BYARD LANCASTER - Mother Africa CD Death Rock with acclaim for the band

with acclaim for the band coming mostly post-breakup

as Johnson"s voice swooped through fresh ranges

through harmony

It was born out of a misunderstanding between him and the India Navigation producer Bob Cummins

Tom Halstead and Joe Andrews) out via AD 93 on the 25th October

BYARD LANCASTER - Mother Africa CD Death Rock with acclaim for the bandAt the beginning of the 1960s, at the Berklee College of Music, Byard Lancaster met some feisty friends: Sonny Sharrock, Dave Burrell and Ted Daniel. It is easy to see why he rapidly became involved in free jazz. Once he was settled in New York, he appeared on Sunny Murray Quintet, recorded under the leadership of the drum crazy colleague of Albert Ayler. In 1968, the saxophonist and flutist recorded his first album under his own name: Its Not Up To