Albert Ayler

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Biography

Cleveland Heights, Cleveland OH, United States (1936 – 1970)

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.

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1	Spirits	71
2	The Wizard	60
3	Ghosts: First Variation	59
4	Ghosts	49
5	Spirits Rejoice	39
6	Summertime	35
7	Ghosts: Second Variation	34
8	Truth Is Marching In	30
9	Our Prayer	29
10	Angels	27
10	Bells	27
12	Love Cry	26
13	For John Coltrane	22
13	Holy Family	22
15	Holy Ghost	20