MICHAEL GREGORY JACKSON

UNFETTERED GUITAR  IMPROVISOR SINGER  CONCEPTUALIST COMPOSER  PRODUCER  POET

LATEST RELEASE

‘FREQUENCY EQUILIBRIUM KOAN’ EXPANDED

DOUBLE VINYL LP & CD FROM NEW SUPERIOR SOURCE + 2 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED TRACKS & ‘FUTURE KNOWS THE WAY’ MGJ  POEM BOOK

“If this was a meticulously rehearsed studio album, it would be amazing enough; the fact that it was just one night in the lives of its creators makes it head-spinning.”  – Phil Freeman, The Wire, UK  April 2025 (Issue 494)

“For lauded American guitarist Bill Frisell, the release is much needed:

“I moved to Boston in 1975. One of the first things I did was to go see Michael Gregory Jackson play. I can’t believe that was fifty years ago! I was stunned. I didn’t know what it was. I’d never heard music like that. He opened a window into new possibilities for me. No one plays like that. He inspired me then and he inspires me now.
 
I said before that it (FEK) sounds like the future. It still does. But it sounds like now too.
 
We need this now. Michael Gregory Jackson, Abdul Wadud, Pheeroan aKLaff, and Julius Hemphill all together!
 
Masters.
 
This is a treasure. I’m thankful there is evidence.
 
I really hope more folks will have a chance to hear this music. Now more than ever.
 
We need this.
 
Thank you, Michael.” 

– Bill Frisell, 2/2025

“Michael Gregory Jackson relays how Frequency Equilibrium Koan Expanded came into existence:

"In 2024 I was contacted by Antony Inglis Hall of Moved by Sound Records, he wanted to release my previously digital only release of Frequency Equilibrium Koan in vinyl and CD on his label. 

I was happy to hear from him; I was aware of the fine music and dedication to high quality music he had released previously and his attention to detail. I knew a few of the artists and projects, Sirone, Black Artist Group with my mentor and life long friend Oliver Lake, and Jeanne Lee.

I said yes! 

A few days after we spoke I was going thru a box of tapes that I have of my many concerts over the years, most recorded with my ever present Sony field recorder that I had kept on the stage. After listening to just a minute of an unlabeled tape I realized that it was the same concert at the Ladies Fort 1977 of FEK that I released digitally on my BANDCAMP site in February 2021. But the sound on this tape was much better, it was a much higher quality recording, one of the tracks was longer, and it contained two additional previously unreleased pieces! 

Universal intervention or happy coincidence? 

I contacted Antony to inform of him my find. Antony, without hesitation, enthusiastically said, "well I guess we'll have to make it a double album then". 

So here we are! 

Moved By Sound is an independent label dedicated to preserving and promoting visionary music across eras and genres. By reissuing rare and essential recordings, the label seeks to amplify the voices of pioneering artists and bring their music to new audiences worldwide. 
https://moved-by-sound.bandcamp.com/