Ayler: Mystic tenor with a direct hot line to heaven?
Val Wilmer, Melody Maker, 15 October 1966
WHEN his records Bells, Ghosts and Spirits first hit the market with the impact of an erupting Vesuvius, Albert Ayler's amazing tenor saxophone was variously described as being "like an electric saw buzzing" and "the ugliest sound yet to emerge from the avant garde". Ayler, an affable 30 year old, doesn't see it that way.
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