Friday, October 30, 2009

Tell Us Your ESP Story!: Give us your ESP story and get a free CD!
Everybody has an ESP story. That one record that floored you and chang..
New Vinyl Available for Pre-Order: The ESP-Disk’ vinyl reissue program continues with two incredible releases: ESP 1017 – Sun Ra – ..
Currently listening to Michael Hurley - Parsnip Snips...Bernard is loving it.
Listening to some Tom Rapp

Thursday, October 29, 2009

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Just listened to Bruce Haack's National Anthem to the Moon. What a song!
I should say zoning out to Spiral Joy band
Listening to Spiral Joy Band
Listening to Randy Burns: http://ping.fm/8qyBQ
Listening to Fred Anderson – 60 Degrees in November
Talibam! Charts on WCBN-FM: “in soviet russia, music charts you”
1. Heavy Trash “Midnight Soul Serenade” Fat Possum
2. Various “Well Hung..

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Currently Listening to Alan Silva & Burton Greene
If you have a large collection of original ESP-Disk' LPs, get in touch with us at info@espdisk.com
Currently listening to Lee Fields & the Expressions
Check out this great youtube video of Paul Thornton (of the Godz): http://ping.fm/mMJ58
Currently Listening to Yuganaut: http://ping.fm/pzLoh
Sirone Tribute on WFMU: Artist Track Album Label Grachan Moncur III Hipnosis Ex-Cocaine Split 12″ w/ Yellow Swans Not Not Fun Mark ..
Joe Morris & Others Pay Tribute to Lowell Davidson: First things first: this is not jazz. Pianist/composer Lowell Davidson recorded one C..

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

the artist alone decides...
Currently listening to Sun Ra: http://ping.fm/xT5UK
Listening to Jimi Hendrix - Blues
Sirone Remembered on Blog To Comm: R.I.P. Norris Jones, a.k.a. Sirone Just so you found it out through me rather than some dope, let me b..
Gato Barbieri Reviewed in Elmore Magazine:
A Tribute to Sirone: News has just emerged that the bassist Sirone (Norris Jones) died in Berlin on Wednesday, at the age of 69. So, anot..

Monday, October 26, 2009

Listening to Noah Howard Quartet: http://ping.fm/ljFTw
Listening to Pharoah's First: http://ping.fm/TBNqw
Miles Davis's Honky Tonk...'nuff said
Listening to "330,003 Cross Dressers from Beyond the Rig Veda " by Sun City Girls: http://ping.fm/2o3ZB
Currently listening to Ornette Coleman - New York Is Now!

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Sirone, ‘Revolutionary’ Bassist, Dies: by Lars Gotrich The world has lost another tie to the original New Thing jazz: bassist and compose..

Friday, October 23, 2009

Off to the WFMU record fair...see ya there!
ESP-Disk’ Featured on the Sidebar (Asthmatic Kitty): This week I have invited Chris Schlarb to comment on legendary label ESP-Disk. I fel..

Thursday, October 22, 2009

We just got word that Sirone passed away in Berlin. His music touched all of our lives. RIP
Listening to Magik Markers
Listening to Thee Oh Sees.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Listening to His Name Is Alive
Listening to Tommy Jay's Columbus Discount LP: http://ping.fm/8KLGc
Theeeeeee Record Fair is coming! http://ping.fm/MpGva
Listening to NNCK
Currently listening to the Boss Blues (the group that eventually turned into Cromagnon)
Joe Morris’s Colorfield Reviewed in JazzTimes: The representation of dark and light multicolored, rectilinear painted shapes envelops the..

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Three Cheers for Humanity (And Jazz Critics): This is a nice story about a jazz musician that we respect very much. It is wonderful to he..
Take a Peek at our upcoming live shows schedule for ESP artists: http://ping.fm/wBaph
Listening to Gogol "go go" Bordello
Currently listening to Horace Andy

Monday, October 19, 2009

Untitled: Cascading celestes. Psycho percussion pounding precariously. Squealing saxes & speaking flutes; poignant piano and space ch..
Joe Morris Featured in All About Jazz: By Tad Hendrickson A jazz artist who balances a sharp ear for melody with an intellect inspired by..
Listening to the test pressing of Patty Waters - College Tour. It sounds amazing.
Listening to Talibam!: http://ping.fm/fNci8
Ronnie Boykins on United Mutations: Ronnie Boykins played the bass in the Sun Ra Arkestra.
He also worked with Marion Brown, Bill Barron,..
Currently listening to Ronnie Self

Friday, October 16, 2009

Untitled: ESP-Disk’ LIVE The Bowery Poetry Club Tuesday, October 20th 10pm Bruce Eisenbeil’s TOTEM> (ESP 4046) Bruce Eisenbeil ..
"You've Never Heard Such Sounds in Your Life"
Currently listening to Tomahawk
Listening to Fred Neil

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Mij’s Yodeling Astrologer Reviewed in Shindig! Magazine: Originally issued on ESP-Disk as an extremely limited pressing, Mij’s lone outin..
“Freedom Rhythm & Sound” Review in Jazzwise Magazine: Freedom Rhythm and Sound, a new book compiled by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker a..
ESP-Disk’ Featured in New Book, “Freedom Rhythm & Sound”: Freedom, Rhythm and Sound BOOK By Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker Soul Jazz Re..
Save the Date: Benefit & Reunion Concert November 8th: 45 years of ESP A benefit concert for the Jazz Foundation in celebration of the ar..

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

ESP-Disk’ Encounters
But the Red's for the blood we lose
The White's for the gauze they use
To cover burned-out blackened men
The rest is for the bodies numb and Blue
Mij’s Yodeling Astrologer Reviewed in Shindig! Magazine: Originally issued on ESP-Disk as an extremely limited pressing, Mij’s lone outi..
Now listening to My Cat Is An Alien (their Mort Aux Vaches release)
“Freedom Rhythm & Sound” Review in Jazzwise Magazine: Freedom Rhythm and Sound, a new book compiled by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker ..
We're listening to the excellent "New Morning" by Bob Dylan
Save the Date: Benefit & Reunion Concert November 8th: 45 years of ESP A benefit concert for the Jazz Foundation in celebration of the a..
ESP-Disk’ Featured in New Book, “Freedom Rhythm & Sound”: Freedom, Rhythm and Sound BOOK By Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker Soul Jazz R..

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Listening to Yuganaut: http://ping.fm/kHXdb
http://ping.fm/MWfXW
Listening to Burton Greene: http://ping.fm/ieVZG
"All I Want to Do, Is Lay in the Sun"
Currently Listening to Fela Kuti's "Colonial Mentality"
We just sold out of Sun Ra's Heliocentric Worlds, Vol. One vinyl reissue
Currently Listening to the Other Tet: Bill Lowe, Taylor Bynum, Joe Morris & Kwaku Obeng
ESP-Disk’ Mentioned in the Isthmus Daily Page: Rain Machine, Sharon Van Etten When: 10/15/09 @ 9:00pm Cost: $17 ($15 adv.; 18+)
Call: 25..

Monday, October 12, 2009

Listening to Noble/Edwards/Ward - Deadeye Tricksters on Bo'Weavil: http://ping.fm/GtWd4
Interview: Alan Sondheim: Alan Sondheim Interview: Alan Sondheim Netfilmmakers are presenting Alan Sondheim (US) and his artwork What Re..
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Currently listening to Patty Waters: http://ping.fm/wuO2F
Revolutionary Ensemble Review on Gapplegate: The late Leroy Jenkins was the primary violinist to come upon the American free jazz scene ..
Fred Anderson Review on chriskelsey.com: Appar­ently, min­i­mal­ism ain’t just an area of clas­si­cal music pio­neered by La Monte Young..
Naked Future Review in The Wire: November 2009
Arrington de Dionyso / The Naked Future (ESP 4053)

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Record Fair & Festival Report: ESP has been making the rounds to all regional music festivals that deal in the avant during the last cou..
ESP Supports the 4th Annual Chicago Calling Festival: For the second year in a row, ESP is a proud sponsor of the Chicago Calling Festiv..
ESP-Disk’ Announces Expanded Live Schedule: ESP is back with more great shows and we strongly urge you to come out and see the magic fir..

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Don Cherry Featured in All About Jazz: Don Cherry: From Out of the Shadows By Raul d’Gama Rose It was cool in Bombay that July in ..
Charles Tyler Review on Gapplegate Music: After a significant association with Albert Ayler’s band in 1965, where he was present o..

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Around the Store with ESP 10/04/2009: Always one to buck the trends, especially when those trends can be a rather painful (or overstated..

Monday, October 5, 2009

Review of ESP-Disk’s In-House Record Store Opening: ESP 4053
Naked Future – Gigantomachia as well as…
ESP 4056
Joe Morris &#..
Naked Future Live Footage!: ESP 4053
Naked Future – Gigantomachia Press & Airplay for Naked Future

Friday, October 2, 2009

ESP-Disk’ Featured in Uni Magazine from the Czech Republic: click on the image for hi res The following is translated from Czech to Engl..
Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vol. 1 Vinyl Reissue Review on Gapplegate Music: ESP 1014
Sun Ra – The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun R..

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Timothy Leary in the Mixxx: ESP 1027
Timothy Leary – Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out Beautiful Swimmers – Lifeguardians hand-mixe..