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Always in Trouble: An Oral History of ESP-Disk', the Most Outrageous Record Label in America

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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, ...

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Always in Trouble: An Oral History of Esp-Disk', the Most Outrageous Record Label in America 2012, Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT

ISBN-13: 9780819571595

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