Browse by Label: BYG RECORDS

Artist:	MURRAY, SUNNY
Title:	Hommage To Africa
Label:	BYG RECORDS
Format:	LP
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	BYG 303LP

Third volume in the BYG Actuel series; gatefold sleeve, 180 gram vinyl. "After three years as a member of Albert Ayler's band (1964-1967), avant-garde jazz drummer Sunny Murray traveled to France where he recorded for Affinity and BYG. The amazing Homage to Africa was recorded on August 15, 1969 for BYG and features Archie Shepp, Alan Silva, Grachan Moncur III, Lester Bowie, Clifford Thornton, Roscoe Mitchell, Kenneth Terroade and Jeanne Lee."

Artist:	SHEPP, ARCHIE
Title:	Yasmina, A Black Woman
Label:	BYG RECORDS
Format:	LP
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	BYG 304LP

Fourth volume in the BYG Actuel series; gatefold sleeve, 180 gram vinyl. "A great recording session for the French BYG Actuel label dated August 12, 1969. Tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp met up with members of the Chicago avant-garde school including Art Ensemble Of Chicago members Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell and Malachi Favors. Featuring also Dave Burrell, Sunny Murray, Philly Joe Jones, Art Taylor, Clifford Thornton, Earl Freeman among the others."

Artist:	LYONS, JIMMY
Title:	Other Afternoons
Label:	BYG RECORDS
Format:	LP
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	BYG 309LP

Ninth volume in the BYG Actuel series; gatefold sleeve, 180 gram vinyl. "His first outing as a leader (recorded in Paris on August 15, 1969). Jimmy Lyons (alto sax) with Lester Bowie (trumpet), Alan Silva (bass) and Andrew Cyrille (drums). 'Jimmy Lyons is regarded by every musician who played with him as an under-heralded genius. He was the one alto player to take Charlie Parker's classic bop fluidity and drive it into the fire music of first generation free jazz.' -- Thurston Moore and Byron Coley.

Artist:	SILVA AND HIS CELESTRIAL COMMUNICATION ORCHESTRA, ALAN
Title:	Luna Surface
Label:	BYG RECORDS
Format:	LP
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	BYG 312LP

12th volume in the BYG Actuel series; 180 gram vinyl. "Super-session recorded in Paris on August 17, 1969. Alan Silva collected here many of the top free jazz players of the time, an incredible 11-piece ensemble featuring, among others, Grachan Moncur III, Archie Shepp, Anthony Braxton, Dave Burrell, Leroy Jenkins, and Malachi Favors. As a result, this is a very free record and a historical document of Pan-African high art music. Two tracks."

Artist:	BRAXTON, ANTHONY
Title:	B-Xo/NOI47A
Label:	BYG RECORDS
Format:	LP
Price:	$11.50
Catalog #:	BYG 315LP

15th volume in the BYG Actuel series; gatefold sleeve, 180 gram vinyl. "The first one of Braxton's two albums originally released in the BYG/Actuel series... this one was recorded at the Studio Saravah in Paris on September 10th, 1969 with the help of Leo Smith (trumpet), Leroy Jenkins (violin) and Steve McCall (drums)." From the Jazz Actuel boxset's liner notes: "Anthony Braxton's approach to music is a fantastic, almost alchemical fusion of elements, involving academic schemata, chess master logic, and a firm belief in humanist cosmogony... the magic of deep, intuitive jazz improvisation led Mr. Braxton into serious intercourse with the alto saxophone... he was conversant with the concepts and constructs of John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen a.o., yet the music's roots were equally evident as coming from an avant-jazz background... the blend was genuinely revolutionary..." -- Thurston Moore & Byron Coley.

Artist:	MONCUR III, GRACHAN
Title:	New Africa
Label:	BYG RECORDS
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BYG 321LP

21st volume in the BYG Actuel series; gatefold sleeve, 180 gram vinyl. "A wonderful and fairly adventurous recording session that was taped in Paris on August 11, 1969 for one of the first trombonists to explore free jazz. Grachan Moncur III matches ideas with Roscoe Mitchell (alto sax, piccolo), Dave Burrell (piano), Alan Silva (bass), Andrew Cyrille (drums) and (on one of the four pieces) his former boss Archie Shepp (tenor sax). Four tracks."

Artist:	THORNTON, CLIFFORD
Title:	Ketchaoua
Label:	BYG RECORDS
Format:	LP
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	BYG 323LP

23rd volume in the BYG Actuel series; gatefold sleeve, 180 gram vinyl. "This album was recorded in Paris on August 18, 1969 by Clifford Thornton (cornet and conga drums) with Grachan Moncur III (trombone), Archie Shepp (soprano saxophone), Arthur Jones (alto saxophone), Dave Burrell (piano), Sunny Murray (drums), Beb Guerin (bass), Earl Freeman (bass) and Claude Delcloo (drums)." "'Clifford Thornton was a player and a composer whose obscurity was offset by the high esteem in which he was held by his fellow musicians... like Shepp, Thornton was actively involved in advancing the ideology of the black nationalist movement... and all of his recordings are intense and important about those matters that were close to his heart -- liberation, communication and unity." -- Thurston Moore and Byron Coley.

Artist:	ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO
Title:	Reese And The Smooth Ones
Label:	BYG RECORDS
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BYG 329LP

29th volume in the BYG Actuel series; gatefold sleeve, 180 gram vinyl. "Originally released on the French BYG Actuel label, this a classic album recorded in Paris during August 1969 while the Art Ensemble was on its initial stay there with just a quartet featuring Roscoe Mitchell, Lester Bowie, Malachi Favors and Joseph Jarman. Reese And the Smooth Ones has a continuous piece featuring all the members playing lots of little instruments (horns, gongs, logs, bells, sirens, whistles, steel drums, marimba, banjo and more) in addition to their mainstays."

Artist:	CHERRY, DON
Title:	'Mu' Second Part
Label:	BYG RECORDS
Format:	LP
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	BYG 331LP

31st volume in the BYG Actuel series; gatefold sleeve, 180 gram vinyl. "An album recorded at Studio Saravah in Paris on August 22, 1969 by Don Cherry (pocket trumpet, piano, Indian flute, bamboo flute, voice, bells, percussions) with Ed Blackwell (drums, percussions, bell)." "His duets with Ed Blackwell, a drummer whose playing Cherry was very conversant with through a shared history in the Coleman group, were the first recordings released in the Actuel series." --Thurston Moore and Byron Coley.

Artist:	MURRAY, SUNNY
Title:	An Even Break (Never Give A Sucker)
Label:	BYG RECORDS
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BYG 332LP

32nd volume in the BYG Actuel series; gatefold sleeve, 180 gram vinyl. "Avant-garde jazz drummer Sunny Murray was a major player in the experimental jazz community throughout the 1960s. After three years as a member of Albert Ayler's band (1964-1967), Murray traveled to France where, after releasing two LPs on the BYG label, he recorded An Even Break, (recorded on November 22, 1969) for Affinity. Although his first release for the Affinity label, this was Murray's third release of the year! Featuring Byard Lancaster, Malachi Favors and Kenneth Terroade."

Artist:	MONCUR III, GRACHAN
Title:	Aco Dei De Nadrugada
Label:	BYG RECORDS
Format:	LP
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	BYG 333LP

Grey-area exact reissue (previously available on Get Back). Originally issued in the historic BYG Actuel series, around 1970. Title translated: "One Morning I Waked Up Very Early." "One of the first trombonists to explore free jazz, Grachan Moncur III recorded this album at the Studio Saravah in Paris on September 10th and November 4th, 1969. Featuring Fernando Martins (piano), Beb Guerin (bass) and Nelson Serra De Castro (drums). 4 tracks."

Artist:	SHARROCK, SONNY
Title:	Monkey-Pockie-Boo
Label:	BYG RECORDS
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BYG 337LP

Repressed. 37th volume in the BYG Actuel series; gatefold sleeve, 180 gram vinyl. The quintessentail Actuel album and your basic cornerstone of Free Music 101. "An album recorded in Paris (on June 22nd, 1969) with his wife Linda plus Ben Guerin (bass) and Jacques Thollot (drums). Sonny Sharrock was one of the top avant-garde guitarists and his playing was intense and ferocious. He mixed together Jimi Hendrix and Pharoah Sanders." "Sharrock was the first guitarist to really embrace fire music. He wanted his playing to mirror the emotional scream of the tenor saxophone." --Thurston Moore and Byron Coley.

Artist:	SUN RA AND HIS SOLAR-MYTH ARKESTRA
Title:	The Solar-Myth Approach (Vol. 1)
Label:	BYG RECORDS
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BYG 340HLP

Restocked, new pricing. 40th volume in the BYG Actuel series; gatefold sleeve, 180 gram vinyl. "'A wild and passionate interstellar mix of free jazz, solo synthesizer and hard rocking cosmic philosophy specifically commissioned by the BYG/Actuel label (and apparently recorded in New York between 1970 and 1971)... this material 'would prove to be one of the cornerstones of the entire Sun Ra/Arkestra career'... with Kwame Hadi, Akh Tal Ebah, Ali Hassan, Charles Stephens, Marshall Allen, Danny Davis, John Gilmore, Danny Ray Thompson, Pat Patrick, James Jacson, Ronnie Boykins, Clifford Jarvis, Lex Humphries, Nimrod Hunt, June Tyson and Art Jenkins. 'The 2 volumes that form the Solar-Myth Approach encapsulate the creative mood and the impassioned message that was going down as the '60s violently burned themselves out... in the cold dawn of the early '70s Sun Ra and his Solar-Myth Arkestra sent out their musical ray of hope to all who chose to hear it... over 20 years later and its effect remains both blinding and illuminating." -- Edwin Pouncey.

Artist:	MURRAY, SUNNY
Title:	Sunshine
Label:	BYG RECORDS
Format:	LP
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	BYG 348LP

48st volume in the BYG Actuel series; gatefold sleeve, 180 gram vinyl. "This album was recorded in Paris on August 15, 1969 with Lester Bowie, Dave Burrell, Roscoe Mitchell, Archie Shepp, Alan Silva, Malachi Favors, Arthur Jones and Kenneth Terroade. Sunny Murray is 'rightly regarded as jazz's first free drummer. His belief in the drum as an extension of the human soul's vibration allowed him to create a sonic firebed for tonal instruments to dance across. He spent the '60s developing his propulsive, brain-poking style with Albert Ayler, Cecil Taylor and his own groups. The wild sextet Mr. Murray led for this session heralds our entry into the rough and blaring world of high energy." --Thurston Moore and Byron Coley.

Artist:	SHEPP, ARCHIE
Title:	Live at the Panafrican Festival
Label:	BYG RECORDS
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BYG 351LP

Repressed. 51st volume in the BYG Actuel series; gatefold sleeve, 180 gram vinyl. "Striking live performances recorded at the first Panafrican Festival in Algiers during July of 1969. Archie Shepp with a stellar line-up including Clifford Thornton, Grachan Moncur III, Dave Burrell, Alan Silva, Sunny Murray and poets Ted Joans & Don Lee teaming up with Algerian and Touareg musicians for some wonderful and haunting ethno new jazz."

Previous Page Index of Labels Next Page

Artist:	FONTAINE, BRIGITTE/ARESKI
Title:	L'Incendie
Label:	BYG RECORDS
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BYG 026LP

Artist:	SHEPP AND THE FULL MOON ENSEMBLE, ARCHIE
Title:	Live In Antibes (Vol. 1)
Label:	BYG RECORDS
Format:	LP
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	BYG 338LP