disc 7
don ayler sextet (january 11, 1969 in new york city)
01 - prophet john
02 - judge ye not
albert ayler quintet (july 28, 1970 in village vacances tourisme, saint-paul-de-vence, france)
03 - mothers/children
02 - untitled/incomplete
02 - C minor
02 - C minor / F minor
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disc 6
albert ayler quintet
june 30/july 1,
01 - truth is marching in/omega
02 - japan/universal indians
03 - our prayer
albert ayler quartet
july 21, 1967 ("coltrane funeral") in
04 - love cry/truth is marching in/our prayer
pharoah sanders ensemble w/albert ayler
january 21,
05 - venus/upper and lower egypt
albert ayler
ca. late august,
06 - untitled blues
07 - untitled sermon
08 - thank god for women
09 - new ghosts [demo fragments]
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disc 5
albert ayler quintet
november 3,
01 - spoken intro
02 - ghosts/bells
03 - truth is marching in
04 - omega
05 - our prayer
albert ayler quintet
november 8,
06 - spoken intro
07 - truth is marching in
08 - bells
09 - spirits rejoice
10 - free spiritual musics part iv
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disc 8
albert ayler
ca. early december
01 - interview with birger jørgensen
albert ayler
november 11,
02 - interview with birger jørgensen
albert ayler
july 27,
03 - interview with daniel caux
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disc 4
albert ayler quintet
april 17, 1966 in cleveland, ohio
01 - untitled/truth is marching in
02 - spirits
03 - medley: zion hill - spirits - spiritual bells
04 - untitled
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and now for something completely different. singing along to gary bartz? getting your strata-east groove on? let's end the weekend with some freaky sh*t and put all that to bed.
i think this was not actually ayler's last recording but it may have been his last for impulse, and was released after his death in 1970. i believe it was recorded at the same time as "music is the healing force of the universe." now i'm not always down with ayler... and i claim to be no expert. like many impulse sessions, this is not a record i would play every day, but when it hits right, it hits perfect.
the opening duet between ayler on bagpipe and canned heat's henry vestine on psychedelic fuzz guitar is just about perfect. ayler's own yoko ono/linda mccartney, mary maria, recites or half-sings some poetry, which just about sums up the haunting nature of this record, and of ayler himself. there's a whole lot of shrieking, and some blues, some really nice bass playing, and some more singing, including by ayler himself. as gato barbieri once said, "i sing sometimes, not because i like to sing but because the music needs singing. and when I scream with my horn, it's because the music needs screaming (from blog http://ileoxumare.blogspot.com/2008/03/albert-ayler-last-album-1971.html)
produced by ed michel
recorded august 1969
personnel:
albert ayler
mary maria (parks)
bobby few
henry vestine
bill folwell
stafford james
muhammad ali
tracklisting:
01 - untitled duet (1:28)
02 - again comes the rising of the sun (2:21)
03 - all love (9:02)
04 - toiling (5:08)
05 - desert blood (5:39)
06 - the birth of mirth (5:22)
07 - water music (6:18)
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albert ayler's beautiful 1970 set on his first day at the maeght foundation in france. liners include bass player steve tintweiss' comments on the performance. available commercially for the first time, and recorded during ayler's final concert series, this release shows ayler at "...the peak of his creative powers" and is a stunning testament to his genius and addition to his legacy. "one of the most advanced music minds on the planet" - wire magazine, nov 2004
this cd includes albert ayler's last recordings before he was found dead in the east river (new york city) in november, 1970.
recorded live in france at the fondation maeght in st. paul de vence (july 25th 1970).
personnel:
albert ayler: tenor saxophone, soprano, museme, vocal;
steve tintweiss: double bass;
allen blairman: drums;
mary maria: vocal, soprano saxophone.
tracklisting:
01 - music is the healing force of the universe (7:47)
02 - birth of mirth (10:38)
03 - masonic inborn (7:18)
04 - oh! love of life (9:31)
05 - island harvest (5:01)
06 - heart love (5:24)
07 - ghosts (10:53)
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