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1. THE FIRST RECORDINGS Volume 1 Tracks: I`ll Remember April, Rollins’ Tune, Tune Up, Free
Personnel: Albert Ayler (ts),Torbjorn Hultcrantz (b),Sune Spangberg (d)
Recorded:October 25, 1962 - Main Hall of the Academy of Music, Stockholm.
Released as The First Recordings or Something Different on Bird Notes (Sweden) BNLP1, Sonet (UK) SNTF604, SNTCD604, (Japan) ULS1635, Stateside (France) C.062-90012, GNP Crescendo (USA) GNPS-9022,DIW (Japan) 25001 and P-1 (picture disc). 2. THE FIRST RECORDINGS Volume 2 Tracks: Moanin’, Good Bait, I Didn’t Know What Time It Was,Softly As In A Morning Sunrise
Personnel and recording details the same as Volume One
Released on Bird Notes (Sweden) BNLP2, DIW (Japan) DIW-349 (CD). (There is some dispute over whether there is a third volume of ‘The First Recordings’. The Jeff Schwartz biography lists 4 more titles - 2 alternate takes of ‘Softly As In A Morning Sunrise’, ‘Lover Man’ and ‘Everything Happens To Me’ - and credits ‘Raben 1989’ for the discographical information. The Mike Hames 1983 discography does not mention a third volume. According to Jan Strom of Ayler Records in Sweden, Bengt Nordström (the ‘producer’ of the session) told him that everything that was recorded has been issued on Volumes 1 and 2.). 3. MY NAME IS ALBERT AYLER Tracks:Introduction by Albert Ayler, Bye, Bye Blackbird, Billie`s Bounce, Summertime,On Green Dolphin Street,C.T.
Personnel:Albert Ayler (ts), Niels Bronsted (p), Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen (b), Ronnie Gardiner (d)
Recorded: January 14, 1963 at Studios of Danish National Radio, Copenhagen
Released as My Name is Albert Ayler or Free Jazz on Debut (Denmark) DEB140, Fontana (UK) SFJ927, (Europe) 688.603ZL, (Japan) SFON7053, America (France) AM6100, Freedom (Japan) PA9709, Vogue (France) VG405.511016, Freedom (France) 511016, Black Lion 760211 (1996 CD release), Tokuma (Japan) TKCB-71262.
Tracks 2 - 6 released on Fantasy (USA) 86016 and "Introduction" may have been left off some of the international versions as well. 4. WITCHES AND DEVILS Tracks: Witches And Devils, Spirits, Holy Holy, Saints
Personnel: Albert Ayler (ts), Norman Howard (t), Henry Grimes (b), Earle Henderson (b), Sunny Murray (d)
Recorded: February 24, 1964 at Atlantic Studios, New York
Released as Witches and Devils or Spirits on Debut (Denmark) 146, Transatlantic (UK) TRA130, Polydor (UK) 2383.089, Freedom (France) FLP40101, (Germany) 28.424, (Japan) PA7030, Arista/Freedom (USA) AL1018, Black Lion (Europe) 65601[68], Freedom (UK) FLP 41018, King Records (Japan) K18P-9386, Freedom FCD-741018 (1990 CD release), Tokuma (Japan) TKCB-71264, 1201 Music (1999 24 bit remastered CD release), Breathless (Italy) Breath 52006 (2005 release as Spirits). 5. GOIN’ HOME Tracks: Goin` Home, Ol’ Man River (take 2), Down By The Riverside (take 6), Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (take 3), Deep River, When The Saints Go Marchin’ In, Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen, Ol’ Man River (take 1), Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (take 1), Down By The Riverside (take 5)
Personnel: Albert Ayler (ts,ss), Call Cobbs Jr.(p), Henry Grimes (b), Sunny Murray (d)
Recorded:February 24, 1964 at Atlantic Studios, New York
Released as Swing Low Sweet Spiritual (tracks 1,2,5-9) on Osmosis (Holland) 4001, DIW (Japan)1021, 25011 and 314. All tracks released as Goin’ Home on Black Lion (Europe) BLCD760197 (1994 CD release). 6. PROPHECY Tracks: Spirits, Wizard, Ghosts: first variation, Prophecy,Ghosts: second variation
Personnel: Albert Ayler (ts), Gary Peacock (b), Sunny Murray (d)
Recorded: June 14, 1964 at The Cellar Cafe, New York
Released as Prophecy on ESP 3030 (USA), SFX10711 (Japan), Base Record (Italy) ESP-3030. CD release coupled with Bells on ESP/ZYX (Germany) 1010-2 and Get Back (Italy) 1003CD. CD release (no coupling) on ESP (USA) ESPCD 3030. 7 ALBERT SMILES WITH SUNNY Tracks 1-5 as on Prophecy,. Sweet: first variation, Ghosts: third variation, Truth Is Marching In, No Head,Sweet: second variation
Personnel and recording details the same as Prophecy
Released as Albert Smiles With Sunny on In Respect IR39501. (Sometimes listed as “Live At Cellar Cafe”)
[The 5 tracks on the second CD of Albert Smiles With Sunny) are included in the 2004 release of HOLY GHOST: rare & unissued recordings (1962 - 70) 9 CD Spirit Box on Revenant Records RVN 213, under the following titles: Spirits [incomplete], Saints, Ghosts [incomplete], The Wizard, Children, Spirits [theme]] 8. SPIRITUAL UNITY Tracks: Ghosts: first variation, The Wizard, Spirits, Ghosts: second variation
Personnel: Albert Ayler (ts), Gary Peacock (b), Sunny Murray (d)
Recorded: July 10, 1964 in New York
Released as Spiritual Unity, ESP (USA) 1002, (Japan) MJ7101, BT5002, 15PJ2021, SFX10712, Fontana (UK) SFJL933, ESP Explosive (France) 538.107, (Europe) 858.122FPY, America (France) AM6000, Venus Records (Japan) TKCZ-36010, Calibre (Netherlands) ESPCD 1002, Get Back (Italy) GET1001 (vinyl), GET 1001CD, Abraxas (Italy) ESPCD 1002, ESP (USA) ESPCD 1002, (re-released in 2005, containing previously unreleased photos). Also included in The Complete Esp Disk Recordings, Abraxas (Italy) ESP1.
The Alternate Take of ‘Spirits’: The first pressings of Spiritual Unity contained the longer, 7:45, version of “Spirits”. This was then replaced with the shorter version which has appeared on all the subsequent issues, apart from the 1996 gold CD version released in Japan, (Venus Records TKCZ-36010), which contains both versions. 9. NEW YORK EYE AND EAR CONTROL Tracks: Dons Dawn, AY, ITT
Personnel: Albert Ayler (ts), Don Cherry (t), John Tchicai (as), Roswell Rudd (tb), Gary Peacock (b), Sunny Murray (d)
Recorded: July 17, 1964 at the home of Paul Haines, New York.
Released as New York Eye And Ear Control, ESP (USA) 1016, ESP/BASE (Italy) ESPS1016. CD release on Get Back (Italy) ESP10162, Calibre (Netherlands) ESPCD 1016, ESP (US) ESPCD 1016. Also included in The Complete Esp Disk Recordings, Abraxas (Italy) ESP1. 10. THE COPENHAGEN TAPES Tracks: Spirits, Vibrations, Saints, Mothers, Children, Spirits, Introduction, Vibrations, Saints, Spirits
Personnel: Albert Ayler (ts), Don Cherry (t), Gary Peacock (b), Sunny Murray (d)
Recorded: Tracks 1 - 6: September 3, 1964 at Club Montmartre, Copenhagen
Tracks 7 to 10: September 10, 1964, Danish radio studio, Copenhagen
Released as The Copenhagen Tapes, Ayler Records (Sweden) aylCD-033.
[Tracks 2, 4 and 5 previously released on Albert Ayler (Philology W 88) and Albert Ayler Live In Europe 1964 - 1966 (Landscape LS2-902, Landscape 902 (CD).
Tracks 1-6 included in the 2004 release of HOLY GHOST: rare & unissued recordings (1962 - 70) 9 CD Spirit Box on Revenant Records RVN 213.] 11. GHOSTS Tracks: Ghosts, Children, Holy Spirit, Ghosts, Vibrations, Mothers
Personnel: Albert Ayler (ts,as), Don Cherry (t), Gary Peacock (b), Sunny Murray (d)
Recorded: September 14, 1964 at a recording studio in Copenhagen
Released as Ghosts, Vibrations or Mothers and Children on Debut (Denmark) 144, Fontana (UK) SFJL925, (Europe) 688.606ZL, (Japan) SFON7054, Freedom FLP 40117,FLP 41000 (CD), (France) FNLP41000, (Germany) 162.302, Intercord (Germany) 24861-2U, Arista/Freedom (USA) AL1000, Trio (Japan) PA 9710, Black Lion (Europe) 65601, I Grandi del Jazz (Italy) GdJ12, Tobacco Road (Denmark) B/2525, Freedom FCD-741000. A cassette version was attached to a booklet produced in Italy by Fabbri Editore. 12. THE HILVERSUM SESSION Tracks: Angels, C.A.C., Ghosts, Infant Happiness, Spirits, No Name
Personnel: Albert Ayler (ts), Don Cherry (cornet), Gary Peacock (b), Sunny Murray (d)
Recorded: November 9, 1964 in a radio studio at Hilversum, The Netherlands
Released as The Hilversum Session on Osmosis (Holland) 6001, DIW (Japan) 25009, Coppens (Holland) 6001 (CD), DIW (Japan) 330 (CD), ESP (USA) 4035. 13. BELLS Tracks: Bells
Personnel: Albert Ayler (ts), Donald Ayler (t), Charles Tyler (as), Lewis Worrell (b), Sunny Murray (d)
Recorded: May 1, 1965 at Town Hall, New York
Released as Bells on ESP (US) 1010, (Japan) BT5004, Calibre (Netherlands) ESPCD 1010, ESP (US) ESPCD 1010. The original LP was released as one side on coloured vinyl, or as the sleeve has it: “Transparent disk complete on one side”. There are a number of different variations including ‘yellow vinyl, black sleeve with white lettering’ and `transparent vinyl, white sleeve, red lettering`.
Bells has also been given a CD release coupled with Prophecy on ESP/ZYX (Germany)1010-2 and Get Back (Italy) GET 1003CD. Get Back also issued Bells with Prophecy as a double LP GET 1003, and a limited edition of Bells in its original form (one-sided on translucent plastic) GET 1003LTD.
Also included in The Complete Esp Disk Recordings, Abraxas (Italy) ESP1. 14. SPIRITS REJOICE Tracks: Spirits Rejoice, Holy Family, D.C., Angels, Prophet
Personnel: Albert Ayler (ts), Donald Ayler (t), Charles Tyler (as), Henry Grimes (b), Gary Peacock (b), Sunny Murray (d) Call Cobbs (harpsichord)
Recorded: September 23, 1965 at Judson Hall, New York
Released as Spirits Rejoice ESP 1020, ESP Explosive (France) 538.111, (Japan) SMJ7492, BT5003, SFX10713, ESP/BASE (Italy) ESPS1020, Get Back (Italy) GET1006 (vinyl) and GET1006CD, Calibre (Netherlands) ESPCD 1020, ESP (US) ESPCD 1020. Also included in The Complete Esp Disk Recordings, Abraxas (Italy) ESP1.
Track 2, ‘Holy Family’, was also issued on an ESP-disk 45 rpm single (ESP 4506), as the B side to Ornette Coleman’s ‘Sadness’ from Town Hall, 1962 (ESP 1006). 15. SONNY’S TIME NOW Tracks: Virtue, Black Art, Justice, The Lie
Personnel: Albert Ayler (ts), Don Cherry (t), Henry Grimes (b), Lewis Worrell (b), Sunny Murray (d), Leroi Jones (recitation on track 2 )
Recorded: November, 1965 in New York
Tracks 1-3 released as Sonny`s Time Now on Jihad 663. Reissued on DIW (Japan) 25002, with the additional track “The Lie”, added as a 45” single.
All tracks included on the CD release on DIW (Japan) DIW-355. 16. LIVE AT SLUG’S SALOON Tracks: Truth Is Marching In, Our Prayer, Bells, Ghosts, Initiation
Personnel: Albert Ayler (ts), Donald Ayler (t) Michel Sampson (violin), Lewis Worrell (b), Ronald Shannon Jackson (d)
Recorded: May 1, 1966 at Slug`s Saloon, New York
Tracks 1 and 2 released as Albert Ayler Quintet Live at Slug's Saloon Volume 1, ESP Base (Italy) 3031, DIW (Japan) 1001, and as Truth is Marching In, Magic Music (Germany) LP10003, and CD30003.
Tracks 3 and 4 released as Albert Ayler Quintet Live at Slug's Saloon Volume 2, ESP Base (Italy) 3032, DIW (Japan) 1002, and as Black Revolt, Magic Music (Germany) LP10004, and CD30004.
Tracks 1 - 4 (in the order 3,4,1,2) released as the CD, In Memory of Albert Ayler, Jazz Door 1203, and (in the order 1 - 4) as Complete Live At Slug’s Saloon, Lonehill Jazz (Spain) LHJ 10101.
Tracks 1 - 3 released as Slug's Saloon Volume 1, ESP (USA) ESPCD 3031.
Tracks 4 - 5 released as Slug's Saloon Volume 2, ESP (USA) ESPCD 3032.
All tracks issued as Albert Ayler at Slug’s Saloon 1966 ESP-DISK (Japan) TKCZ-79158, and as
Slugs Saloon, Get Back (Italy) GET 1018CD (2 CD set), GET 1018LP (2 LP set), Fruit Tree 841 (2 CD set) and ESP 4025 (2 CD set). 17. ALBERT AYLER LIVE IN EUROPE 1964 - 1966 Tracks: Mothers, Children, Holy Spirits, Our Prayer, Ghosts / Bells, Truth Is Marching In, Omega
Personnel: Tracks 1-3: Albert Ayler (ts), Don Cherry (t), Gary Peacock (b), Sunny Murray (d)
Tracks 4-7: Albert Ayler (ts), Donald Ayler (t), Michel Sampson (v), Bill Folwell (b), Beaver Harris (d)
Recorded: Tracks 1-3: September 3, 1964 at the Cafe Montmartre, Copenhagen
Tracks 4-7: November 3, 1966 at the Berlin Jazz Festival
Tracks 1-3. 5-7 released as Albert Ayler on Philology 88 and as Albert Ayler Live In Europe 1964 - 1966 on Landscape (France) LS2-902.
Tracks 4-7 released as The Berlin Concerts - 1966 on Relyable (Italy) 001.
All tracks released as Albert Ayler Live In Europe 1964 - 1966 on Landscape 902 (CD).
(The recording date given for Tracks 1-3 is November 5th. 1964. They are actually part of the September 3rd session subsequently released as The Copenhagen Tapes. Track 3 is also mistitled - it is Vibrations.)
[Tracks 1-3 included in the 2002 release of The Copenhagen Tapes on Ayler Records (Sweden) aylCD-033. All tracks included in the 2004 release of HOLY GHOST: rare & unissued recordings (1962 - 70) 9 CD Spirit Box on Revenant Records RVN 213.] 18. LORRACH/PARIS 1966 Tracks: Bells, Jesus, Our Prayer, Spirits, Holy Ghost, Ghost (1st Variation), Ghost, Holy Family
Personnel: Albert Ayler (ts), Donald Ayler (t), Michel Sampson (v), Bill Folwell (b), Beaver Harris (d)
Recorded: Tracks 1 to 5: November 7, 1966 at Lorrach, Germany
Tracks 6 to 8: November 13, 1966 at the Paris Jazz Festival
Released as Lorrach/Paris 1966 on Hat HUT (Switzerland) 3500, 2009, CD6039. 2002 CD release: hatOLOGY 573.
hatART 2009 is a boxed set containing an LP of the Lorrach concert and a 12” EP (running at 45rpm) of the Paris concert. Tracks 1 to 5 released as Jesus on Jazz Galore (Italy) 1002.
(NOTE: On Jesus the order of tracks is 3-4-5-1-2 and there is some variation in the titles. Track 3 is ‘Spirits Rejoice’, Track 4 is ‘Our Prayer’ and Track 5 is ‘Holy Ghosts’. In fact Track 3 begins as ‘Our Prayer’ then goes into ‘Spirits Rejoice’, Track 4 is ‘Ghosts’ and Track 5 is ‘Truth Is Marching In’. Track 2 (entitled ‘Jesus’ on all releases) is actually ‘Prophet’.) 19. ALBERT AYLER IN GREENWICH VILLAGE Tracks: For John Coltrane, Change Has Come, Truth Is Marching In, Our Prayer
Personnel: Tracks 1-2: Albert Ayler (as,ts), Donald Ayler (t), Joel Freedman (cello), Alan Silva (b), Bill Folwell (b), Beaver Harris (d)
Tracks 3-4: Albert Ayler (ts), Donald Ayler (t), Michel Sampson (v), Bill Folwell (b), Henry Grimes (b), Beaver Harris (d)
Recorded: Tracks 1-2: February 26, 1967 at The Village Theatre, New York
Tracks 3 and 4: December 18, 1966 at The Village Vanguard, New York
Released as Albert Ayler Live In Greenwich Village on Impulse A(S)9155, 2546352 (CD), MACD-39123, (Italy) IMP431, (Japan) IMP88064, YP8548, Jasmine (UK) JASM70. 20. THE VILLAGE CONCERTS Tracks: Light In Darkness, Heavenly Home, Spiritual Rebirth, Infinite Spirit, Omega Is The Alpha, Spirits Rejoice, Divine Peacemaker, Angels
Personnel: Tracks 1-5: Albert Ayler (ts), Donald Ayler (t), Joel Freedman (cello), Alan Silva (b), Bill Folwell (b), Beaver Harris (d)
Tracks 6-7: Albert Ayler (ts), Donald Ayler (t), Michel Sampson (v), Bill Folwell (b), Henry Grimes (b), Beaver Harris (d)
Track 8: Albert Ayler (ts), Call Cobbs (p)
Recorded: Tracks 1-5: February 26, 1967 at The Village Theatre, New York
Tracks 6-8: December 18, 1966 at The Village Vanguard, New York
Released as The Dedication Series/Vol. VII: The Village Concerts on Impulse IA9336/2, MCA2-4129. 21. LIVE IN GREENWICH VILLAGE: THE COMPLETE IMPULSE RECORDINGS Tracks: All the tracks on the 2 albums above (Albert Ayler in Greenwich Village and The Village Concerts) were reissued on a double CD in 1998. There are 2 additional tracks: Holy Ghost and Universal Thoughts.
Personnel: Personnel and recording details for the 12 original tracks are the same.
On Holy Ghost: Albert Ayler (ts), Donald Ayler (t), Joel Freedman (cello), Lewis Worrell (b), Sunny Murray (d)
Recorded: March 28, 1965 at The Village Gate, New York
On Universal Thoughts: Albert Ayler (ts), Donald Ayler (t), George Stell (tb), Joel Freedman (cello), Bill Folwell (b), Alan Silva (b), Beaver Harris (d)
Recorded: February 26, 1967 at The Village Theatre, New York
Released as Live In Greenwich Village: The Complete Impulse Recordings on Impulse IMP22732.
Track 1 previously released on the following compilations: Impulse (USA) A(S)-90, HMV (UK) CLP1932, Pathe (France) 2C.154-92336, as The New Wave in Jazz, Impulse AS-9257-2 as Re-evaluation: The Impulse Years, AS-1024 as La Saga Heroique d'Albert Ayler, ASD9228 as Energy Essentials. 22. LOVE CRY Tracks: Love Cry, Ghosts, Omega, Dancing Flowers, Bells, Love Flower, Love Cry II, Zion Hill (alternate take), Universal Indians (alternate take), Zion Hill, Universal Indians
Personnel: Albert Ayler (ts,as,voc), Donald Ayler (t), Call Cobbs (harpsichord), Alan Silva (b), Milford Graves (d)
Recorded: Tracks 1-6: August 31, 1967, Tracks 7-11: February 13, 1968 at Capitol Studios, New York
Tracks 1-6, 10-11 released as Love Cry on Impulse A(S)-9165, GRD-108 (CD) and (Japan) IMP88072, YP8549.
All tracks released on the CD version of Love Cry on Impulse GRD-108 (CD) and Impulse GRP 11082.
Tracks 2, 6 and 10 released as an EP on the Italian “Fratelli Fabbri Editore” label. 23. NEW GRASS Tracks: Message From Albert, New Grass, New Generation, Sun Watcher, New Ghosts, Heart Love, Everybody's Movin', Free At Last
Personnel: Albert Ayler (ts,bagpipe chanter,ocarina,voc), Call Cobbs (p,organ,harpsichord), Bill Folwell (bass guitar), Bernard "Pretty" Purdie (d), The Soul Singers (Rose Marie McCoy and Mary Maria (Parks)) (voc),A horn section was added later to tracks 1, 3, 6, 7 and 8, consisting of: Burt Collins, Joe Newman (t), Garnett Brown (tb), Seldon Powell (ts, flute), Buddy Lucas (bs), Bert DeCoteaux (arranger, conductor)
Recorded: September 5, 1968 in New York (Horn section recorded September 6, 1968, New York)
Released as New Grass on Impulse AS-9175, (UK) MIPL/SIPL519, (Japan) IMJ80015, (CD versions) MVCJ-19051, MVCI-23041. 2005 CD release (US) B000426902 (remastered, digipack format).
A 45 rpm single (Impulse 45-273) was released with ‘Free At Last’ on the A-side and ‘New Ghosts’ on the B. A 45 rpm single (with a bizarre sleeve) was also released in France, with “New Generation” as the A-side and “Heart Love” as the B, on EMI/$tateside C006-90158. 24. MUSIC IS THE HEALING FORCE OF THE UNIVERSE Tracks: Music is the Healing Force of the Universe, Masonic Inborn, A Man is Like a Tree, Oh! Love of Life, Island Harvest, Drudgery
Personnel: Albert Ayler (ts,voc,bagpipes,ocarina), Bobby Few (p), Stafford James (b), Bill Folwell (b, bass guitar), Muhammad Ali (d), Mary Maria (Parks) (voc), Henry Vestine (electric guitar}
Recorded: Tracks 1,3: August 26, 1969, tracks 2,4-6: August 27, 1969 at Plaza Sound Studios, New York
Released as Music Is The Healing Force Of The Universe on Impulse AS-9191. CD version released March 2003, on Verve/Impulse 0653832. 25. THE LAST ALBUM Tracks: Untitled Duet, Again Comes The Rising Of The Sun, All Love, Toiling, Desert Blood, Birth Of Mirth, Water Music
Personnel: Albert Ayler (ts,bagpipe chanter,voc), Henry Vestine (electric guitar), Bobby Few (p}, Bill Folwell (b,bass guitar), Stafford James (b), Muhammad Ali (d), Mary Maria (Parks) (voc)
Recorded: Tracks 2,5: August 26, 1969, tracks 3,4,6 and 7:: August 27, 1969, track 1: August 29, 1969 at Plaza Sound Studios, New York
Released as The Last Album on Impulse AS9208, (Japan) SR3122.CD release on MCA MVCZ122. 26. LIVE ON THE RIVIERA Tracks: Music Is The Healing Force Of The Universe, Birth Of Mirth, Masonic Inborn, Oh! Love Of Life, Island Harvest, Heart Love, Ghosts
Personnel: Albert Ayler (ts,ss,musette,voc),Mary Maria (Parks) (ss,voc),Steve Tintweiss (b),Allen Blairman (d)
Recorded: July 25,1970 at St. Paul de Vence, France
Released as Albert Ayler Quintet 1970 - Live on Blu Jazz (Italy) BJ023CD and in 2005 as Live On The Riviera on ESP-Disk (US) ESP 4001. 27. ALBERT AYLER - NUITS DE LA FONDATION MAEGHT. Tracks: In Heart Only, Spirits, Holy Family, Spirits Rejoice, Truth Is Marching In, Universal Message, Spiritual Reunion, Music Is The Healing Force Of The Universe
Personnel: Albert Ayler (ts), Call Cobbs (p), Steve Tintweiss (b), Allen Blairman (d), Mary Maria (Parks) (voc)
Recorded: July 27, 1970 at St. Paul de Vence, France
Tracks 1 to 4 released as Albert Ayler - Nuits de la Fondation Maeght: Volume 1 on Shandar (France) SR10.000 and SH 83503, RCA (Japan) SHP6201, Jazz View 004 (CD), Water 501 (LP).
Tracks 5 to 8 released as Albert Ayler - Nuits de la Fondation Maeght: Volume 2 on Shandar (France) SR10.004 and SH 83504, RCA (Japan) SHP 6202, Jazz View 005 (CD), Water 502 (LP).
All tracks issued on Shandar (France) double LP 83503/83504. In 2002 on single CD, Water 103, and in 2005 as Nuits de la Fondation Maeght 1970 on Lonehill Jazz (Spain) LHJ10215. 28. HOLY GHOST: rare & unissued recordings (1962 - 70) 9 CD Spirit Box Disc 1
Tracks: Sonnymoon for Two, Summertime, On Green Dolphin Street
Personnel: Herbert Katz Quintet: Herbert Katz (guitar),Albert Ayler (ts),Teuvo Suojärvi (p),Heikki Annala (b),Martti Äijänen (d)
Recorded: June 30, 1962 Helsinki, Finland
Tracks: Spoken introductions by broadcast announcer and Borge Roger Henrichsen, Four Personnel: Cecil Taylor Quartet: Cecil Taylor (p),Jimmy Lyons (as),Albert Ayler (ts), Sunny Murray (d)
Recorded: possibly November 16, 1962, Copenhagen, Denmark
Tracks: Spirits [incomplete], Saints, Ghosts [incomplete]
Personnel: Albert Ayler Trio: Albert Ayler (ts), Gary Peacock (b), Sunny Murray (d)
Recorded: June 14, 1964, Cellar Café, New York City Disc 2
Tracks: The Wizard, Children, Spirits [theme]
Personnel: Albert Ayler Trio: Albert Ayler (ts),Gary Peacock (b), Sunny Murray (d)
Recorded: June 14, 1964, Cellar Café, New York City
Tracks: Spoken radio introduction, Spirits, Vibrations, [tune Q], Mothers, Children, Spirits [theme]
Personnel: Albert Ayler Quartet: Albert Ayler (ts), Don Cherry (cornet),Gary Peacock (b), Sunny Murray (d)
Recorded: September 3, 1964, Café Montmartre, Copenhagen, Denmark
Tracks: Untitled
Personnel: Burton Greene Quintet: Burton Greene (p), Albert Ayler (ts),Frank Smith (ts),Steve Tintweiss (b),Rashied Ali (d)
Recorded: February, 1966, Slugs’, New York City Disc 3
Tracks: First Set (16/4/66): Spoken introduction by Peter Bergman, Spirits Rejoice, D.C., Untitled minor waltz, Our Prayer. Second Set (16/4/66): Spoken introduction by Peter Bergman, [F# tune], Ghosts. First Set (17/4/66): Spirits Rejoice, Prophet / Ghosts / Spiritual Bells,Our Prayer / Spirits Rejoice
Personnel: Albert Ayler Quintet: Albert Ayler (ts),Don Ayler (t),Michel Samson (v),Mutawef Shaheed [then known as Clyde Shy] (b),Ronald Shannon Jackson (d)
Recorded: Tracks 1 to 8: April 16, 1966, La Cave, Cleveland. Tracks 9 to 11: April 17, 1966, La Cave, Cleveland Disc 4
Tracks: Second Set (17/4/66):Untitled / Truth Is Marching In, Spirits, Zion Hill, Spirits, Spiritual Bells, [F# tune]
Personnel: Albert Ayler Quintet: Albert Ayler (ts),Don Ayler (t),Frank Wright (ts),Michel Samson (v),Mutawef Shaheed (b),Ronald Shannon Jackson (d)
Recorded: April 17, 1966, La Cave, Cleveland Disc 5
Tracks: Concert announcement by Ralf Schulte-Bahrenberg, Ghosts / Bells, Truth Is Marching In, Omega, Our Prayer, Spoken introduction by Peter de Wit, Truth Is Marching In, Bells, Spirits Rejoice, “Free Spiritual Music”, part IV
Personnel: Albert Ayler Quintet: Albert Ayler (ts),Don Ayler (t),Michel Samson (v),Bill Folwell (b),Beaver Harris (d)
Recorded: Tracks 1 to 5: November 3, 1966, Berlin Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany. Tracks 6 to 10: November 8, 1966, De Doelen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Disc 6
Tracks: Truth Is Marching In / Omega, Japan / Universal Indians, Our Prayer
Personnel: Albert Ayler Quintet: Albert Ayler (ts, ss [track 3], as [track 3], voc [track 2]),Don Ayler (t), Michel Samson (v),Bill Folwell (b),Milford Graves (d)
Recorded: June 30 / July 1, 1967, Newport Jazz Festival, Freebody Park, Newport, Rhode Island
Tracks: Love Cry / Truth Is Marching In / Our Prayer
Personnel: Albert Ayler Quartet: Albert Ayler (ts, voc),Don Ayler (t),Richard Davis (b),Milford Graves (d)
Recorded: July 21, 1967, St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, New York City (Recorded at the funeral of John Coltrane)
Tracks: Venus / Upper and Lower Egypt
Personnel: Pharoah Sanders: Pharoah Sanders (ts),Chris Capers (t), Unknown (as), Albert Ayler (ts), Unknown (ts), Dave Burrell (p), Sirone (b), Roger Blank (d)
Recorded: January 21, 1968, Renaissance Ballroom, New York City
Tracks: Untitled blues, Untitled sermon, Thank God for Women, New Ghosts [demo fragments]
Personnel: Albert Ayler: Albert Ayler (ts, voc, solo recitation [track 7]),Call Cobbs (p, Rocksichord),Bill Folwell (electric bass guitar),Bernard Purdie (d), Mary Parks (voc, prob. tambourine),Vivian Bostic (voc)
Recorded: Late August, 1968, New York City area Disc 7
Tracks: Prophet John, Judge Ye Not
Personnel: Don Ayler Sextet: Don Ayler (t), Albert Ayler (as), Sam Rivers (ts), Richard Johnson (p),Richard Davis, Ibrahim Wahen (b),Muhammad Ali (d)
Recorded: January 11, 1969, Town Hall, New York City
Tracks: Mothers / Children, Untitled [incomplete], Untitled [C minor], Untitled [F minor/C minor]
Personnel: Albert Ayler Quartet: Albert Ayler (ts), Call Cobbs (p),Steve Tintweiss (b), Allen Blairman (d),prob. Mary Maria (tambourine, hand-clapping)
Recorded: prob. July 28, 1970, La Colle sur Loup, Saint Paul de Vence, France Disc 8
1. Albert Ayler interview with Birger Jørgensen for Afterbeat program,
Recorded: early December, 1964 in Copenhagen, Denmark
2. Albert Ayler interview with Birger Jørgensen for Afterbeat program
Recorded: on or around November 11, 1966 in Copenhagen, Denmark
3. Albert Ayler interview with Daniel Caux for France Culture
Recorded: July 27, 1970 in Saint Paul de Vence, France Disc 9
1. Albert Ayler interview with Kiyoshi Koyama for Swing Journal
Recorded: July 25, 1970 in Saint Paul de Vence, France
2. Don and Mocqui Cherry interview with Daniel Caux
Recorded: 1971 in Paris Disc 10
[Bonus disc]
Tracks: Tenderly, Leap Frog
Personnel: U. S. Army 76th A. G. Band: Larry Drabik,? Long,? Holman (t),John Pajak,Max Marable, Thomas Blagg (tb),Willie Gordon (french horn),Albert Ayler,Leo Howard,Ralph Sgrillo,Robert Throne,? Elseroad (saxes),? Cushman (p),? Babcock (guitar),? Raines (b),Tony Sarmento,Paul Tolar (d)
Recorded: September 14, 1960,Rehearsal session Released (5/10/04) as HOLY GHOST: rare & unissued recordings (1962 - 70) 9 CD Spirit Box on Revenant Records RVN 213.
[Disc 1, tracks 6 to 8 and Disc 2, tracks 1 to 3 previously released on Albert Smiles With Sunny (In Respect IR 39501).
Disc 2, tracks 4 to 9 previously released on The Copenhagen Tapes (Ayler Records aylCD-033).
Disc 2, tracks 5, 7, 8 and Disc 5, tracks 2 to 4 previously released on Albert Ayler (Philology W 88)
Disc 2, tracks 5, 7, 8 and Disc 5, tracks 2 to 5 previously released on Albert Ayler Live In Europe 1964 - 1966 (Landscape LS2-902, Landscape 902 (CD).
Disc 5, tracks 2 to 5 previously released on The Berlin Concerts - 1966 on Relyable (Italy) 001.] As well as the 9 CDs and the bonus CD, the box also contains the following:
A 208 page, lavishly illustrated, hardback book containing essays by Val Wilmer, Amiri Baraka, Ben Young, Marc Chaloin, Daniel Caux and Carl Woideck, extensive information on CD tracks and sidemen, a section of eyewitness accounts, and a 16 page appendix entitled ‘Sightings’ which amounts to a complete chronological listing of Ayler’s musical career.
A facsimile of the Paul Haines booklet which was included with the early copies of ‘Spiritual Unity’.
A special digest version of The Cricket containing Ayler’s To Mr. Jones - I Had A Vision.
A copy of a Slugs’ flier.
A photo of Albert, aged 12.
A copy of a note from Albert Ayler to Paul Karting.
And a dead flower... Holy Ghost - Triple LP In March 2005 Revenant released a vinyl edition of selected tracks from the Holy Ghost box set - three LPs on clear vinyl, including a poster and postcard.
Tracks:
Side A:
1. [tune Q]
Albert Ayler Quartet: Albert Ayler (ts), Don Cherry (cornet), Gary Peacock (b), Sunny Murray (d)
September 3, 1964 - Café Montmartre, Copenhagen, Denmark
(Disc 2, track 7)
2. [untitled]
3. D.C. (5:58)
Albert Ayler Quintet: Albert Ayler (ts), Don Ayler (t), Michel Samson (vln), Mutawef Shaheed (b), Ronald Shannon Jackson (d)
April 16, 1966 - La Cave, Cleveland
(Disc 3, track 3)
Side B:
1.[untitled minor waltz] (7:04)
Albert Ayler Quintet: Albert Ayler (ts), Don Ayler (t), Michel Samson (vln), Mutawef Shaheed (b), Ronald Shannon Jackson (d)
April 16, 1966 - La Cave, Cleveland
(Disc 3, track 4)
2. Prophet/Ghosts/Spiritual Bells (14:33)
Albert Ayler Quintet: Albert Ayler (ts), Don Ayler (t), Michel Samson (vln), Mutawef Shaheed (b), Ronald Shannon Jackson (d)
April 17, 1966 - La Cave, Cleveland
(Disc 10, track 4)
Side C:
1. [F#Tune]
2. Ghosts/Bells (11:15)
Albert Ayler Quintet: Albert Ayler (ts), Don Ayler (t), Michel Samson (vln), Bill Folwell (b), Beaver Harris (d)
November 3, 1966 - Berlin Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany
(Disc 5, track 2)
Side D:
1. Truth Is Marching In
2. "Free Spiritual Music", part IV (6:44)
Albert Ayler Quintet: Albert Ayler (ts), Don Ayler (t), Michel Samson (vln), Bill Folwell (b), Beaver Harris (d)
November 8, 1966 - De Doelen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
(Disc 5, track 10)
3. Japan/Universal Indians (5:41)
Albert Ayler Quintet: Albert Ayler (ts,voc), Don Ayler (t), Michel Samson (vln), Bill Folwell (b), Milford Graves (d)
June 30 / July 1, 1967 - Newport Jazz Festival, Rhode Island
(Disc 6, track 2)
Side E:
1. Four (21:46)
Cecil Taylor Quartet: Cecil Taylor (p), Jimmy Lyons (as), Albert Ayler (ts), Sunny Murray (d)
November 16, 1962 - Copenhagen, Denmark
(Disc1, track 5)
Side F:
1. Venus/Upper and Lower Egypt (22:59)
Pharoah Sanders: Chris Capers (t), unknown (as), Albert Ayler, Pharoah Sanders, unknown (ts), Dave Burrell (p), Sirone (b), Roger Blank (d)
January 21, 1968 - Renaissance Ballroom, New York City
(Disc 6, track 5) Released (31/3/05) as HOLY GHOST: Volume One on Revenant Records REV 6011LP. 29. COMPILATIONS AND SAMPLERS The compilation Re-evaluation: The Impulse Years on Impulse AS-9257-2 contains the following tracks: Holy Ghost (from Live In Greenwich Village: The Complete Impulse Recordings), For John Coltrane (from Albert Ayler In Greenwich Village), Love Cry, Zion Hill and Universal Indians (from Love Cry), New Ghosts and Sun Watcher (from New Grass), Oh! Love Of Life and Drudgery (from Music Is The Healing Force Of The Universe), Again Comes the Rising of the Sun and Water Music (from The Last Album). The compilation La Saga Heroique D’Albert Ayler on Impulse AS-1024, Pathe (France) 2C.154-92336/7 contains the following tracks: Holy Ghost (from Live In Greenwich Village: The Complete Impulse Recordings), For John Coltrane and Our Prayer (from Albert Ayler In Greenwich Village), Love Cry, Ghosts, Omega, Bells, Zion Hill and Universal Indians (from Love Cry), Free At Last, New Generation and Message From Albert (from New Grass), Island Harvest and Drudgery (from Music Is The Healing Force Of The Universe). The compilation Albert Ayler: The Impulse Story released 6/6/2006, on Verve/Impulse, catalog #B000656002 contains the following tracks: Holy Ghost, Truth Is Marching In and Angels (from Live In Greenwich Village: The Complete Impulse Recordings), Love Cry, and Bells (from Love Cry), New Grass / Message From Albert and Free At Last (from New Grass), Music Is The Healing Force Of The Universe (from Music Is The Healing Force Of The Universe), Water Music and Untitled Duet (from The Last Album). The 4 CD boxset, The Complete Esp Disk Recordings on Abraxas (Italy) ESP1, includes the four original Ayler ESP albums, Spiritual Unity, Bells, New York Eye And Ear Control and Spirits Rejoice. The box set was released at the end of 2005 and was not authorised by the ESP company. In December 2005, the Portuguese newspaper Publico issued an Ayler compilation in its ‘Let’s Jazz’ series. There were 31 ‘Let’s Jazz’ titles, issued weekly, and ‘Albert Ayler’ was number 29. It consists of a 60 page hardback book, CD sized, mainly consisting of photographs, with a CD containing the following tracks: Holy Ghost, Spirits Rejoice and For John Coltrane (from Live In Greenwich Village: The Complete Impulse Recordings), New Grass / Message From Albert, Heart Love and New Ghosts (from New Grass), Drudgery, Masonic Inborn and Island Harvest (from Music Is The Healing Force Of The Universe). The following tracks have appeared on compilations or record label samplers:
Goin’ Home and Down By The Riverside from Goin’ Home appear on Black Lion Connoisseur / Lions Abroad, Vol. 1: Tenor Titans Black Lion 7620 (CD).
Ghosts (short version) from Ghosts appeared on Arista (USA) 1 (sampler)
Ghosts (long version) and Children from Ghosts appeared on Original Jazz Legends, Vo. 1 - Torrid Trumpeters 1201 Music 1001-2.
Saints from Witches and Devils appeared on Arista (USA) AFSO 2 (sampler)
Holy Ghost which is currently available on Live In Greenwich Village: The Complete Impulse Recordings originally appeared on the compilation LP, The New Wave In Jazz, issued on Impulse (USA) A(S)-90, HMV (UK) CLP1932.
It was also included on Energy Essentials ASD9228 and The Revolutionary Hymns ITM 1450(D) (double CD).
A short extract of Bells from Bells appeared on ESP 1033 (sampler).
A 1 minute extract from Spiritual Unity appeared on ESP 1051 (sampler)
Spirits Rejoice from Spirits Rejoice appeared on Base Records (Italy) ESP 1000-S (sampler LP) attached to the Italian magazine ‘Musica Jazz’ (April 1982).
Prophet from Spirits Rejoice appeared on The World Of Jazz, on ZYX-Music (Germany) ZYX 11002-2.
Holy Family from Spirits Rejoice was issued on an ESP-disk 45 rpm single (ESP 4506), as the B side to Ornette Coleman’s ‘Sadness’ from Town Hall, 1962 (ESP 1006).
Ghost (1st variation) from Lorrach/Paris 1966 appeared (in an edited version) on John Handy / Albert Ayler on I Giganti del Jazz (Italy) GJ6 and Gato Barbieri & Don Cherry/Albert Ayler/John Handy Quintet on Europa Jazz (Italy) 1006 and Jazz Spectrum 2.
Change Has Come from Albert Ayler In Greenwich Village appeared on No Energy Crisis Impulse AS9267-2,The Revolutionary Hymns ITM 1450(D) (double CD) and The Best Of MCA / Impulse: Fire Into Music #3 MCA 8032.
Our Prayer from Albert Ayler In Greenwich Village appeared on Dead And Gone #1: Funeral Marches on Trikont (Germany) and The House That Trane Built - The Best of Impulse Records, Verve/Impulse, catalog #B000674402, released 6/6/2006.
Ghosts from Love Cry appeared on The Saxophone ABC/Impulse ASH-9253-3 and The Drums ABC/Impulse ASH 9272-3.
Love Cry (alternate take) from Love Cry appeared on Impulse! Story, a sampler attached to the Italian magazine ‘Musica Jazz’ (April 1995).
Heart Love from New Grass appeared on L’ Homme Blessé, a 12”, 45 rpm record on the French Claap Premiere label, featuring tracks from the soundtrack of the 1983 film directed by Patrice Chéreau.
Music is the Healing Force of the Universe from Music is the Healing Force of the Universe appeared on Transcendence: Impulse in the Spiritual Groove released in 1999 on Impulse! 12432.
Untitled Blues from Holy Ghost appeared on The Wire Tapper 11, a sampler attached to ‘The Wire’ magazine, No. 244, June 2004.
Spirits [from ?] appeared on 100 Years of Jazz Capriccio 40012 (10 CD box set) released in 2004. Extracts from the following titles appeared on the 2007 sampler DVD from ESP, Smorgasbord, which is available as a bonus disc with Don Cherry “Live at Cafe Montmartre 1966” (ESP4032):
Ghosts: first variation and The Wizard from Spiritual Unity, Bells from Bells, AY and ITT from New York Eye and Ear Control, Spirits Rejoice and Holy Family from Spirits Rejoice, Spirits and Prophecy from Prophecy, The Truth Is Marching In and Our Prayer from Live at Slug’s, Music Is the Healing Force of the Universe and Birth of Mirth from Live on the Riviera. ___ Click here to download this list as a zipped text file. |
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