Murray played and recorded with many giants of the avant-jazz genre, most regularly Cecil Taylor, who got Murray his start on the New York experimental jazz scene after moving to the city from his hometown of Philadelphia, and Albert Ayler, with whom Murray played on many of the saxophonist’s defining and more acerbic LPs. Murray also collaborated with John Coltrane, Art Blakey, Sonny Rollins, Max Roach, Gil Evans, trumpeter Don Cherry and saxophonist Archie Shepp.

In the late ’60s, Murray began to record as a bandleader on various labels, bolstering his reputation as one of his scene’s most inventive and explosive drummers, flouting the conventions of time and form that had defined the genre prior to the 1960s. Murray later moved to Paris, which is where he lived up until the end of his life. In 2008, a French documentary about Murray’s life,Sunny’s Time Now, was released.

You can watch the film  http://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/play/8970/SUNNY-S-TIME-NOW" rel="nofollow - here , and read a comprehensive interview with Murray  http://www.paristransatlantic.com/magazine/interviews/murray.html" rel="nofollow - here . Check out some selections from his catalogue below.

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