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Albert Ayler
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Tenor saxophonist Albert Ayler was born on July 13th 1936 in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. He learned to play the alto sax at a young age. His father, Edward, encouraged his musical interests and was his first teacher. Albert Ayler continued his musical education at John Adams High School, where he played oboe, and at the local music academy. His first gig was with Lloyd Pearson and his Counts of Rhythm when has was 15 in 1951. This led to a job with Little Walter Jacobs’ R&B band with whom he spent the following two summer vacations traveling. After graduating from high school in 1954 he went to a local college but financial difficulties forced him to leave college in 1956 and join the army
Copenhagen, Bordeaux 1966 & Newport 1967 Live First Release
By Albert Ayler
Label: AlAy
Released: 2026
Track listing: Truth Is Marching In; Holy Ghost / Bells / Light In Darkness; Our Prayer; Spiritual Rebirth
(incomplete); Infinite Spirit; Truth Is Marching In; Japan (traditional); Our Prayer.
Reference: Albert Ayler Quartet Goin' Home 1964
By Albert Ayler
Label: thingamajig
Released: 2026
Track listing: Ol' Man River; Down By The Riverside; Swing Low, Sweet Chariot; Deep River; When The
Saints Go Marchin' In; Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen; Ol' Man River (Take 1); Swing
Low, Sweet Chariot (take 1); Down By The Riverside (Take 5).
Arcanum at Victoria Nasjonal Jazzscene, Oslo
by Artur Moral
Arcanum Victoria Nasjonal Jazzscene Oslo, Norway October 9, 2026 Forget the hermetic allusions suggested by their name; forget the content of their first and only album, even though part of their live set is based on it; and forget, above all, preconceived notions about national characteristics and artistic approaches. An Arcanum ...
Albert Ayler Quartet: Reference: Albert Ayler Quartet Goin' Home 1964
by Mark Corroto
On February 24, 1964, Albert Ayler entered Atlantic Studios in New York City to record a series of compositions that would help define the saxophonist's legacy and, arguably, alter the course of jazz. The Cleveland, Ohio, native had recently returned from Europe, where he had performed with Cecil Taylor's quartet and at the urging of Swedish ...
Ivo Perelman, Elliott Sharp, Cyro Baptista: Triacontagon
by Mark Corroto
To better appreciate Triacontagon, it helps to wind the clock back to Brazilian saxophonist Ivo Perelman's recordings from the mid-to-late 1990s. Consider Man of the Forest (GM Recordings, 1994), Brazilian Watercolour (Leo Records, 1999) and Aquarela do Brazil (Atração Fonográfica, 1999). Each featured fellow São Paulo native, percussionist Cyro Baptista. Perelman, who began his musical life ...
John Coltrane At 100: A Global Perspective
by Ian Patterson
With the advent of his birth centenary, John William Coltrane is on our minds again. But then he nearly always is. His influence on generations of saxophonists is palpable. For countless musicians the term Coltranesque" can be a badge of honor or a millstone around the neck. With the exception perhaps of Miles Davis--whose centenary also ...
Otherlands Trio at BOP STOP
by John Chacona
Otherlands Trio BOP STOP at the Music SettlementCleveland, OHJune 18, 2026 Cleveland's New Ghosts presenting organization was named in honor of Albert Ayler, perhaps the city's most notable jazz player. That said, any notion that the astonishing, two-hour concert by Otherlands Trio--bassist Stephan Crump, Darius Jones on alto saxophone, and drummer ...
Marion Brown: Live in Europe 1968 & 1972
by Mark Corroto
There was not much room in the crowded landscape of the 1960s avant-garde for everyone to receive equal attention. Critics and listeners alike gravitated toward the towering presence of John Coltrane, whose music dominated both record sales and jazz journalism. As a result, visionary figures such as Eric Dolphy, Albert Ayler and Marion Brown often found ...
Liudas Mockūnas / Samuel Blaser / Marc Ducret: Twisted Summer
by Mark Corroto
All of modern jazz and improvised music owes a debt to Jimmy Giuffre (1921--2008). A quiet revolutionary, Giuffre helped reshape the language of jazz in ways that many musicians now take for granted. His solo recordings anticipated those of Anthony Braxton and Roscoe Mitchell, while his early experiments without a rhythm section, common practice today, were ...

