ESP recordings: where were they recorded?

[Pim]

Ive noticed that studios are seldomly if not never mentioned. It always says: recorded in NYC. Did ESP Disk use the same studios for recording or is there anything known where those sessions took place?

[Steve Gray]

Judson Hall, I believe

I seem to remember but I may be wrong that there is a photo of Brownie at an esp-disk session at Judson Hall

[B. Clugston]

Many were recorded at Richard Alderson’s RLA Studios,

[romualdo]

also Bell Sound Studios, Millbrook, NY (Timothy Leary), Judson Hall (Ayler SpiritsRejoice), A-1 Sound (Herb Abramson's Studio)

see p61-62 (Ch 😎 of "Always in Trouble" plus p150-159 (section on Richard Alderson)

"The studio where I recorded all the ESP stuff was an abandoned warehouse on West 65th Street, which had been condemned"

The name was changed from RLA to Impact Studio when Harry Belafonte bought in

[Steve Gray]

18 hours ago, Steve Gray said:

Judson Hall, I believe

I seem to remember but I may be wrong that there is a photo of Brownie at an esp-disk session at Judson Hall

Can't find a photo, guess I was wrong, but here are brownie's memories of an Albert Ayler recording session at Judson Hall

https://www.organissimo.org/forum/topic/37678-brownie-on-ayler/

[romualdo]

14 minutes ago, Steve Gray said:

Can't find a photo, guess I was wrong, but here are brownie's memories of an Albert Ayler recording session at Judson Hall

https://www.organissimo.org/forum/topic/37678-brownie-on-ayler/

IIRC Brownie posted those pics on this site a number of years back - just gone back to the thread you listed & the link to the pictures is there but no images appear unfortunately

Edited 9 hours ago by romualdo

[Niko]

Brownie's photos are here

https://www.ayler.co.uk/html/judsonhall.html

The photographer in the pictures is W Eugene Smith whose pictures from the session could include brownie but I don't think such pictures are known...

[Pim]

Thanks guys. Judson Hall was a live venue wasn't it? Ive got Noah Howards concert there. Checking my collection data now I see indeed some Frank Wright records were recorded at RLA studios. As was Carmell Jones' Jay Hawk Talkin but thats no ESP recording by any means of course.