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In 1964, Bernard Stollman launched the independent record label ESP-Disk' in New York City to document the free jazz movement there. A bare-bones enterprise, ESP was in the right place at the right time, producing albums by artists like Albert Ayler, Pharoah Sanders, and Sun Ra, as well as folk-rock bands like the Fugs and Pearls Before Swine. But the label quickly ran into difficulties and, due to the politically subversive nature of some productions and sloppy business practices, it folded in 1974. Always in Trouble tells the story of ESP-Disk' through a multitude of voices—first Stollman's, as he recounts the improbable life of the label, and then the voices of many of the artists involved.

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  1. Cover
  2. pp. c-ii
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  1. Title
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  1. Copyright
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  1. Contents
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  1. Acknowledgments
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  1. A Note on the Photographers
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  1. Introduction
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  1. I What Got into His Head: Bernard Stollman, Founder of the Label
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  1. 1. Who, Where, When: Beginnings and Departures
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  1. 2. Music and Law: Into the Deep End Fast
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  1. 3. The Initial Years
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  1. 4. While It Worked
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  1. 5. Decline and Fall
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  1. 6. On Individual Artists
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  1. 7. About Some Records
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  1. 8. A Word or Two on Recording Engineers
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  1. 9. Close Encounters in the Music Business
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  1. 10. A Short History of Licensing
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  1. 11. In the Wilderness
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  1. 12. Revival
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  1. II ESP-Disk’ as Lived and Witnessed
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  1. Ishmael Reed
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  1. Gunter Hampel
  2. pp. 87-90
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  1. John Tchicai
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  1. Paul Thornton
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  1. James Zitro
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  1. Sonny Simmons
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  1. Gary Peacock
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  1. Milford Graves
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  1. Alan Sondheim
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  1. Tom Rapp
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  1. Warren Smith
  2. pp. 134-139
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  1. Roscoe Mitchell
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  1. Michael Snow
  2. pp. 141-144
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  1. Marion Brown
  2. pp. 145-149
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  1. Richard Alderson
  2. pp. 150-159
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  1. Roswell Rudd
  2. pp. 160-165
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  1. Montego Joe
  2. pp. 166-170
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  1. Evan Parker
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  1. Alan Silva
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  1. Giuseppi Logan
  2. pp. 180-184
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  1. Peter Stampfel
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  1. Burton Greene
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  1. The Coach with the Six Insides: Jean Erdman and Van Dexter
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  1. Leo Feigin
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  1. Erica Pomerance
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  1. Joe Morris
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  1. William Parker
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  1. Ken Vandermark
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  1. Gato Barbieri
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  1. Amiri Baraka
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  1. Michael D. Anderson
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  1. Sal Salgado
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  1. Lindha Kallerdahl
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  1. Sirone
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  1. Sunny Murray
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  1. Marc Albert-Levin
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  1. Jacques Coursil
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  1. Steve Weber
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  1. Steve Stollman
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  1. Images
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  1. Index
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  1. About the Author
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