First Recordings


	*The First Recordings*



		discography



	[Bird Notes BNLP1]



[LP cover of Sonet SNTF604]


	[LP cover of DIW 25001]


		[Picture disc, DIW P-1]


	[Bird Notes BNLP1, white labels]


	[Bird Notes BNLP1, white labels, back cover]



		[LP cover of Stateside C.062-90012] Back cover with Lovecraft quotes.


	[CD cover of Sonet SNTCD604]


[Side A of Picture disc, DIW P-1]



			[LP cover of Crescendo 9022]


		[Side B of Picture disc, DIW P-1]

THE FIRST RECORDINGS

Volume One

Tracks

1. I`ll Remember April (Raye, de Paul, Johnson) (16:51)

2. Rollins’ Tune (Sonny Rollins) (6:45)

3. Tune Up (Miles Davis) (5:15)

4. Free (Albert Ayler) (9:16)

Personnel

Albert Ayler (tenor saxophone)

Torbjorn Hultcrantz (bass)

Sune Spangberg (drums)

Recording Details

October 25, 1962

Main Hall of the Academy of Music, Stockholm.

Release Details

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, P-1 (picture disc).

[CD cover of DIW-349]

Volume Two

Tracks

1. Softly As In A Morning Sunrise (Romberg, Hammerstein II) (8:18)

2. I Didn’t Know What Time It Was (Rodgers, Hart) (7:43)

3. Moanin’ (Timmons) (10:13)

4. Good Bait (Dameron) (6:48)

Personnel and recording details the same as Volume One

Release Details

Volume 2 released on Bird Notes (Sweden) BNLP2, DIW (Japan) DIW-25034 (LP), DIW-349 (CD).

From the sleevenotes

“This LP helps toward understanding the way that Ayler has set about hedging-in his freedom, the restraints he devises for himself, his own particular struggle between form and content. Nobody would describe it as his best record - there is, for a start, little genuine rapport between Ayler and his accompanists - but it occupies a fascinating and perhaps a significant niche in jazz history.”

Charles Fox (from the sleevenotes to the Sonet LP 1969 release of Volume One)

(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.).

(Review of The First Recordings)

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