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Tenor Badness: Albert Ayler, Archie Shepp, Gato Barbieri

by Chris May
July 30, 2006

During Albert Ayler's performance at John Coltrane's funeral on June 21, 1967, Ayler described Coltrane as the “father," Pharoah Sanders as the “son," and himself as the “holy ghost." The remark generated as much fury among the jazz establishment as Ayler's incendiary--and still howlingly divine--music, but the description, so far as it went, was spot on. ...