Jazz Articles about Albert Ayler

Albert Ayler: Nuits De La Fondation Maeght 1970

by Mark Corroto
December 1, 2002

Certainly no one at the time would have known that this recorded performance of the Maeght’s Festival in St. Paul de Vence was to be Albert Ayler’s last. But looking back on events that led up to his tragic death, his flame burnt so very bright that it surely was not going to burn long. Born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1936, Ayler embarked on a lifetime of spontaneous combustion that centered on the ‘new thing’ jazz movement and threatened to ...