Sunny Murray
James Marcellus Arthur "Sunny" Murray (born September 21, 1936 in Idabel, Oklahoma) is one of the pioneers of the free jazz style of drumming.
Biography
Murray spent his youth in Philadelphia before moving to New York City where he began playing with Cecil Taylor: "We played for about a year, just practicing, studying — we went to workshops with Varèse, did a lot of creative things, just experimenting, without a job" He was featured on the influential 1962 concerts in Denmark released as Nefertiti the Beautiful One Has Come.
Murray was among the first to forgo the drummer's traditional role as timekeeper in favor of purely textural playing. "Murray's aim was to free the soloist completely from the restrictions of time, and to do this he set up a continual hailstorm of percussion ... continuous ringing stickwork on the edge of the cymbals, an irregular staccato barrage on the snare, spasmodic bass drum punctuation and constant, but not metronomic, use of the sock-cymbal"
After his period with Taylor's group, Murray's influence continued as a core part of Albert Ayler's trio who recorded Spiritual Unity: "Sunny Murray and Albert Ayler did not merely break through bar lines, they abolished them altogether."
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ALBUMS
- The Gearbox Explodes! released: 2007
- Live at the Fundacio Juan Miro released: 2003
- Clapping Music released: 1995
- Kingdom Come released: 1994
- Smoke released: 1990
- Sonny's Time Now released: 1965
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What You Thought You Knew
by: Say No MoreAnd this has got to stop now
I keep running back to you to no avail
A premonition says things will never change
You are so strong
Aren't you now?
That you don't need me
Need me anymore
No more convincing lies
I know what you're trying to say
You're transient, in need of shelter
You wrapped me in the warm embrace
This has got to stop now
It's not what you thought you knew
It's what you didn't know
So luxurious and it's caught you by surprise
So what's his name?
Baby, after all of this time
I deserve to know
No more convincing lies
I know what you're trying to say
You're transient, in need of shelter
You left me in the warm embrace
You're transient, in need of shelter
You wrapped me in the warm embrace
You always seem to watch me go
The figure in your eyes return to stone
After so many goodbyes
You've built ________ for me
Just for me...
No more convincing lies
I know what you're trying to say
You're transient, in need of shelter
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