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Albert Ayler Trio

Prophecy Live, First Visit

By Albert Ayler

Label: Ezz-thetics
Released: 2025
Track listing: Spirits; Wizard; Ghost 1st Variation; Prophecy; Ghost 2nd Variation; Saints; Ghosts; Wizard; Children; Spirits (theme).

Albert Ayler Trio: Prophecy Live, First Visit

by Glenn Astarita
May 2, 2025

This 1964 New York City recording, now remastered and released on the Ezzthetics label, captures Albert Ayler with Gary Peacock and Sunny Murray at a crucial juncture in the saxophonist's development. This performance at the Cellar Cafe marks an early, vital snapshot of a trio that would become foundational to the free jazz movement. It is ...

Albert Ayler Trio: Prophecy Live, First Visit

by Mark Corroto
April 13, 2025

No jazz artist has been as polarizing as Albert Ayler. Listeners either revere him as a prophet or dismiss him as a charlatan. To some, his music is a divine revelation; to others, an indecipherable cacophony. But while Ayler's music was undeniably radical, he was no insurrectionist-- he was simply a true original. His sound was ...

Albert Ayler Trio: 1964: Prophecy Revisited

by Mark Corroto
April 7, 2020

Albert Ayler is often quoted as saying “Trane was the Father, Pharoah was the Son, I am the Holy Ghost," referring to John Coltrane, “Pharoah Sanders," and himself. It might be better said that Ayler was John The Baptist, the musical prophet that proclaimed the coming of free jazz. Like many a prophet, his end was ...

Spiritual Unity

By Albert Ayler Trio

Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2005
Track listing: Ghosts: ?rst variation; The Wizard; Spirits; Ghosts: second variation.

Albert Ayler Trio: Spiritual Unity

by Rex Butters
July 5, 2005

1964 proved to be a watershed year for Albert Ayler, who recorded enough material for ten albums, three for ESP alone. With drummer Sunny Murray a lone constant, Ayler exchanged Henry Grimes for Gary Peacock on bass midyear, briefly adding Don Cherry for some of the most memorable excursions he would commit to tape, including the ...

Albert Ayler Trio: Spiritual Unity

by AAJ Staff
March 28, 2005

Whole generations of musicians and listeners experienced a dramatic and irrevocable awakening in the years after Albert Ayler's Spiritual Unity came out in 1964, and the record has a certain timeless quality that makes it just as important today. The piercing emotional emphasis and startlingly voice- like qualities of Ayler's saxophone playing turn childishly simple melodies ...

Spiritual Unity

By Albert Ayler Trio

Label: Personal Affair
Released: 1965
Track listing: Ghosts: First Variation; The Wizard; Spirits; Ghosts: Second Variation;