Audio interviews:

Bill Folwell

An interview with Ayler’s bass player (from the 1966 European tour to the late Impulse period) conducted by Ben Young and broadcast on ‘Jazz Profiles’,  29th July 2007, on WKCR-FM.

Jazz Profiles: Bill Folwell Part One
(Bill Folwell - Trumpet player. His early years, influences, education, featuring rare recordings with Jimmy Heath and Carla Bley. 76 mins. 34.8 mb.)

Jazz Profiles: Bill Folwell Part Two
(Bill Folwell - Bass player. Army years, the UNI trio with Perry Robinson and Tom Price, and the start of his association with Albert Ayler. 63 mins. 29 mb.)

Jazz Profiles: Bill Folwell Part Three
(The 1966 European Tour, the Village Concerts, Newport, Ars Nova, The Insect Trust, Don Ayler, the late Impulse period and Albert the singer. 47 mins. 21.6 mb.)

Jazz Profiles: Bill Folwell Part Four
(More of the late Impulse period, Henry Vestine, bagpipes, Trevor Koehler, Harpo Marx, Spike Jones Jr., Billy Superball and The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo. 59 mins. 27.2 mb.)

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Beaver Harris

An interview with Ayler’s drummer (from the 1966 European tour and the Greenwich Village concerts) conducted by Elliott Bratton and broadcast 13th July, 1987, on WKCR-FM.

Beaver Harris Interview
(47 mins. 21.8 mb.)

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Links to other interviews online:

Audio:

Leonard Lopate’s interview with Bernard Stollman on WNYC 29/4/2008

ESP’s four part ‘Albert Ayler Radio Show’ also includes contributions from Bernard Stollman.

Print:

Nat Hentoff’s interview with Albert Ayler from Down Beat, 17/11/1966

Dan Warburton’s interview with Sunny Murray for the Paris Transatlantic magazine, 3/11/2000

Fred Jung’s interview with Gary Peacock from Jazz Weekly

Lars Movin’s interview with Torben Ulrich from Jazz Special (International Edition, 2003)

Keith Knox’s interview with Nils Edström

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