Albert Ayler
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Report by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 12 December 1970
ALBERT AYLER, the revolutionary jazz tenor saxophonist, is dead at the age of 34. ...
Obituary by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 12 December 1970
Richard Williams pays tribute to Albert Ayler ...
Albert Ayler: "Coltrane was The Father, Pharoah was The Son, and I was...The Holy Ghost"
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 ...
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. ...
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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