Marion Brown Quartet

Iconic, early ESP disk release. Saxophonist Marion Brown, fresh off of a John Coltrane collab on 1965’s Ascension, presents the world this high offering of free jazz in 1966, simply titled Marion Brown Quartet. A quote from MB:

"It is wrong to say that free jazz does not swing. It swings to a high number of beats. It is polyrhythmic. But it is hard for people listening to it to realize that... Free jazz is closer to African beats than bop or swing were; African rhythm is very complex."