BYARD LANCASTER - Mother Africa LP Book mental illness (“Moon-Driven Sea”)

mental illness (“Moon-Driven Sea”)

and the cover painting from Ypsilanti artist Jim Cherewick hints at Riverbed's uncommon colors and personality

her original fiddle tunes

Parker’s ETA ensemble evolved from a band that played mostly standards into a group known for its transcendent

or the buzzsaw-sharp electric blues of the Black-Eyed Snakes

BYARD LANCASTER - Mother Africa LP Book mental illness (“Moon-Driven Sea”)At 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 on 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: Its Not Up To