Cecil Taylor / Charles Tolliver / Grachan Moncur* / Archie Shepp

Free Jazz/Post Bop

Sunny Murray's Untouchable Factor*

Wildflowers (The New York Loft Jazz Sessions Sampler)

Wildflowers 1 (The New York Loft Jazz Sessions)

Wildflowers 5 (The New York Loft Jazz Sessions)

1977, Vinyl Terre Haute,

High Won - High Two

Live At The Cafe Monmartre / Nefertiti, The Beautiful One Has Come

Free Jazz/Post Bop

Arista-Freedom Sampler - Free And Easy

1975, LP, Promo, Smplr, Arista, Freedom, Arista, Freedom,

Arista-Freedom Sampler

Gunter Hampel And His Galaxie Dream Band

Journey To The Song Within

Reevaluations: The Impulse Years

Free Jazz/Jazz-Funk

Impulse Energy Essentials (A Developmental And Historical Introduction To The New Music)

1972, 3x Vinyl,

Free Jazz/Modal/Post Bop/Soul-Jazz/Hard Bop

La Saga Héroïque D'Albert Ayler

1971, 2xLP, Comp, Impulse!

Modern Jazz Drums Deluxe

1971, 2xLP, Comp, Impulse!, ABC Records,

Yasmina, A Black Woman / Live At The Panafrican Festival

Free Jazz/African

Live At The Panafrican Festival

Swing Low Sweet Spiritual

François Tusques

Intercommunal Music

1970, 2xLP, Comp, Gat, BYG Records,

Free Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz

Archie Shepp, Chicago Beau

History Of Jazz: Vol. 10

Free Jazz/Free Improvisation

Free Jazz No. 1

1969, LP, Comp, Concert Hall,

1969, LP, Album, Douglas,

Yasmina, A Black Woman

Avant-garde Jazz

Clifford Thornton

The ESP Sampler

1967, Vinyl Black And White Cover,

Free Jazz/Folk Rock/Avantgarde/Lo-Fi/Parody/Avant-garde Jazz/Experimental/Poetry/Monolog/Spoken Word/Free Improvisation

Sampler: Vol. I

1966, LP, Mono, Smplr, ESP-Disk'

Cecil Taylor Jazz Unit*

Nefertiti, The Beautiful One Has Come

Ornette Coleman Trio* / Albert Ayler Quintet

Sadness / Holy Family

1965, 7", ESP-Disk'

The New Wave In Jazz

Free Jazz/Modal

Bill Dixon 7-Tette / Archie Shepp And The New York Contemporary 5*

Bill Dixon 7-Tette / Archie Shepp And The New York Contemporary 5

Live At The Cafe Montmartre

Free Jazz/Free Improvisation

The Gil Evans Orchestra*

Sainkho Namchilak* / Grace Yoon / Iris Disse

Tunguska-Guska (Eine Meteoriten-Oper)

CD, Album, Schneeball,

Radioplay/Contemporary

2xLP, Comp, Monkey Records (4), Monkey Records (4),

Jazz Of The 60th - Free Jazz / Volume 20

2xLP, Comp, Monkey Records (4),

The Artistry Of Albert Ayler

LP, Album, RE + LP, Album, RE + Comp, ESP-Disk',

Chick Corea - Dave Holland - Hubert Laws - Woody Shaw - Gato Barbieri / Don Cherry - Albert Ayler - John Handy Quintet - And Many Others*

2xLP, Comp, Curcio

This Is Freedom – Freedom: A Brave New World Of Jazz

LP, Comp, Freedom,

Avant-garde Jazz/Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz

LP, Album, Comp, Promo, Freedom,

Free Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz

Holy Ghost - Vol. 1

LP, Comp, Cle, Revenant

New American Music Volume 1

Beautiful Swimmers Present Don Cherry

OHM Dedication Series #1

2012, File, MP3, Mixed, 320, One-Handed Music

Kids Zomer Hits Top 100

2011, CD, Comp, P/Mixed, Cloud 9 (2),

Europop/Eurodance/House/Pop Rap

The Old New Thing (A Free Jazz Anthology)

2007, 2xCD, Comp, Abraxas (2)

Jazz Styles - History And Analysis (9th Edition)

2006, 2xCD, Comp, Pearson Education,

Henri Mitchell Est Mort !

2006, File, MP3, Mixed, Mixtape, 112, Imp Records (5),

Afrobeat/Alternative Rock/Ambient/Avantgarde/Baroque/Black Metal/Broken Beat/Cool Jazz/Cut-up/DJ/Downtempo/Electro/Emo/Free Jazz/Funk/Grindcore/No Wave/Acoustic/Chanson/Contemporary/Post Rock/Soul/Synth-pop/Tango/Trip Hop/Art Rock

Jazz: The First 100 Years

2002, 2xCD, Comp, Sony Music Special Products,

Croatia Records Presents Jazzette Catalogue

1996, CD, Comp, Promo, Smplr, Croatia Records, Jazzette,

No Smoking, Littering Or Radio Playing: A WNUR Compilation

1993, CD, Album, Comp, WNUR

New American Music Volume 1

1970, LP, Comp, BYG Records,

Free Jazz/Soul/Prog Rock

ESP Commercials

1967, LP, Promo, Smplr, W/Lbl, ESP-Disk'

The ESP Sampler

Arthur Doyle, Sunny Murray

Live At The Tunnel

Albert Ayler Quartet Featuring Don Cherry, Gary Peacock And Sonny Murray*

Sonny's Time Now

Swing Low Sweet Spiritual

The Cecil Taylor Unit / Roswell Rudd Sextet

The Foto-Gram Tapes Vol. 32

1997, Cass, Comp, Unofficial, Not On Label

The Grotto Farm Tapes Vol. 6

1996, Cass, Comp, Unofficial, Not On Label,

Experimental/Ambient/Free Improvisation/Hard Bop/Free Jazz/Folk/Country Blues/Soul-Jazz/Post Bop/Modal/Bop/Avantgarde/Political/Speech/Space-Age

Art Blakey And His Jazz Messengers* - Sonny Murray Quartet*

1995, CD, Unofficial, Editoriale Pantheon,

Hard Bop/Free Jazz

Live In Europe 1964-1966

1991, CD, Unofficial, Landscape

Cecil Taylor Jazz Unit*

The Early Unit 1962

LP, Album, Mono, Ltd, Unofficial, Ingo,

The Contemporary Jazz Quartet Featuring Sonny Murray*

Live In Greenwich Village - The Complete Impulse Recordings