Wednesday, September 21, 2005

ESP Disk Hooks WUOG Up

I e-mailed ESP Disk, one of the more overlooked avant-garde jazz & rock record labels making its way back into consciousness, a couple weeks ago to see if they'd send WUOG (we have real-time playlists now! check 'em out) their latest Marion Brown and Sonny Simmons reissues. Imagine my surprise today when Grant (WUOG's current music director) shoots Phillip and I an e-mail saying we got a load of ESP CDs to review! Some we already own and have spun this past summer, so we happily split those up between us, but here's what we got:
+ Marion Brown- Marion Brown
+ Sonny Simmons- The Complete ESP Disk Recordings 2xCD
+ Pharoah Sanders- Pharoah's First Quintet
+ Sun Ra- Heliocentric Worlds Volumes 1, 2, & 3
+ an Albert Ayler live disc
+ Ed Askew (psychedelic folk)
+ at least 6 I don't remember right now

I'm confident this influx of great jazz will infuriate the pop mold of WUOG DJs, but they'll have to deal. Think of it this way: I have to deal with the crappy pale-imitation indie-pop they play. Fair trade, I think.

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