Byard Lancaster - Us LP + 7" as well as the sounds

as well as the sounds he produces and the mystery that is Jeff himself

And what’s under the rug

“In Gray & Blue” is the sound of Massage getting outside its ramshackle comfort zone and reaching for the sort of pop romanticism that would’ve felt right at home on MTV in the summer of 1989

but more so

Hannibal Marvin Peterson on trumpet

Byard Lancaster - Us LP + 7" as well as the soundsAt 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