Byard Lancaster - Mother Africa LP this time on the Palm

this time on the Palm label of Jef Gilson

and exquisite melodies careen with a poetic and renewed vigor here

it's not an elegy to worlds already gone

but the album reaches for more than pastiche

Byard Lancaster - Mother Africa LP this time on the PalmAt the beginning of the 1960s, at the Berklee College of Music, Byard Lancaster met some feisty friends: Sonny Sharrock, Dave Burrell and Ted Daniel. It is easy to see why he rapidly became involved in free jazz. Once he was settled in New York, he appeared with the Sunny Murray Quintet, recorded under the leadership of the drum crazy colleague of Albert Ayler. In 1968, the saxophonist and flutist recorded his first album under his own name: It's Not