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| | Albert Ayler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Ayler was one of several musicians to perform at Coltrane's funeral. | | | Albert Ayler (July 13, 1936–November 1970) was an American jazz saxophonist, singer and composer. | | | Beginning with the album Spirits Rejoice and continuing with records like Bells and The Village Concerts, Ayler turned to performances that were chains of marching band- or mariachi-style themes alternating with overblowing and multiphonic freely improvised group solos, a wild and unique sound that took jazz back to its pre-Louis Armstrong roots of collective improvisation. |
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| | Albert Ayler: 1936-1970 |
| | I know I'd heard better Ayler bands on records, but Ayler's sound was one of the great musical truths, so huge and bright and various and alive, the most fully human -- and humanly full -- sound I've ever heard from a musical instrument. | | | Even for Ayler to hope for acceptance, it was important that the band "look like" a jazz band. | | | This isn't to say that Ayler didn't have bands where one or even two bassists were an essential and vital element, only to say that Ayler's view of the audience required a bass player whether or not he felt any musical reason to have one. |
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| | Albert Ayler |
| | Ayler's legacy is carried on by tenors like David Murray and David S. Ware, in various groups led by bassist William Parker, and by the band Other Dimensions in Music, to name a few in a growing list. | | | As new as Ayler's music sounded then -- and it still sounds shockingly new -- it taps a vein of religious feeling that runs deep in African-American music. | | | In the 1960s, a time of revolutionary extremes in jazz, Ayler's music was the most extreme of all. |
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http://www.bostonphoenix.com/archive/music/98/12/03/ALBERT_AYLER.html
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| | Calculated Dissonance: Avant-Garde Jazz in the 1960s-1970s (Part Two) |
| | Albert Ayler was one musician who had who had strong ties to the music of John Coltrane and the two were in musical debt to each other. | | | Coltrane listened to Ayler’s approach and employed the same dissonant approach in his later albums such as Ascension and Meditations. | | | In the album’s liner notes, Ayler spoke of Coltrane: " Like Coltrane, I’m playing about the beauty that is to come after all the tensions and anxieties." The two artists felt their music was a step ahead of the conventional music of their era. |
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http://members.tripod.com/vermontreview/essays/calculated2.htm
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| | BigO Worldwide |
| | Ayler was at heart a melodic player and if you hear enough free jazz, you wonder why Ghosts (the opening and closing track of the album) isn't a Top 40 hit. | | | With Evans, the music was introverted and mental, and with Ayler, it was passionate and uninhibited. | | | Coltrane considered Ayler's Spiritual Unity as an influence on his album, Ascension (1965). |
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http://www.bigomagazine.com/features05/PCalbertayler.html
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| | The History of Jazz Music. Albert Ayler: biography, discography, review, links |
| | Ayler's was the music of the collective unconscious. | | | Underlying all these contradictions was Ayler's exploration of sound for the sake of sound, that accounted for a completely new idea of music, away from the pillars of harmony, melody and rhythm. | | | By employing a virtually unlimited repertory of tricks and a rich vibrato, Ayler expanded the vocabulary of the saxophone, but, most importantly, he did so while staging a multi-dimensional regression to a simpler age of music (whether the catchy folkish melodies or the military tempos or the collective improvisation of the marching bands). |
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http://www.scaruffi.com/jazz/ayler.html
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| | Albert Ayler 1970 |
| | Albert Ayler: Since we are the music we play, our way of life has to be clean or else the music can't be kept pure. | | | As I write this, in 1993, Ayler's albums are being re-issued, after being unavailable for about 15 years. | | | I was stunned by the music and, as I attempted to discover more about Ayler, I found that the intensity of his music was only surpassed by that of the reactions to it. |
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| | Ayler Remembered |
| | Ayler was not playing hard bop or mainstream music. | | | When the Ayler band played at the Paris Jazz Festival in 1966, I went to the hotel he and his band were staying to pick him up and head to the Salle Pleyel for the concert, which is out now on the HatArt release. | | | During the session, Albert Ayler gave quick indications to the musicians on the next tune, then the music was taped. |
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http://www.ayler.org/albert/html/ayler_remembered.html
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| | // Digital DJs // Respect Due Discussion Board : General Discussion : Albert Ayler |
| | Letâs give Ayler the benefit of the doubt and assume he was interested in seeing what would happen if he combined the current trends in pop music with his own oddball sensibilities. | | | With the addition of Donald Ayler, Albert`s music changed yet again, at times sounding like a New Orleans marching band, which gave the regular jazz critics even more problems, wondering whether it was meant to be taken seriously or as a parody. | | | Surprisingly enough, the mix is quite listenable, as Aylerâs squalls of sound dance over the soul rhythms, but as a musical merger one has to wonder whatâs the point. |
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http://www.digital-djs.com/talk/thread-view.asp?threadid=11069
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| | African American Registry: Jazzman Albert Ayler, a unique sound! |
| | Ayler (tenor, alto and soprano, as well as bagpipes and vocals) was either a genius or a impostor, depending on the listener's musical sensibilities. | | | After starting with alto sax at age 7, Ayler studied at the Academy of Music in Cleveland for seven years, working with R&B bands. | | | He returned to the United States and participated in the Jazz Composers' Guild, then recorded such iconoclastic 1964-'65 albums as Spiritual Unity, Bells and Spirits Rejoice for ESP and the rare and long-out-of-print classic Ghosts for Danish Debut with trumpeter Don Cherry, bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Sunny Murray. |
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http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/2671/Jazzman_Albert_Ayler_a_unique_sound
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| | Discography |
| | Albert Ayler recorded his first album in 1962 and his last in 1970. | | | After his death a number of new records were released, mostly live concert recordings. | | | His records were issued by a number of small, independent labels, several of which are no longer in existence. |
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http://www.ayler.supanet.com/html/discography.html
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| | New Page 1 |
| | It probably made sense to Ayler and the record's producers to include the spoken introduction since this was Ayler's debut album, but as far as I know no one else ever did it. | | | With Ayler there was never this consistency and his music lacked context. | | | One is the Ayler brothers' performance of 'Our Prayer' at St Paul’s Lutheran Church, New York, on July 21st, 1967 at the funeral of John Coltrane - because of the circumstances in which it was recorded one of the most emotionally intense pieces of music I've ever heard. |
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http://www.spincds.com/old/albertayler2004.html
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| | Albert Ayler: Spiritual Unity / Live on the Riviera: Pitchfork Review |
| | The first time I heard Albert Ayler was one of those moments where you slow your breathing in order to listen closer. | | | Vibrations was released in 1964, the same year Ayler recorded Spiritual Unity for a new label called ESP-Disk. | | | Though he obviously has a deep love of simple folk melodies, the intensity of his feeling is such that a tune could never contain it, and the sound spills over and around the structure until it eventually bursts forth in a chaotic torrent. |
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http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/a/ayler_albert/spiritual-unity-live-on-the-riviera.shtml
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| | JAZZED IN CLEVELAND - Part Eleven- by Joe Mosbrook |
| | Ayler was taught music by his father until he was ten years old, then he went to Benny Miller’s Academy of Music at East 105th and Superior. | | | Albert Ayler, the native Cleveland jazz saxophonist who marched a distinctively different drummer, once said bebop was too simple. | | | I was impressed by the way he played the changes." Others said Ayler was soon playing like Parker and some local musicians began calling him "Little Bird." By the time Ayler left college to join the army in 1956, fellow musicians said he would warm up by playing Parker solos backward. |
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http://www.cleveland.oh.us/wmv_news/jazz11.htm
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| | village voice > music > Albert Ayler's Holy Ghost by Francis Davis |
| | Within jazz, Ayler's influence was instant (late Coltrane, Archie Shepp's tuba band, the AACM), and it's been enduring, though you have to bypass the mainstream to hear saxophonists and whole ensembles emulating his freedom of pitch. | | | The difference is that for Ayler, Jesus wasn't just Dr. Phil with stigmata, an imaginary friend with a never-ending stream of sage advice. | | | On the other hand, this is Ayler just three months before his suicide, so deranged that he also believes Sinatra and Tom Jones are ripping him off and that the end of days is nigh. |
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http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0441,davis,57530,22.html
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| | Albert Ayler : Live in Greenwich Village: The Complete Impulse Sessions - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect |
| | This double CD from 1998 combines all of the music on tenor saxophonist Albert Ayler's In Greenwich Village recording with a two-album set from the same sessions, titled The Village Concerts (the latter taken from two concerts in 1966-1967). | | | They will not convince detractors of the radical saxophonist's music but they are more accessible than much of his music. | | | Among the pieces are "Truth Is Marching In," "Spirits Rejoice," "Angels" (an Albert Ayler duet with pianist Call Cobbs), "For John Coltrane," and "Change Has Come." Donald Ayler's bugle-like fanfares and the droning violin certainly make the ensemble's sound quite unique. |
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| | ALBERT AYLER: Passion, Spirit and Mystery - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM |
| | One of the versions is in fact, a live recording of Ayler and his band playing the song at the funeral service. | | | The fruits of what by many accounts was fiery but unforgettable union between Ayler ("eye-ler") and music are now being documented in a newly-released 10-CD box set compiled by Austin, Texas-based reissue label, Revenant Records. | | | Legend also has it that the adult Ayler would warm up for his live performances by playing the solos of Charlie Parker backwards. |
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http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/lifestyle/html/20041030T220000-0500_68558_OBS_ALBERT_AYLER__PASSION__SPIRIT_AND_MYSTERY.asp
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| | albert ayler |
| | Albert Ayler's debut release is a historical moment in avant-garde jazz.'Spiritual Unity' defined the ethos of ESP as the quintessential free-music label of the '60s and '70s. | | | Available commercially for the first time, and recorded during Ayler's final concert series, this release shows Ayler at 'the peak of his creative powers' and is a stunning testament to his genius and add... | | | The ESP label originally released 'Bells' as a one-sided transparent vinyl disc- a move that shocked the jazz avant-garde world at the time and matched the subversive and profound musical stateme... |
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| | HurdAudio: Tuned in to the Holy Ghost - Chapter 5 |
| | Nearly all of Ayler's signature tunes are found on this disc. | | | Disc 5 continues to present the 1966 incarnation of the Albert Ayler Quintet found on the previous two discs (with a different rhythm section on these particular recordings). | | | The immeasurably appealing combination of Donald Ayler on trumpet, Michel Sampson on violin and Albert Ayler on tenor and soprano sax from the Cleveland material earlier in the box set are back with even more chemistry. |
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http://hurdaudio.blogspot.com/2005/02/tuned-in-to-holy-ghost-chapter-5.html
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| | Albert Ayler/Art Ensemble- movie soundtrack |
| | The vocal-like tone of Ayler's saxophone is the essence of this music: It can wail with pain, or sing with praise to a higher being. | | | They could be lyrics in a revolutionary chant, or a hymn, or the title of a painting. | | | Those four words are the title of an Albert Ayler song. |
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http://www.furious.com/perfect/aylerartensemble.html
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| | Albert Ayler - Holy Ghost, New Grass Review |
| | Ayler had always incorporated gospel, R & B and marching band grooves in his music; the pop attempts here are far from signs of sellout. | | | What hurts most is that the pop tunes are almost parodies of pop and light funk; they sound more like background music from The Flip Wilson show rather than from a genius absorbing other styles of the day, especially "New Generation" and "Heart Love". | | | With its rarities, live tracks, and demos, this 9 CD monster collection is probably the most comprehensive set ever compiled on one artist. |
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http://www.musicemissions.com/display_review/2894
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| | The Observer OMM 3, Albert Ayler: Holy Ghost |
| | Ayler's hardcore anthems of social and political dissent - 'This is the only way that's left for musicians to play. | | | His mystically obscure musical gestures still make ruthless demands of the listener - his fullness of tone and fondness for arbitrary overstatement come roaring out of the speakers with the self-confidence of a brilliantly creative spirit unconcerned with widening a gulf between his music and his audience. | | | Yet for years he has been more written about than listened to. |
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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/reviews/story/0,13875,1369088,00.html
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| | The Music |
| | “Ayler Records’ Jan Strom claims that ‘Ghosts’ originates in a song called ‘Torparvisan’ (‘Little Farmer’s Song’) which was a hit on Swedish radio in 1961, and the late Bengt Frippe Nordstrom, who recorded Albert at the time, confirmed that Albert performed the song while touring the country with local musicians. | | | A close listening to the 78 rpm recording as sung by Gunde Johansson reveals little melodic similarity between the folk material and any extant Ayler composition to my knowledge, though the harmonic correspondences are clear enough. | | | I have also added a couple of pages, one listing other people’s versions of Ayler’s tunes, the other listing various musical tributes to Albert Ayler. |
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http://www.ayler.org/albert/html/the_music.html
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| | Albert Ayler: Live in Greenwich Village: The Complete Impulse Recordings: Pitchfork Review |
| | The most profound synthesis of noise and melody comes with Ayler's signature "Truth Is Marching In." The piece takes its time building from the wailing funeral dirge of the opening to the furious atonal improvisations that close the track. | | | Whether he was inspired to scale such heights in his music through true- blue divine inspiration or insanity, even a lifelong atheist like myself has to admit that this astonishing album gets me in the praying mood. | | | Choosing the right instrumental setting was always a problem for Ayler; early recordings featured a misplaced piano, later experiments oddly incorporated harpsichord. |
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http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/a/ayler_albert/live-in-greenwich-village.shtml
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| | etnobofin: Grasping at Albert Ayler |
| | I've always thought that Ayler's music is much more emotional and from the heart than cerebral, which is maybe why some people have a hard time understanding it, or at least figuring out how to put their appreciation of the music into words. | | | Listening to Albert Ayler reminded me of an old Abdullah Ibrahim album I used to have. | | | I guess what I was trying to say is that Albert Ayler's music is so basic, so primal, so obviously un-cerebral, that as a listener I sometimes get the feeling that I'm missing something deeper. |
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http://etnobofin.blogspot.com/2005/06/grasping-at-albert-ayler.html
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| | What's New |
| | Perfectly timed to correspond with last year's release of Holy Ghost, a massive 10-CD set of unreleased music, My Name is Albert Ayler is the first in-depth documentary of one of the musical giants of the 20th century. | | | However it did make me wonder whether there was any variation in the sound quality of the different CD editions of the Ayler albums. | | | Admittedly it’s not one of Ayler’s best, but it is a bit of a rarity, with a very limited release on CD, and it’s certainly been unavailable for the last five years since this site went online, so you’d expect some interest. |
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| | Albert Ayler : Features : One Final Note |
| | The audio interviews with Ayler himself—found on discs eight and nine of the set—make up for some of the book's obfuscations by providing glimpses both brief and exhaustive into Ayler's disposition and worldview at different points in his career. | | | As a "monument in sound" to Ayler, it is suspect for both what it presents as well as what it lacks. | | | What one hears throughout the box are performances attended seemingly by three people in the audience, all clapping uncomfortably, and recorded by a gentleman in the back with a microphone hidden in his coat pocket. |
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http://www.onefinalnote.com/features/2004/ayler
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| | * Dusted Reviews - Albert Ayler * |
| | Apparently when Ayler was asked after the Paris show (the recording’s final three tracks) what the song titles were, he was so tired he didn’t remember properly. | | | Beaver Harris is electric on this recording, pushing Donald Ayler to some of his most expressive playing on record during “Prophet.” Folwell (who creates such rich, almost unearthly drones with Samson) and Harris also get solo spots (which are believed to be their only ones on record with Ayler). | | | On this concert document from the end of 1966, which catches the group in the midst of a European tour which left audiences both befuddled and ecstatic, Ayler is joined by his brother on trumpet, Michael Samson on violin, William Folwell on bass, and Beaver Harris on drums. |
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http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/660
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| | sfweekly.com Music Albert Ayler |
| | Here's why: Though Ayler drew his melodies from tuneful African-American spirituals, old-time folk music, and New Orleans marches and dirges, his concept was largely about channeling freedom and life energy -- "Not about the notes," as he often said. | | | While the archival aspect of the package is noteworthy -- eight CDs of live performances, an assortment of historical ephemera (including two discs of interviews), and a 200-page book filled with biography, criticism, and anecdotes -- nearly half of the performances are literally unlistenable. | | | But combined with the bootleg quality of many of the recordings, it's too often nearly impossible to hear. |
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http://music.sfweekly.com/Issues/2004-12-22/music/reviewed5.html
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| | CRUD CRUD: Albert Ayler Sells Out |
| | Albert Ayler The Last Album LP (Impulse, 1969) | | | In a musical life that was pretty much controversial from the start it seems absurd that Ayler's most controversial period was that right after Coltrane died, when he released New Grass and Music is the Healing Force of the Universe. | | | Joined by guitarist Henry Vestine (formerly of the Mothers of Invention and taking a break from Canend Heat), Ayler's take on funk and the blues lead many fans to scream "SELL OUT." But what these folks failed to see is that the number one theme with Ayler always was exploring his and jazz's musical roots. |
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http://crudcrud.blogspot.com/2006/02/albert-ayler-sells-out.html
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| | Albert Ayler Biography |
| | His huge tone and wide vibrato were difficult to ignore and his 1966 group sounded like a runaway New Orleans brass band from 1910. | | | His first musical jobs were in RandB bands including one led by Little Walter although oddly enough he was nicknamed "Little Bird" in his early days because of a similarity in sound on alto to Charlie Parker! | | | Folk melodies (which had been utilized a bit with Cherry) had a more dominant role as did collective improvisation and yet, despite the use of spaced - out marches, Irish jigs and brass - band fanfares, tonally Ayler remained quite free. |
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http://trumpet.sdsu.edu/Albert_Ayler.html
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| | CREEM ONLINE: Albert Ayler — Holy Ghost |
| | The recordings are drawn from radio and TV sessions, studio demos, private recordings, and live concert footage, all of which give testament to the breathtaking breadth of Ayler's talent. | | | With titles like "Spirits Rejoice," "Free Spiritual Music" and "Judge Ye Not," the music has an overtly holy bent, drawing from spirituals but taking them to new levels of Pentecostal outness (as though Ayler was playing his saxophone in tongues). | | | The box (which is a gorgeous spirit box cast from handcarved original) contains 10 CDs of rare and previously unreleased recordings. |
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http://www.creemmagazine.com/BeatGoesOn/AlbertAyler/HolyGhost001.html
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| | Albert Ayler |
| | His father also provided his first experiences in front of an audience, the two performing duets in church with the elder Ayler on violin and Albert on alto saxophone. | | | He had never been financally secure, and a series of what were perceived as commercially-motivated albums damaged his reputation, despite the quality still present in the recordings. | | | At the end of the year he joined a tour of Sweden and Denmark with radical pianist Cecil Taylor, and he would subsequently return to the States with Taylor, performing at the Take Three club in New York for most of 1963. |
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http://www.nndb.com/people/277/000046139
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| | Artists: Albert Ayler |
| | Albert Ayler: His Life and Music by Jeff Schwartz |
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| | Albert Ayler: Holy Ghost |
| | Donald Ayler and Michel Samson are holdovers from discs three and four but the new rhythm section is bassist Bill Folwell and drummer Beaver Harris. | | | Though the tenor saxophonist always gets his own chapter in any discussion of the avant garde jazz of the '60s, he is still relatively unknown to most jazz listeners, due mainly to his recorded work up until now being exclusively as a leader. | | | Inside are nine discs of rare and unissued recordings made between 1962 and 1970. |
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http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=15356
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| | Ekkehard Ehlers - Plays - Stylus Magazine |
| | Though Ehlers’ splintery recombination of these mournful bowings echoes Ayler’s impassioned soloing, the mood of the Ayler tracks is far more likely to conjure images of the legend’s body floating in the East River than his ecstatic onstage presence. | | | Similarly, Plays Albert Ayler deliberately forsakes the obligatory saxophone squealing in favor of drawn-out cello lamentations, a sedate take on the fiery string wailing of Ayler’s prime recordings. | | | It’s a surprise ending, for certain, but an oddly appropriate conclusion to the Plays collection; like the music before, it’s evocative without being literal, an unconventional distillation of complex personal and musical phenomenon. |
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http://www.stylusmagazine.com/review.php?ID=344
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| | Tower Records - Live In Greenwich Village: The Complete... - Albert Ayler |
| | Ayler blows a sweet lament over Cobbs' rolling arpeggios, conjuring images of divine winged messengers stumbling tipsily onto a street corner after a hard day at the ol' salvation grind. | | | The band often suggests a gaggle of patriots crying out in personal jubilation but rallying together, again and again, to sing a cherished anthem anew. | | | The Wire (12/98, p.52) - "...Ayler's music sought out extremes of passion, never anger or frustration....but hear the music - if only for sheer emotion that rouses the blood and lifts the spirt like few other experiences of our time." |
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| | Revenant is planning big Albert Ayler box - organissimo jazz forums - This is the place to discuss the band, jazz, and ... |
| | Went on a big Ayler kick a few years ago when I first discovered his music (me and a few thousand other listeners, right?), and this news makes me want to pull out a few CDs that I haven't spun in awhile (listened to WITCHES AND DEVILS about two months ago). | | | It is my understanding most of the Revenant is from the Ayler tree cds. | | | Also, the title of the two-disc set is a bit misleading, or at least it was to me, because I thought it contained all of his Impulse&. |
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| | Waves From Albert Ayler, MP3 Album Music Download at eMusic |
| | Without a doubt, this album wails from the first seconds of Ayler's "Spirits," which opens the album. | | | Yet following this is another nice wind-down, the more sparse and careful "Elf." The original issue of Waves From Albert Ayler closed two tracks later with a cover of Gary Bartz's "People's Dance," but this CD reissue also includes three bonus tracks that were recorded in 1977 right before the group dissolved. | | | Chicago's John Corbett and the Atavistic label have done a great service to free jazz fans in reissuing this sole album by Sweden's influential Mount Everest Trio as part of the Unheard Music Series. |
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http://www.emusic.com/album/10752/10752369.html
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| | Julian Cope Presents Head Heritage Unsung Reviews Albert Ayler - Love Cry |
| | The 3rd track "Omega" is a true gas!, again it features a lively duet with Albert and Don, they are joined by the awesome Call Cobbs on harpsichord, he plays like he just came back from a session on The Seeds "Future" album!!!. | | | The closing "Universal Indians" is even freakier than the out-take, this is marching band music from Saturn not New Orleans!!!,and a fitting way so close this remarkable record. | | | Since "Love Cry" has been transferred to CD with some bonus tracks that's the edition which I'll talk about here. |
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http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/reviews/index.php?review_id=298
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| | Robert Quine home page by Douglas Boynton Quine |
| | Quine had a record collector's encyclopedia of influences, which he defined as "Chuck Berry to Albert Ayler." Born in Akron in 1942, he created his style alone, practicing to '50s and '60s records, citing only the Velvet Underground, Stooges, electric Miles, and one Eno album (On Land) as contemporary models. |
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| | Jazz, Dance Bands & Vocalists - Newsletter 135 - Albert Ayler -> Mary Lou Williams |
| | There's also an 8-min bonus disc that has 2 performances of Albert in rehearsal with the 76th US AG Band. | | | In between there's such legendary performances as a 22 minute Four done with the Cecil Taylor Quartet with Jimmy Lyons in Copenhagen '62, a performance in '68 with the Pharoah Sanders for an unreleased LP, Albert sitting in with his brother Donald's band in '69 with Sam Rivers on tenor. | | | I don't know if I'm the only one who's gone through all 10 discs, but I haven't seen any reviews mention that there are hidden bonus tracks on the two interview discs. |
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http://www.rootsandrhythm.com/roots/NEWSLETTER_135/newsletter135_jazz_1.htm
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| | Albert Ayler MP3 Downloads - Albert Ayler Music Downloads - Albert Ayler Music Videos |
| | The music is just about as free and raucous as Ayler ever got. | | | Oddly titled, perhaps, but this double disc performs the valuable service of unearthing a 1964 live concert at New York's Cellar Café of the outstanding trio with Ayler, bassist Gary Peacock, and Sunny Murray. | | | Albert Ayler MP3 Downloads - Albert Ayler Music Downloads - Albert Ayler Music Videos |
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http://www.mp3.com/albums/561891/summary.html
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| | My Name Is Albert Ayler |
| | There was the innate tendency toward music and, as Donald Ayler put it, playing it with love. | | | Jack Gold is a photojournalist, drummer, percussionist, and founder of the Sol Disk free jazz/outside music label. | | | This was against the wishes of their mother who did not want either of her sons involved in the music scene. |
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http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=20090
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| | Albert Ayler - Discography of Albums - AOL Music |
| | Albert Ayler - Discography of Albums - AOL Music | | | Find comprehensive artist, album, music video and song info on aolmusic.com. | | | Warning: Many features of this site require JavaScript and cookies. |
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http://music.aol.com/artist/albert-ayler/6036/discography?albumid=0
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| | Amazon.com: A Glance: Albert Ayler |
| | Sign up to be e-mailed when new music releases for "Albert Ayler" arrive. | | | Customers who bought albums by Albert Ayler also bought: | | | Music Is Healing Force of Universe (Dig) [Original recording remastered] |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/artist/glance/-/53154
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| | New Grass/Message from Albert by Albert Ayler: Reviews |
| | Albert Ayler : Albums : New Grass : New Grass/Message from Albert : Reviews | | | Buy the CD Check for lowest CD prices from virtually everywhere online. | | | Possibly the most notorious Albert Ayler release and universally misunderstood (i.e., hated) by fans and critics alike. |
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http://www.mp3.com/tracks/281345/reviews.html
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| | Plan 9 - Albert Ayler : Holy Ghost [Box] |
| | Also includes a 10th bonus disc featuring Albert Ayler as member of U.S. Army Band! | | | The deluxe box HOLY GHOST features 9 CDs of rare & unissued recordings and includes a 208 pg. | | | Spin (p.114) - "Ayler's unhinged sound was shocking in the '60s, and it still is - often weirdly beautiful, always deeply human." |
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http://www.buymusichere.net/rel/v2_viewupc.php?storenr=12&upc=63081402132
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| | Prophecy by Albert Ayler |
| | The first of Albert Ayler's ESP recordings (but one of the last to be released) is this live session with bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Sunny Murray | | | Tag all your own MP3 files with album covers easily with MUSICMATCH Jukebox Plus! | | | Create Albert Ayler MP3s faster with MUSICMATCH Jukebox Plus! |
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http://www.mmguide.musicmatch.com/album/album.cgi?ALBUMID=823854
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