Hommage To Africa
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. Although Murray could swing as hard as anyone, he often abandoned the drums' traditional timekeeping role. Instead of playing a steady beat, he might punctuate and color behind the soloist's lines, or engage in dialogues with the rest of the ensemble, commenting and conversing with an open-eared sense of give and take.
Hommage to Africa is a bold and inventive example of Sunny's work at it's best.
- Suns Of Africa - Part 1
- Suns Of Africa - Part 1
- R.I.P.
- Unity
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. Although Murray could swing as hard as anyone, he often abandoned the drums' traditional timekeeping role. Instead of playing a steady beat, he might punctuate and color behind the soloist's lines, or engage in dialogues with the rest of the ensemble, commenting and conversing with an open-eared sense of give and take.
Hommage to Africa is a bold and inventive example of Sunny's work at it's best.
Tracklisting
- Suns Of Africa - Part 1
- Suns Of Africa - Part 1
- R.I.P.
- Unity
