GOIN’ HOME

Tracks

1.   Goin` Home                                                               (4:26)

2.   Ol’ Man River (take 2)                                              (5:25)

3.   Down By The Riverside (take 6)                          (4:39)

4.   Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (take 3)                     (4:30)

5.   Deep River                                                                (4:15)

6.   When The Saints Go Marchin’ In                        (4:12)

7.   Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen             (4:44)

8.   Ol’ Man River (take 1)                                              (3:58)

9.   Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (take 1)                     (4:49)

10. Down By The Riverside (take 5)                          (4:28)

(All compositions traditional, except Kern & Hammerstein`s “Ol’ Man River”)

Personnel

Albert Ayler   (tenor and soprano saxophones)

Call Cobbs Jr.   (piano)

Henry Grimes   (bass [not tracks 1 & 7])

Sunny Murray   (drums [not tracks 1 & 7])

Recording Details

February 24, 1964

Atlantic Studios, New York 

Release Details

Tracks 1,2,5,6,7,8,9 released as Swing Low Sweet Spiritual on Osmosis (Holland) 4001, DIW (Japan) 1021, 25011 and 314 (2003 CD release).
All tracks released as Goin’ Home on Black Lion (Europe) BLCD760197 (1994 CD release), and on Tokuma Records (Japan).

From the sleevenotes

“The Danish Debut company originally failed to issue this part of the recording date but, with hindsight, it is not difficult to imagine why. In a jazz world honed to the technical cutting edge of saxophonists such as John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins, Ayler must have appeared as a primitive.”

Barry McRae (from the sleevenotes of the Black Lion release)

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