Sunny Murray

Biography

Sunny Murray (1936-2017) was an American free-jazz drummer from Idabel, Oklahoma, who redefined the instrument's role in the music of *Cecil Taylor* and *Albert Ayler*, replacing timekeeping with waves of pulse and colour. A leader in his own right from 'Sonny's Time Now' (1965), he spent his later decades based in Paris and recorded widely across Europe in his final years.