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  • A concert of the year two thousand

    George Stell sent me a copy of Michael Zwerin's review of the February 25th, 1967 concert by Albert

  • Annette Peacock’s Avant-R&B

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  • Science, jazz, and the “unknown” trombone player

    “_I was an avid listener to an FM radio program that disk jockey Ed Beach had every morning. 

  • Vibrations

    My 22-month old daughter has learned how to get a record onto the turntable and start it.  Of co

  • Music is the healing force of the universe

    I picked up “Lorrach, Paris 1966” in a local CD shop during the spring of 2006 (which I now r

    • Biography Albert Ayler

    Albert Ayler
    Albert Ayler (July 13, 1936 ? November 1970) was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist, singer and composer. Albert Ayler was the most primal of the free jazz musicians of the 1960s; John Litweiler wrote that "never before or since has there been such naked aggression in jazz" He possessed a deep blistering tone—achieved by using the stiffest plastic reeds he could find on his tenor saxophone—and a broad, pathos-filled vibrato that came right out of church music. His trio and quartet records of 1964, like Spiritual Unity and The Hilversum Session, show him advancing the improvisational notions of John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman into abstract realms where timbre, not harmony and melody, are the music's backbone. His ecstatic music of 1965 and 1966, like "Spirits Rejoice" and "Truth is Marching In" has been compared by critics to the sound of a Salvation Army brass band, and involved simple, march-lik

    Discography

    Love Cry
    Love Cry


    Slug's Saloon - May 1, 1966
    Slug's Saloon - May 1, 1966


    Prophecy
    Prophecy


    Spiritual Unity
    Spiritual Unity


    Ghosts
    Ghosts


    Spirits Rejoice
    Spirits Rejoice


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