Show description for Sunday 10/14/2012 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
In 1964, Bernard Stollman launched the independent record label ESP-Disk’ in New York City to document the free jazz movement there. A bare-bones enterprise, ESP was in the right place at the right time, producing albums by artists like Albert Ayler, Pharoah Sanders, and Sun Ra, as well as folk-rock bands like the Fugs and Pearls Before Swine. But the label quickly ran into difficulties and, due to the politically subversive nature of some productions and sloppy business practices, it folded in 1974. Always in Trouble tells the story of ESP-Disk’ through a multitude of voices—first Stollman’s, as he recounts the improbable life of the label, and then the voices of many of the artists involved.
- “ESP’s
music was startling, and it was unusual to have one company bring out
so many styles of music at once under the same logo. This book takes a
biographical approach to the label, and presents one of the best
accounts I’ve seen of a chaotic, bizarre, and thrilling time.”—John
Szwed, author of Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World
“Always in Trouble brims with lively, revealing stories and anecdotes. A multi-sided look at the legendary ESP record label, it is essential reading for anyone interested in the cultural explosions of the 1960s.”——Nathaniel Mackey, author of Bass Cathedral
| Artist | Song | Album | Label | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bud Powell | Cleopatra's Dream | The Scene Changes | Blue Note | ||
| Cannonball Adderley | Autumn Leaves | Somethin' Else | Blue Note | ||
| Sarah Vaughn | Words Can't Describe | Swingin' Easy | Mercury | ||
| Sarah Vaughn | Pennies From Heaven | Swingin' Easy | Mercury | ||
| Hampton Hawes | Jordu | All Night Session Vol. 1 | Contemporary | ||
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| Bobby Troup | Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby | Bobby Troup & His Stars Of Jazz | RCA | ||
| Zoot Sims featuring Mel Lewis | Brushes | Choice | World Pacific | ||
| Ray Charles | But On The Other Hand Baby | Greatest Hits | ABC - Paramount | ||
| Clark Terry featuring Thelonious Monk | In Orbit | In Orbit | Jazzland | ||
| Red Garland | Take Me In Your Arms | Red's Good Groove | Jazzland | ||
| ========================== Airbreak ========================== | |||||
| Sun Ra | House Of Beauty | The Heliocentric Worlds Of Sun Ra Vol. 2 | ESP-Disk | ||
| Sun Ra | Outer Nothingness | The Heliocentric Worlds Of Sun Ra Vol. 1 | ESP-Disk | ||
| Albert Ayler | Angels | Spirits Rejoice | ESP-Disk | ||
| Gunter Hampel | Assemblage (excerpt) | Assemblage | ESP-Disk | ||
| Ishmael Reed | The Freelance Pallbearers (excerpt) | East Village Other | ESP-Disk | ||
| Sonny Simmons | Staying On The Watch (excerpt) | Staying On The Watch | ESP-Disk | ||
| Alan Sondheim | Ritual All 7 70 (excerpt) | Ritual All 7 70 | ESP-Disk | ||
| William S. Burroughs | Nova Express (excerpt) | Call Me Burroughs | ESP-Disk | ||
| The Fugs | KIll For Peace (excerpt) | The Fugs | ESP-Disk | ||
| ========================== Airbreak ========================== | |||||
| Albert Ayler | Ghosts (First Variation) | Spiritual Unity | ESP-Disk | ||
| John Beecher | Report To The Stockholders | Report To The Stockholders & Other Poems | Folkways | ||
| Charlie Parker | Koko | The Complete Savoy Masters | Savoy | ||
| Coleman Hawkins | Body & Soul | Jive At Five | New World | ||
| Duke Ellington | Ridin' On A Blue Note | Duke Ellington 1938-1940 | Smithsonian | ||
| Duke Ellington | Hip Chic | Duke Ellington 1938-1940 | Smithsonian | ||
| Duke Ellington | Old King Dooji | Duke Ellington 1938-1940 | Smithsonian | ||
| ========================== Airbreak ========================== | |||||
| Steve Lacy | The Forest (excerpt) | The Forest & The Zoo | ESP-Disk | ||
| Interview With Jason Weiss By Justin Desmangles | Interview With Jason Weiss By Justin Desmangles | Interview With Jason Weiss By Justin Desmangles | Interview With Jason Weiss By Justin Desmangles | ||
| Tadd Dameron | Look, Stop, Listen | The Magic Touch | Riverside | ||
| Bud Powell | Blue Pearl (AlternateTake) | Blue Pearl | Blue Note Japan | ||
