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GHOSTS Tracks 1. Ghosts (2:04) 2. Children (6:50) 3. Holy Spirit (8:29) 4. Ghosts (7:58) 5. Vibrations (4:55) 6. Mothers (7:06) (All compositions by Albert Ayler) Personnel Albert Ayler (alto and tenor saxophones) Don Cherry (trumpet) Gary Peacock (bass) Sunny Murray (drums) Recording Details September 14, 1964 Recording studio in Copenhagen Release Details Released variously as Ghosts, Vibrations and 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 in 1987 - pictures below. From the sleevenotes “A clue to Ayler’s own attitude can be got from remarks he made to Nat Hentoff in an interview printed in ‘Down Beat’ (November 17, 1966). ‘I like to play something - like the beginning of Ghosts - that people can hum,’ he said. ‘And I want to play songs like I used to sing when I was real small. Folk melodies that all the people would understand. I’d use these melodies as a start and have different simple melodies going in and out of a piece. From simple melody to complicated textures to simplicity again and then back to the more dense, the more complex sounds’.” Charles Fox (from the sleevenotes of the Fontana release) (Review of Ghosts) |
