My father was a garbageman for the city of Berkeley, and he had to go to work at 5:30 in the morning. Genres: Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz, Post-Bop. He was the Coltrane of the West Coast. The following recollections are in Murray’s own words, edited slightly for space and clarity.I made a bunch of jazz albums, so I decided to try something different. Label: DIW - DIW-879 • Format: CD Album • Country: Japan • Genre: Jazz • Style: Contemporary Jazz David Murray Octet - Picasso (1993, CD) | Discogs Explore
There’s jazz in all those albums, though; you have to hear that.
He’s the first to admit that the results vary in quality, but it’s the ones he didn’t record that Murray regrets: “I don’t need to document every minute, but I’d write some music, do six weeks on the road playing the music, come back and do the Vanguard and Sweet Basil, and the next week I’m in the studio. I’ve done a lot of records on my own, but I’ve never had so much advice. Playing with Jack was a wonderful experience, but I couldn’t stay long because Jack wanted you to conform to Jack, and after a while I wanted to move on.Blood used to say, “All you saxophone players out here, y’all can say anything you want about David Murray, but David Murray is one of the only cats out here that’s free.” I dug the fact that he understood that that’s what I’m trying to do. David Murray discography and songs: Music profile for David Murray, born 19 February 1955. (By the time his Guinness arrived as we talked, Murray had eyed the ideal spot for a temporary stage near our table.
The gig I really wanted was with Charlie Mingus. I used to have to make them watch him. I met Hamiet Bluiett there, Frank Lowe, all the East Side guys, all the downtown cats and uptown cats, too; some of them were bebop cats, but most of them were what they call in New York the “outcats.” I met all the outcats in one day, and I learned something that day: I learned that in New York City, if you’re going to be associated with these guys, the first thing I had to learn was to play loud.JazzTimes is honored to premiere the video for...That was a scene. The higher the quality of jazz musicians, the less they’d look at him. I wanted George Adams’ gig, but I wasn’t old enough to be in that band while Mingus was healthy. He ended up serving a stint in the Navy and working a variety of jobs to provide for his family, from garbageman to circus acrobat, and instilled the same drive in his son.Still, the hustle persisted: Murray kept a pair of skates in his backpack to facilitate covering more ground while hanging gig fliers around the city. We were growing up in this environment. A lot of people don’t know that’s what I’m trying to do.
“Never say you can’t do something, because you can learn—and you can learn fast.”I met Olu Dara and a lot of people in trumpeter Ted Daniel’s Energy band. His style was out of Sunny Murray’s style. But it ended up being just a band in thirds. Find David Murray discography, albums and singles on AllMusic. David Murray Flowers for Albert (India Navigation, 1976) Murray, tenor saxophone; Olu Dara, trumpet; Fred Hopkins, bass; Phillip Wilson, drums Technically, Flowers for Albert was supposed to have been my first release.
I’d have to remind them: “In this band that’s what we do.” That album was probably the highest that we could have went during that time with my big band.Arthur Blythe was one of my gurus. I did my study of Coltrane after I let everybody else get it out of their system. God bless her. I didn’t want to lose a project.
She taught me how to play music on her lap. I was kind of a renegade in the band. Memo, Mehmet and Butch died not so far apart, so Butch is in the mix, too; we did his song “Obe.” So it’s a tribute to more than one thing, but Memo is at the beginning of it.Murray carried that drive from Pomona College to New York City, originally inspired by professor/mentor/early collaborator Stanley Crouch to pursue both music and journalism.
David Murray (born February 19, 1955) is an American jazz musician who plays tenor saxophone and bass clarinet mainly. The powerhouse saxophonist looks back on key entries in his mammoth discographyEverybody wanted to be in Jack’s band. I always considered Sunny the father of avant-garde drumming.
I wasn’t a good sideman, because I always wanted to do my thing.
I wrote the song “Flowers for Albert” after Sunny told me some stuff about Albert Ayler. He could never fucking play, so he got a rock band [Gray] and just played real hard. Albums include Ming, Home, and Wildflowers: The New York Loft Jazz Sessions - Complete.
He undertook an independent study to interview artists like Cecil Taylor, McCoy Tyner, Ornette Coleman and John Cage, but it was Dewey Redman’s advice to “put down the pencil and pick up your saxophone” that he ultimately heeded. The first memory I have of music is playing on the floor, in between my mom’s legs, as she was trying to learn how to play the Hammond organ.
I had this song, “Perfection,” in my library for a long time. A lot of people were like, “Why you got this guy conducting the band?” And I said, “Well, does it sound different than other people’s bands?” The purists didn’t like it, and the purist musicians wouldn’t watch him.
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