
Artist
Albert Ayler
Albert Ayler is a jazz artist from Cleveland Heights, Ohio formed in 1936. 26 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Jazz · Cleveland Heights, Ohio · Best jazz albums
- 26
- Releases
- 1962–2022
- Active years
- 1936
- Formed

Artist
Albert Ayler is a jazz artist from Cleveland Heights, Ohio formed in 1936. 26 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Jazz · Cleveland Heights, Ohio · Best jazz albums

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Love Cry
1968

New Grass
1968

Vibrations
1973

Music is the Healing Force of the Universe
1969

Spirits Rejoice
1965

The Last Album
1969

The First Recordings Vol. 1
2022

The First Recordings Vol. 2
2022

In Greenwich Village
2021

Milestones of Jazz Legends - Avantgarde the New Thing, Vol. 9
2017

On Green Dolphin Street
2016

New York Eye & Ear Control
2015

Bells & Prophecies
2015

Live on the Riviera
2013

In Concert...
2013

Live In Greenwich Village: The Complete Impulse Recordings
2010

The Impulse Story
2006
Slugs' Saloon
2005

Bells
2005

Nuits de la Fondation Maeght 1970
2003
Goin' Home
1994
Witches & Devils
1964
Ghosts
1964
My Name Is Albert Ayler
1963
The First Recordings
1962
The First Recordings, Volume 2
1962
Albert Ayler (born July 13th, 1936 in Cleveland Heights, Ohio - New York City, November 1970) was the most primal of the free jazz musicians of the 1960s. He possessed a deep blistering tone--achieved by using the stiffest plastic reeds he could find on his tenor saxophone--and a broad, pathos-filled vibrato that came right out of church music. His trio and quartet records of 1964, like 'Spiritual Unity' and 'The Hilversum Sessions', show him advancing the improvisational notions of John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman into abstract realms where timbre, not harmony and melody, is the music's backbone. His ecstatic music of 1965 and 1966, like "Spirits Rejoice" and "Truth Is Marching In" has been compared by critics to the sound of a Salvation Army brass band, and involved simple, march-like themes which alternated with wild group improvisations and took jazz back to its pre-Louis Armstrong roots. Ayler remains something of a cult artist. "Ghosts"--with its bouncy, sing-song melody (rather reminiscent of a nursery rhyme)--is probably his best known tune, and is something of a free jazz standard, having been covered by Lester Bowie, Gary Windo, Eugene Chadbourne, Joe McPhee, John Tchic…