Two box sets of CDs are now being distributed by the Italian company, Abraxas: The Complete Albert Ayler on ESP-DISK and The Complete Sun Ra on ESP-DISK. These were released by this former licensee of ...

What other label would release LPs by Timothy Leary, The Fugs, Giuseppe Logan, Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, Burton Greene & Patty Waters, and Pharoah Sanders—not to mention Bob James’s first wild ...

Bernard Stollman, founder of NYC record label ESP-Disk, has passed away at age 85. The label writes on Facebook: Sad news here at ESP-Disk’. Our beloved founder, Bernard Stollman, passed away last ...

Bernard Stollman, the founder of ESP-Disk, a persistently independent record company that chronicled a full range of the challenging, inventive music of the 1960s, has died. He was 85. The cause of ...

Bernard Stollman was the founder of the New York City-based independent record label ESP-Disk. His label released influential jazz records by artists like Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, ...

Ready for rediscovery by sampler fetishists and retro folkies alike, The Complete ESP-Disk Recordings of North Dakota’s Pearls Before Swine is both precious and perverse. The product of singer, ...

Bernard Stollman died this week at 85. Unknown to most but a legend to many, he was one of the most important non-musicians in the history of the 1960s jazz avant-garde. Stollman, a lawyer, founded ...

Clifford Allen's informative and revealing interview with Sonny Simmons, included with ESP's two-disc reissue of Simmons' first efforts as a leader (Staying on the Watch and Music From the Spheres) ...