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Albert Ayler Trio: Spiritual Unity
by Rex Butters
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 ...
Sun Ra: Heliocentric Worlds Vol. 3
by Mark Corroto
Have pity on the poor Sun Ra music collector. You see, those who “do research" on a single artist like Duke Ellington, Sonny Blount, or John Coltrane spend years and countless dollars chasing one thing, like a heroin addict who can never find a high as good as the first time. Those of us who had ...
Ellis Marsalis: Ruminations in New York
by Robert R. Calder
This nice, rather than exciting, solo piano set pays tribute, consciously or not, to the late John Lewis's last campaign: on behalf of the Great American Songbook ballads which Lewis insisted were, with the blues, the foundation of jazz since the 1920s. Inspired no doubt by years creating his own melodic lines on Kern, ...
Albert Ayler: Live on the Riviera
by James Taylor
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. ...
Pharoah Sanders: Pharoah
by Trevor MacLaren
With Bernard Stollman opening up the ESP vaults, jazz fans find themselves privy to some of jazz's most interesting and eclectic recordings remastered for the first time. Among the initial remasters is one of ESP's first releases, Pharoah's First, recorded in 1964. This record has always been a thorn in the discography of saxophonist Pharoah Sanders. ...
Albert Ayler Trio: Spiritual Unity
by AAJ Staff
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 ...
The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vol. I
By Sun Ra
Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Heliocentric
2. Outer Nothingness
3. Other Worlds
4. The Cosmos
5. Of Heavenly Things
6. Nebulae
7. Dancing in the Sun
Sun Ra: The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vol. I
by Matthew Wuethrich
A misconception: Sun Ra played free jazz. Critics and listeners usually lump Ra’s dissonant recordings into the free jazz category for one of two reasons. They either take his aggressive, wild sound textures to be essentially the same as that of other members of the '60s avant-garde; or there is just no good category for Ra. ...
Pharoah Sanders/ Hamid Drake/ Adam Rudolph: Spirits
by Derek Taylor
The New Thing of the 1960s was in many ways an insurgent movement- both building from and at the same time challenging the prevailing traditions in Jazz. Players like Pharoah Sanders and Archie Shepp were among the most outspoken and recognizable mutineers. But when the fires of insurrection abated in the 1970s, both men were criticized ...
