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…