Live at Moers Festival

Live at Moers Festival
Live at Moers Festival
Live album by Sunny Murray
Released	1979
Recorded	June 3, 1979
Venue	Moers Festival, Moers, Germany
Genre	Free jazz
Length	48:18
Label	Moers Music; Momu 01054
Producer	Burkhard Hennen
Sunny Murray chronology

Live at Moers Festival is a live album by drummer Sunny Murray. It was recorded in June 1979 at the Moers Festival in Moers, Germany, and was released later that year by Moers Music. On the album, Murray is joined by saxophonist and bass clarinetist David Murray, and bassist Malachi Favors, and percussionist Cheikh Tidiane Fall.^[1]^[2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz	^[5]

The editors of AllMusic awarded the album 3 stars.^[3]

The authors of the

Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings awarded the album 3½ stars, and wrote: "The leader's playing... remains utterly distinctive, using a simple kit to create waves of rhythm and colour, dispersing marked time and controlling without dominating all the different areas of the music. David Murray is at something near his early, blistering best and, while the music is more a jam session than a charted course, the four themes provide enough material for the group to roister along. The in-concert sound is no more than acceptable, but the excitement survives any fidelity problems."^[4]

Track listing

All compositions by Sunny Murray.

"Sweet Lovely" – 9:27
"German Dilemma" – 15:01
"Tree Tops" – 8:15
"Happiness Tears" – 14:00

Personnel

Sunny Murray – drums
David Murray – tenor saxophone, bass clarinet
Malachi Favors – double bass, percussion
Cheikh Tidiane Fall – congas
Recorded on June 3, 1979, at the Moers Festival in Moers, Germany.

References

^ "Sunny Murray: Live at Moers Festival". Jazz Music Archives. Retrieved April 23, 2022.
^ "Sunny Murray: Live at Moers Festival". AllMusic. Retrieved April 22, 2022.
^ ^a ^b Erlewine, Michael; Bogdanov, Vladimir; Woodstra, Chris; Yanow, Scott, eds. (1996). All Music Guide to Jazz (2nd ed.). Miller Freeman. p. 547.
^ ^a ^b Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (1992). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, LP and Cassette. Penguin Books. p. 797.
^ Larkin, Colin (1999). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz. Virgin Books. p. 634.

[1] "Sunny Murray: Live at Moers Festival". Jazz Music Archives. Retrieved April 23, 2022.

[2] "Sunny Murray: Live at Moers Festival". AllMusic. Retrieved April 22, 2022.

[allmusic-3] Erlewine, Michael; Bogdanov, Vladimir; Woodstra, Chris; Yanow, Scott, eds. (1996). All Music Guide to Jazz (2nd ed.). Miller Freeman. p. 547.

[penguin-4] Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (1992). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, LP and Cassette. Penguin Books. p. 797.

[5] Larkin, Colin (1999). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz. Virgin Books. p. 634.

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v t e Sunny Murray
Studio albums	Sonny's Time Now (1965) Sunny Murray (1966) Sunshine (1969) Big Chief (1969) Homage to Africa (1970) An Even Break (Never Give a Sucker) (1970) Sonic Liberation Front Meets Sunny Murray (2010) I Stepped Onto a Bee (2011)
Live albums	Charred Earth (1977) Live at Moers Festival (1979) Illuminators (1996) Homework (1997) We Are Not at the Opera (1998) Home Cooking in the UK (2004) Perles Noires (2005) The Gearbox Explodes! (2008) Boom Boom Cat (2011)