With Don Cherry, Gary Peacock, and Sunny Murray.
Twenty-one recordings — including the Ghosts LP — from September and November 1964, in the wake of Spiritual Unity; live at Club Montmartre in Copenhagen, Denmark, and at a radio station in Hilversum, Netherlands.
Fierce, ecstatic, awe-inspiring music.

Crucial live and radio recordings with Don Cherry, Sonny Murray and Gary Peacock.

The first time out for recordings in Munich and Helsinki — featuring beautifully succinct renditions of the tunes — plus the Rotterdam concert included in the Holy Ghost box set, all rendered here in the improved quality of sound which is Ezz-Thetics’ raison d’être.

Two stone classic LPs from 1964: Witches And Devils aka Spirits — with terrific playing by Sunny Murray and Henry Grimes, plus Norman Howard and Earle Henderson — and Vibrations aka Ghosts, with Murray and Gary Peacock from the Spiritual Unity session the same year, plus Don Cherry hard-wired straight into the mains.
Surrealists go on about ‘convulsive beauty’. Surely this is it, no frills.
Way too spiritual and too jazz to pass for Spiritual Jazz.
Smartly presented, with re-mastered sound, excellent notes, and royalties going to the Ayler estate.

Two ace LPs: Marion Brown Quartet on ESP in 1966, after Brown’s breaking through on   Ascension and Shepp’s Fire Music the previous year; and Juba-Lee, a septet recording out on Fontana in 1967.
With Wayne’s brother Alan Shorter in full effect on trumpet (and in the compositions), Bennie Maupin making a very early appearance, the great Grachan Moncur, Dave Burrell, Reggie Johnson, Ronnie Boykins, Rashied Ali and Beaver Harris.

Marion Brown’s family runs a loving Instagram account.

While a decent reissue of these two somewhat lesser known albums is certainly welcome, this disc’s main attraction is the inclusion of both sides of an extremely scarce 7” single recorded in Jul 1969 and (for reasons unclear) released by Impulse! in France only. Written to commemorate the Apollo 11 US moon landing that same month, Man On The Moon achieves a suitably futuristic vibe thanks to the contribution of Dr Emmanuel Ghent, a psychologist and pioneer of computer-generated electronic music, here credited with playing ‘electronic devices’.
As drummer Ed Blackwell clatters out an urgent, armour plated free-bop sprint, Ghent’s weird robo-chatters and space whispers meld with Ornette’s alto. Redman’s tenor and Cherry’s trumpet for three frantic minutes. The B side Growing Up is a two minute free ballad with Blackwell lurching around the kit, Haden sawing out a mournful arco and Ornette leading a sweetly wistful call, answered by three-horned responses. A rare cut from the jukebox of your dreams.