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A seminal early moment from the legendary Albert Ayler – an important session recorded overseas in Copenhagen – where enthusiasm for Ayler's music caught fire more strongly than in the US! The group's got an edge that's maybe even sharper than some of Ayler's ESP material, but no less powerful – with Don Cherry on trumpet,... -
Reissue, originally released in 1963 Unorthodox saxophonist Albert Ayler straddled different jazz streams during his brief career After playing with Stanley Turrentine and Harold Budd in the late 1950s, a move to Sweden brought him into the limelight, fronting his own trio Debut album Something Different!!! comprised four...
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Originally released 1967; exact reissue, 180 Gram, Gatefold sleeve Part of the Back To Black series Including digital download code "During 1967-69 avant-garde innovator Albert Ayler recorded a series of albums for Impulse that started on a high level and gradually declined in quality This LP, Ayler's first Impulse set, was...
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Reissue, originally released in 1980 Our Swimmer presents the first official vinyl reissue of The Hilversum Session in over thirty years Licensed from Hat Hut Jazz iconoclast Albert Ayler took the experimental leanings of contemporaries like John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman as a starting point and then blasted them to...
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Recorded in Stockholm on October 25, 1962, this session is one of Albert Ayler's earliest recordings, featuring a European backing group he assembled during his brief stay there, before returning to the States in 1963 and beginning his legendary run with ESP-Disk' and Impulse Though his genius is not yet fully formed, one can...
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ESP-Disk present a reissue of Albert Ayler's Prophecy, originally released in 1975 Recorded in concert at the Cellar Cafe, NYC, June 14, 1964 Three weeks before this trio recorded ESP-Disk's first jazz album, the epochal Spiritual Unity, it was captured "live" by Canadian poet Paul Haines, who also recorded the New York Eye and...
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New Grass has been misunderstood from the day of its release The album finds Ayler experimenting with soul music and digging back into his R&B roots (he started his career playing saxophone with Chicago bluesman Little Walter), fusing it with the avant-garde free jazz (the one element of the record which garnered consistent...
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