Albert Ayler
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Dizzy Gillespie: in from the storm
Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 4 December 1965
DIZZY GILLESPIE was in benevolent mood when he met the press at his Mayfair hotel. Smiling amiably between mouthfuls of Worthington, he gave the impression ...
Review by Richard C. Walls, Creem, July 1970
HERE ARE two new albums by two of the most prominent innovators in music — one album a boring mystery, the other a satisfying continuation ...
Report by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 12 December 1970
ALBERT AYLER, the revolutionary jazz tenor saxophonist, is dead at the age of 34. ...
Albert Ayler: Beyond This World
Obituary by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 12 December 1970
Richard Williams pays tribute to Albert Ayler ...
Retrospective by Brian Case, New Musical Express, 6 July 1974
Gothic horror, funeral processions, The Exorcist ten years early on a crazed tenor. The critics loathed it. Audiences stayed away in droves. ALBERT AYLER. Have ...
Albert Ayler: The Village Concerts (Impulse IA-9336/2, two LPs, US import.)
Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 9 December 1978
The beauty of Ayler ...
Essay by Lester Bangs, Musician, April 1980
IN A New York City nightclub, a skinny little Caucasian whose waterfall hairstyle and set of snout and lips make him look like a sullen ...
Retrospective by Richard Cook, The Wire, January 1988
Still misunderstood and neglected, the man who took jazz saxophone to its furthest limits awaits a new appreciation. Richard Cook offers a personal view. ...
Albert Ayler: Nuits De La Fondation Maeght
Review by Edwin Pouncey, Jazzwise, October 2003
Albert Ayler (tf/ts); Mary Marta Parks (v/ss); Call Cobbs (p); Steve Tlntwetss (b); A Pen Biairman (d). Rec. 25 and 27 July 1970 ...
My Name Is Albert Ayler (dir. Kasper Collin)
Film/DVD/TV Review by John Lewis, Sight & Sound, November 2007
Synopsis Feature-length documentary about the African-American saxophonist Albert Ayler (1936–1970), told through archive footage and new interviews with friends, family and musicians, including his brother and ...
Retrospective by Kris Needs, Rock's Backpages, May 2009
'I must play music that is beyond this world' – Albert Ayler ...
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