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

by Jason Weiss

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819571598
• ISBN13: 9780819571595
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher