Results for "Donald Ayler"

Holy Ghost: The Life & Death of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler

by Matt Marshall
November 15, 2022

Holy Ghost: The Life & Death of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler Richard Koloda 312 Pages ISBN: #9781911036937 Jawbone Press 2022 There's a special enthusiasm in the Cleveland, Ohio, jazz orbit for avant-garde saxophonist Albert Ayler—an insistent push to celebrate, memorialize, canonize a legend thought to be unjustly forgotten ...

Albert Ayler Quintet: At Slugs’ Saloon 1966 Revisited

by Chris May
June 29, 2022

There continues to be as much discussion about Albert Ayler's personality and motivations as there is about the music he left us. Was he a religious fundamentalist? Was he bi-polar? Was he an attention seeker? Was he some sort of leather fetishist? The evidence suggests Ayler may have been borderline bi-polar, but as for the other ...

Albert Ayler: La Cave Live-Cleveland 1966-Revisited

by Chris May
January 24, 2022

Cleveland club La Cave, a grungy cellar which could accommodate around two hundred people, opened as a folk venue in 1962, transitioned into rock mid-decade, and closed in 1969. Along the way, in amongst such counterculture flagbearers as the Velvet Underground and The Fugs, La Cave booked a few of the bad boys of so-called “new ...

Rodrigo Amado Northern Liberties: We Are Electric

by Mark Corroto
January 10, 2022

The predicament with modern albums is that an album is often more than just one album. With the advent of streaming music, and compact discs before it, music expands beyond the unit we traditionally designated as side one or side two of an LP. A perfect example of this concept is We Are Electric by the ...

1966: Berlin, Lörrach, Paris & Stockholm. Revisited

By Albert Ayler

Label: Ezz-thetics
Released: 2021
Track listing: (CD1) Berlin, November 3, 1966: Truth Is Marching In; Omega (Is The Alpha); Our Prayer / Truth Is Marching In / Our Prayer; Ghost / Bells; Lörrach, November 7, 1966: Bells; Prophet; Our Prayer / Spirits Rejoice; Ghosts; Truth Is Marching In; (CD2) Paris, November 13, 1966: Ghosts; Spiritual Rebirth / Light In Darkness / Infinite Spirit; All / Our Prayer / Holy Family; Stockholm, November 10, 1966: Truth Is Marching In; Omega (Is The Alpha); Our Prayer / Bells; Infinite Spirit / Japan.

Albert Ayler Quintet: 1966: Berlin, Lörrach, Paris & Stockholm. Revisited

by Mark Corroto
April 24, 2021

It may sound odd to describe the music that Albert Ayler's quintet performs here as the musical equivalent of comfort food, but these sounds can be associated with security and nostalgia. They are a reminder of the spark ignited by this tenor saxophonist from Cleveland. Ayler, maybe more than any artist of his day, paved the ...

Albert Ayler 1965: Spirits Rejoice & Bells Revisited

By Albert Ayler

Label: Ezz-thetics
Released: 2020
Track listing: Spirits Rejoice; Holy Family; D.C.; Angels; Prophet; Bells.

Donald Ayler

Born: October 5, 1942

Franz Koglmann / Steve Lacy: Flaps

by Mark Corroto
February 28, 2019

A bit of surface noise on the reissue of 1973's Flaps--originally issued by Franz Koglmann's Pipe Records--can be easily excused. This long out- of-print collectors vinyl has been made available by Black Monk Records, and we can now rejoice. Steve Lacy went to Vienna and made this somewhat strange recording with the then relatively ...

Wojtek Mazolewski Quintet: Polka (Worldwide Deluxe Edition)

by Chris May
August 8, 2018

Jazz in Poland has a courageous and artistically distinguished history--first in cultural opposition to Soviet-era dictatorship, later as a celebration of national and personal freedoms. Despite this, most Polish musicians remain little known beyond their own borders. The violinist Michal Urbaniak and the late pianist Krzysztof Komeda and trumpeter Tomasz Stańko are among a tiny handful ...