Originally released in 1968 on the Vortex Label, this eight-track gem was Lancaster's debut as a leader. Lancaster is a very important musical entity and also very unspoken - his work with Sun Ra, ...

Philadelphia certainly seems to receive only grudging affirmation in relation to other urban centers in the larger cosmology of creative improvised music. It’s a crime considering the fact that a ...

Reissue of fabled 1972 self-titled debut by Philly jazz group and activist collective: Khan Jamal, Byard Lancaster, Monnette Sudler, Billy Mills, Dwight James, Omar Hill and Rashid Salim Originally ...

Sometimes the whole is more than the sum of its parts, and sometimes it is less. The latter is true for this reissue of Live at Macalester College by the Byard Lancaster unit. The music, deftly played ...

Sounds Of Liberation was a band – and a social movement – formed in 1970 out of the Germantown & Mt Airy neighborhoods of Philadelphia. The band consisted of seven members: Khan Jamal (vibraphone), ...

1324; Last Summer; War World; Live at Macalester; World in Me; Thought. Byard Lancaster: horns; J. R. Mitchell: percussion; Calvin Hill: bass; Paul Morrison: electric ...

Byard Lancaster, 70, the Philadelphia jazz musician who earned an international reputation as an avant-garde musical explorer in the 1960s and 1970s, died of cancer Thursday, Aug. 23, at KeystoneCare ...

This week, birthday tributes to Abby Lincoln and Byard Lancaster, solo piano works from Lucian Ban, Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou and Dr. Billy Taylor, Ellington arranges Monk, early works from George Russell ...

PHILADELPHIA, PA - February 22, 2007 - Slife Productions has partnered with jazz legend Byard Lancaster to produce a feature length documentary on Philadelphia jazz. In a unique approach, video clips ...

The great musician, educator, & music~community leader BYARD LANCASTER has been ARRESTED in Philadelphia, where he lives, charged with PLAYING MUSIC ON THE STREET, & has been ordered to appear on ...

1. It's Not Up to Us (Lancaster) - 4:53 2. Last Summer (Lancaster) - 3:25 3. Misty (Burke/Garner) - 5:06 4. John's Children (Sharrock) - 6:12 5. Mr. A. A. (Lancaster) - 4:18 6. Dogtown (Lancaster) - 4 ...