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Bermuda-born multi-instrumentalist (bass, cello, violin) Alan Silva was a major player in New York's free jazz revolution & his Free Form Improvisation Ensemble, formed in 1963 with pianist Burton Greene, was arguably the first spontaneous composition group. Silva spent the 1960s at the forefront of the jazz avant-garde, recording & performing with the likes of Bill Dixon (at 1964's legendary Revolution In Jazz concert series), Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler, Sunny Murray, Sun Ra, & Archie Shepp, before finally joining the growing wave of musicians trading in the USA for the more musically open-minded land across the Atlantic. However, before making this transatlantic move, he recorded one last album for ESP-Disk (1970's 'Skillfulless') which prominently displayed Silva's own hypnotic violin weaving in & out of a sublimely dissonant mix of percussion, howling vocals, flute, vibraphone, & the
Bermuda-born multi-instrumentalist (bass, cello, violin) Alan Silva was a major player in New York's free jazz revolution & his Free Form Improvisation Ensemble, formed in 1963 with pianist Burton Greene, was arguably the first spontaneous composition group. Silva spent the 1960s at the forefront of the jazz avant-garde, recording & performing with the likes of Bill Dixon (at 1964's legendary Revolution In Jazz concert series), Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler, Sunny Murray, Sun Ra, & Archie Shepp, before finally joining the growing wave of musicians trading in the USA for the more musically open-minded land across the Atlantic. However, before making this transatlantic move, he recorded one last album for ESP-Disk (1970's 'Skillfulless') which prominently displayed Silva's own hypnotic violin weaving in & out of a sublimely dissonant mix of percussion, howling vocals, flute, vibraphone, & the
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