ROBERT LEVIN

Category: 5e) Sunny Murray

• 5) Jazz & Pop Columns, 1970-71: 5e) Sunny Murray JAZZ WRITINGS:

  Sunny Murray: Going outside

  On Taking the Leap from One Reality to Another Sunny Murray is widely regarded as the preeminent drummer of the Free Jazz movement. The “Jeanne” mentioned below was Jeanne Phillips. Although there were, to be sure, significant differences – she was Black, she worked a forty-hour-a-week civil service job and…

  November 28, 2008