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Byard LancasterSteve McCallSylvin Marc

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Legendary saxophonist Byard Lancaster fuses free jazz and soul! Great black music masterpiece “Us” is now available in a deluxe edition!In the early 1960s, at Berklee College of Music, Lancaster met such unique colleagues as Sonny Sherlock and Dave Burrell, and this encounter quickly drew him into the world of free jazz.Upon moving to New York City, Lancaster joined the Sunny Murray Quintet, and went on to record with drum innovator Sunny Murray on his leader’s works.In 1968, he released his first album under his own name, It’s Not Up To Us. The following year, 1969, he followed Sunny Murray to Paris and revisited France in 1971 and 1973. At this time, pianist and producer Jeff Gilson encouraged him to record under his own name again, which led to the release of four more albums on Palm Records: “Us,” “Mother Africa,” “Exactement,” and “Funny Funky Rib Crib.The first o