Homage to Africa

Homage to Africa
Studio album by
Sunny Murray
Released1970
RecordedAugust 15, 1969
StudioStudio Saravah, Paris
GenreFree jazz
Length28:31
LabelBYG Actuel
529.303
Sunny Murray chronology
Big Chief
(1969) 		Homage to Africa
(1970) 		An Even Break (Never Give a Sucker)
(1970)

Homage to Africa (also released as Hommage to Africa[1]) is an album by American free jazz drummer Sunny Murray. It was recorded in Paris in August 1969, and released on the BYG Actuel label in 1970. On the album, Murray is joined by saxophonists Roscoe Mitchell, Archie Shepp and Kenneth Terroade, trumpeter Lester Bowie, cornetist Clifford Thornton, trombonist Grachan Moncur III, vocalist Jeanne Lee, pianist Dave Burrell, bassist Alan Silva, and percussionists Malachi Favors, Earl Freeman, and Arthur Jones.[2]

The album was recorded as part of a marathon week-long BYG session which also produced Murray's Sunshine as well as albums by artists such as Archie Shepp (Yasmina, a Black Woman, Poem for Malcolm, and Blasé), the Art Ensemble Of Chicago (Message to Our Folks and Reese and the Smooth Ones), Grachan Moncur III (New Africa), Alan Silva (Luna Surface), Dave Burrell (Echo), Andrew Cyrille (What About?), and Jimmy Lyons (Other Afternoons).[3][4]

  1. ^ "Hommage to Africa - Sunny Murray". BYG Records. Retrieved February 3, 2022.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference allmusic was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "BYG Records: Story". BYG Records. Retrieved January 21, 2022.
  4. ^ Robson, Britt (October 27, 2015). "The Greatest Week in the History of Avant-Garde Jazz". Red Bull Music Academy. Retrieved January 21, 2022.