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Albert Ayler: Albert Ayler 1965: Spirits Rejoice & Bells Revisited
by Mark Corroto
Being that 2020 is more than half a century since Albert Ayler (1936-70) recorded this music, the best way to approach might be through what the Zen Buddhists call Shoshin. Roughly translated as beginner's mind," or the ability to experience things as if for the first time. Since we cannot transport ourselves back to 1965, taking a posture of readiness and being open to experience the revelatory nature of this music might be the best plan of attack.
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by AAJ Italy Staff
Charles Tyler fa parte di quella schiera di musicisti che hanno partecipato alla rivoluzione della New Thing senza assurgere alla statura di eroi o leggendari protagonisti, ma lavorando piuttosto nell'ombra o a fianco di stelle di prima grandezza. Come successe al nostro, che incontrò Albert Ayler a Cleveland lo seguì fino a New York entrando nella sua band con la quale registrò gli storici Bells e Spirits Rejoice e nella quale figurava al sax contralto come una sorta di alter ...
read moreCharles Tyler: Charles Tyler Ensemble
by AAJ Italy Staff
E' inevitabile ricordare Albert Ayler ascoltando questo disco. Il sax dolorante, l'astrattismo imperante, il ricorso agli strumenti ad arco, il parossismo della cantabilità tematica accostata all'esplosione free non lasciano dubbi. E infatti Tyler fu per anni, e anche in molti celebri dischi, parte integrante della cerchia dello sfortunato Albert. Un gigante che a quanto pare ne ha segnato anche la storia da solista. Per convincersene basta prestare l'orecchio (non ci vuole molto) alle analogia del brano Three Spirits" con molti ...
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by Raul d'Gama Rose
Charles Tyler Ensemble possesses a profound quality. Unlike many records of the mid-1960s, it burns with a quiet blue flame, eschewing the intellectual posturing that characterized much new music in the avant-garde era. Tyler, a baritone saxophonist who became an acolyte of Albert Ayler--following him to New York in the early part of the movement--transposes Ayler's famous gravitas to the horn of a higher register, the alto. This act alone gives his spare and deeply spiritual compositions ...
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by Jerry D'Souza
Charles Tyler was an innovative musician who could unfurl a maelstrom of ideas from just a spark. He played with fire and spirit, finding his muse in free jazz and filling his music with bold inventions.
Tyler met Albert Ayler when he was 14. He later went on to play with Ayler, whose influence can be heard in his approach. Tyler, however, held his own shining in the company of other free jazz votaries like Cecil Taylor, Dewey Redman, David ...
read moreCharles Tyler: Saga of the Outlaws
by Clifford Allen
Charles Tyler Saga of the Outlaws Nessa Records 2009
Saga of the Outlaws is just about the most fitting title one could expect for saxophonist Charles Tyler's fifth LP under his own name. Tyler was more than an outlaw (or a gladiator, to paraphrase Stanley Crouch), but unfortunately his name crops up rather rarely in discussions of jazz's historical vanguard. He traversed the Midwest, from Kentucky to Indiana to Cleveland, Ohio where ...
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