esp-disk

here's an int with bernard stollman, cat whose esp-disk label released loads of ground-breaking free jazz, starting with albert ayler and including ornette, sun ra, marion brown, and pharaoh sanders, as well as early hipi (actually late beatnik) shite like the fugs, the godz (immortalized in creem by st. lester), and pearls before swine. inasmuch as ipods 'n' downloading have pretty much rendered rekkids, even cd's, obsolete, it's instructive to read the testimony of a recordman who, on a shoestring, without the intent of making millions, documented crucial music that wouldn't have otherwise been heard.