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Brooklyn Blowhards: Brooklyn Blowhards
by Alberto Bazzurro
Lo spirito di Albert Ayler volteggia amabilmente sopra questo album (cinque brani suoi più svariati traditionals del tipo che il sassofonista di Cleveland amava riesumare a suo modo), nella rivisitazione dell'ottetto capitanato da Jeff Lederer (suoi tutti gli arrangiamenti, la produzione, e anche un brano, il penultimo, “The Language of Resistance"). Vi campeggia, inevitabilmente, una solennità scoppiettante, spesso festosa (un Ayler un po' esteriorizzato, stereotipato, ma era prevedibile), condita da assoli sempre calzanti, corporei e disinvolti. In ...
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by Mark Corroto
Imagine seeing a despondent Albert Ayler walking around Brooklyn on a cold November day in 1970, with his tenor saxophone under his arm. Some say he threw himself into the East River, a suicide by drowning. His loss, our loss, was one a true original voices in jazz. Now picture Ayler with a copy of Moby-Dick; or, The Whale tucked under his arm. Reading the 800-plus pages of Herman Melville's opus has been attempted by many, but completed ...
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