Huseyin Ertrunc Trio ~ Musiki

Led by drummer Ertunc, with Michael Cosmic (as, cl, fl, bcl, sop, piccolo, organ, perc.) & Phil Musra (ts, ss, fl, zurna, cl, perc.) Musiki is a document of the free jazz recorded in the mid-70s rec in Cambridge Mass.
Phil Musra also performed on the incredible World's Experience Orchestra - Beginning of a New Birth [below]
Not a figure who’s well-known in the jazz (or even avant-garde) community, though his work in the 1970s with his brother, multi-instrumentalist Michael Cosmic, Turkish-born drummer Huseyin Ertunc, and bassist-composer John Jamyll Jones is the stuff of curiosity and possibly legend. Part of what has made their music – available on a small scattering of privately-pressed LPs – so interesting is that it does not sound like anything else. I recently characterized the trio music (without Jones) as something like a collision between the AACM and Alan Sondheim’s Ritual 770 or another, similar wild-and-woolly artists’ collective. The group was based in Boston at the time and also worked with pianist Gene Ashton (now known as Cooper-Moore) and poet-vocalist Ntozake Shange, among others. Apparently Musra and Cosmic also spent time in Chicago studying with AACM musicians (From Clifford Allen)
Read more on Clifford Allen's excellent blog HERE
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