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Byard Lancaster
The Complete Palm Recordings 1973 - 1974

SOUFFLE CONTINU RECORDS  |  FFLBOX002  |  LP-Box

5LP+12”+7” DEFINITIVE DELUXE PACKAGE
FEATURING ALL FOUR ORIGINAL ALBUMS RESTORED & REMASTERED WITH 4 PAGE-PORTFOLIO AND EXCLUSIVE OBI STRIP

+ EXCLUSIVE ONE SIDED 12” EP WITH SCREEN PRINT ON SIDE B
+ EXCLUSIVE 20-PAGE BOOKLET WITH RARE PHOTOS & IN-DEPTH ARTICLE
ABOUT BYARD LANCASTER’S PARISIAN YEARS BY PIERRE CREPON

CAREFULLY RESTORED AND REMASTERED BY GILLES LAUJOL
GRAPHIC DESIGN BY STEFAN THANNEUR
LICENSED FROM PALM / GENEVIEVE QUIEVREUX

LTD. RUN OF 700 COPIES

At 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: It’s Not Up To Us. The following year he came to Paris in the wake of… Sunny Murray. He would come back to France in 1971 (again with Murray) and in 1973 (without Murray for a change). This is when he met Jef Gilson, the pianist and producer who encouraged him to record under his own name again.
On Palm Records (Gilson’s label), he would release four albums: Us, Mother Africa, Exactement and Funny Funky Rib Crib.



1. Mc Call All (Us)
2. Flore (Us)
3. John II (Us)
4. Us (Us)
5. Just Test (Us)
6. We the Blessed (Mother Africa)
7. Mother Africa (Mother Africa)
8. "Sweet Evil Miss" Kissianga (Exactement)
9. Virginia (Exactement)
10. C. Marianne Alicia (Exactement)
11. Dr. Oliver W. Lancaster (Exactement)
12. Palm Sunday (Exactement)
13. Prima - Mr. A. A. (Exactement)
14. Keno Exactement (Exactement)
15. Providence Baptist Church (Exactement)
16. Just Test (Funny Funky Rib Crib)
17. Work and Pray (Funny Funky Rib Crib)
18. Rib Crib I (Funny Funky Rib Crib)
19. Rib Crib II (Funny Funky Rib Crib)
20. Loving Kindness (Funny Funky Rib Crib)
21. Dogtown (Funny Funky Rib Crib)
22. Love Always