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Spiritual Unity

By Albert Ayler

Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2005
Track listing: Ghosts: First Variation; The Wizard; Spirits; Ghosts: Second Variation.

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Article: Album Review

By the looks of it, Spirits seems like a no-brainer. The names on the cover look good: Albert Ayler, Henry Grimes, and Sunny Murray. But somehow the parts never add up, though. Sure, the album's four tunes wiggle plenty, producing the agitated jazz Ayler often preached; but, the motions on Spirits, unlike Ayler's better moments, resolve ...

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Albert Ayler: Live on the Riviera

Read "Live on the Riviera" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
September 12, 2005

By Ted Kane Live on the Riviera is one of those CDs that is more interesting historically than compelling musically. It was recorded live in France less than four months prior to the saxophonist's death, and most of his devotees will want to hear it at least once, yet only a small segment of ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Albert Ayler: Prophecy/Bells

by Clifford Allen
July 14, 2005

Albert Ayler Prophecy/Bells ESP-Disk 2005 Despite a rather brief period of artistic flourish (c. 1964 - c. 1967), tenor man Albert Ayler has probably, next to Coltrane and Cecil Taylor, held the most sway on the direction of improvisation from a 'thematic' or 'phrase-based' approach to that of ...

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Albert Ayler Trio: Spiritual Unity

Read "Spiritual Unity" reviewed by Rex Butters

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 ...

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Albert Ayler: Live on the Riviera

Read "Live on the Riviera" reviewed by James Taylor

by James Taylor
April 24, 2005

Albert Ayler's saxophone sound was raw and unfettered. Ayler's life, like his sound, was the personification of the blues. Sorrowful and excitable, both mournful and full of life, Ayler's sound was the sound of the human voice set free. That's why critics are afraid of him--like all revolutionaries, Ayler said things people don't like to hear. ...

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Holy Ghost

By Albert Ayler

Label: Revenant
Released: 2004

Album

Selections From "Holy Ghost"

By Albert Ayler

Label: Ayler Records
Released: 2004

Album

Complete Live At Slug's Saloon Recordings

By Albert Ayler

Label: Lone Hill Jazz
Released: 2004
Track listing: Bells; Ghosts; Truth Is Marching In; Our Prayer;

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Article: Reassessing

Albert Ayler: New Grass

by Trevor MacLaren
November 29, 2004

Albert Ayler New Grass Impulse! 1968 If there is one word that is poison in the minds of jazz fans and critics, it's sellout. If any musician, for whatever reason, decides to change their sound in a way that could be considered commercial, they have committed the deadliest ...