![]() I already was a fan of Ornette Coleman and others, and he gave me tapes to listen, stuff he did with Reform Art Unit and a concert they did with Burton Green. I knew him personally and got a lot of listening advices from him. In the 70´s and early 80´s the Austrian Free Jazz Icone Fritz Novotny (Reform Art Unit) had his radio show about Free Jazz on ORF Ö1. I have no idea about singles or "hits." Producers of all kinds of LPs in all genres typically wanted strong openers and closers to each LP side. ![]() ![]() I can tell you regarding Arista, their philosophy was that mega sellers like Barry Manilow should underwrite the costs of releasing "art." Those albums were not designed to make money. Were these labels making money on these things? ![]() The era of free jazz on major labels goes on for am incredibly long time: all the way to the late 1970s / over a decade. Was this just an attractive way to sequence an album, or does this reflect actual singles releases? If so, were any of them "hits"? Even if not released as a single, did they get played on the radio or TV? What kind of stations or programmes touched that stuff? It never fails to seem odd to me how many of the classic free jazz records of the earlier waves were released on major labels.Ī lot of free / avant garde jazz records from the 1960s, particularly Archie Shepp's Impulse!s and Braxton's Aristas, are even sequenced like pop records, with what appears to be the catchy "big single" as the first track, and then a B side with lesser or more difficult material.
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