Always in Trouble
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You never heard such sounds in your life
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.
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Acknowledgments A Note on the Photographers Introduction WHAT GOT INTO HIS HEAD: BERNARD STOLLMAN, FOUNDER OF THE LABEL IN THE GREAT BEFORE Who, Where, When: Beginnings and Departures Music and Law: Into the Deep End Fast THE RISE AND FALL AND PERSISTENT RESURRECTION OF A CURIOUS RECORD COMPANY The Initial Years While It Worked Decline and Fall On Individual Artists About Some Records A Word or Two on Record Engineers Close Encounters in the Music Business A Short History of Licensing In the Wilderness Revival ESP-DISK' AS LIVED AND WITNESSED Ishmael Reed Gunter Hampel John Tchicai Paul Thornton James Zitro Sonny Simmons Gary Peacock Milford Graves Alan Sondheim Tom Rapp Warren Smith Roscoe Mitchell Michael Snow Marion Brown Richard Alderson Roswell Rudd Montego Joe Evan Parker Alan Silva Giuseppi Logan Peter Stampfel Burton Greene The Coach with the Six Insides: Jean Erdman and Van Dexter Leo Feigin Erica Pomerance Joe Morris William Parker Ken Vandermark Gato Barbieri Amiri Baraka Michael D. Anderson Sal Salgado Lindha Kallerdahl Sirone Sunny Murray Marc Albert-Levin Jacques Coursil Steve Weber Steve Stollman Index Photographs also included
