Clint Jackson III & Byard Lancaster - Mother Africa Artist_Two Lone Swordsmen The obscure French jazz group

The obscure French jazz group that's been a favorite of funky collectors for years

the pair entered the studio and worked with The Piano Bar

Furious drum’n’glitch beats collide with squalls of guitar noise

Reggae’s thematic throughlines like references to Pan-Africanism

Clint Jackson III & Byard Lancaster - Mother Africa Artist_Two Lone Swordsmen The obscure French jazz groupAt the beginning of the 1960s, at the Berklee College of Music, Byard Lancaster met some feisty friends: Sonny Sharrock, Dave Burrell and Ted Daniel. It is easy to see why he rapidly became involved in free jazz. Once he was settled in New York, he appeared on Sunny Murray Quintet, recorded under the leadership of the drum crazy colleague of Albert Ayler. In 1968, the saxophonist and flutist recorded his first album under his own name: Its Not Up To