Albert Ayler - Holy Ghost

Label:
Catalog#:
Rev 213
Format:
10 x CD
Box Set
Country:
US
Released:
Oct 2004
Genre:
Jazz
Style:
Free Jazz

Tracklist

1.1 Herbert Katz Quintet  -  Sonnymoon for Two 8:29
1.2 Herbert Katz Quintet  -  Summertime 6:53
1.3 Herbert Katz Quintet  -  On Green Dolphin Street 3:26
1.4 Cecil Taylor Quartet, The  -  Spoken Introduction 0:42
1.5 Cecil Taylor Quartet, The  -  Four 21:46
    Piano - Cecil Taylor
  Saxophone [Alto] - Jimmy Lyons (2)
1.6 Albert Ayler Trio  -  Spirits [Incomplete] 6:38
1.7 Albert Ayler Trio  -  Saints 10:32
1.8 Albert Ayler Trio  -  Ghosts [Incomplete] 10:56
2.1 Albert Ayler Trio  -  The Wizard 6:51
2.2 Albert Ayler Trio  -  Children 9:05
2.3 Albert Ayler Trio  -  Spirits [Theme] 0:28
2.4 Albert Ayler Quartet  -  Spoken Radio Introduction 0:55
2.5 Albert Ayler Quartet  -  Spirits 8:43
2.6 Albert Ayler Quartet  -  Vibrations 8:23
2.7 Albert Ayler Quartet  -  [Tune Q] 8:59
2.8 Albert Ayler Quartet  -  Mothers 7:53
2.9 Albert Ayler Quartet  -  Children 8:38
2.10 Albert Ayler Quartet  -  Spirits [Theme] 1:25
2.11 Burton Greene Quintet  -  [Untitled] (Collective) 8:55
    Drums - Rashied Ali
  Piano - Burton Greene
  Saxophone [Tenor] - Frank Smith
3.1 Albert Ayler Quintet  -  Spoken Introduction by Peter Bergman 1:03
3.2 Albert Ayler Quintet  -  Spirits Rejoice 4:39
3.3 Albert Ayler Quintet  -  D.C. 5:58
3.4 Albert Ayler Quintet  -  [Untitled Minor Waltz] 7:04
3.5 Albert Ayler Quintet  -  Our Prayer 6:33
3.6 Albert Ayler Quintet  -  Spoken Introduction by Peter Bergman 1:13
3.7 Albert Ayler Quintet  -  [F# Tune] 15:20
3.8 Albert Ayler Quintet  -  Ghosts 6:32
3.9 Albert Ayler Quintet  -  Spirits Rejoice 6:31
3.10 Albert Ayler Quintet  -  Prophet / Ghosts / Spiritual Bells 14:33
3.11 Albert Ayler Quintet  -  Our Prayer / Spirits Rejoice 9:43
4.1 Albert Ayler Quintet  -  [Untitled] / Truth Is Marching In 15:43
4.2 Albert Ayler Quintet  -  Spirits 9:16
4.3 Albert Ayler Quintet  -  Zion Hill 12:40
4.4 Albert Ayler Quintet  -  Spirits 7:00
4.5 Albert Ayler Quintet  -  Spiritual Bells 3:48
4.6 Albert Ayler Quintet  -  [F# Tune] 9:18
5.1 Albert Ayler Quintet  -  Concert Announcement By Ralf Schulte-Bahrenberg 1:10
5.2 Albert Ayler Quintet  -  Ghosts / Bells 11:15
5.3 Albert Ayler Quintet  -  Truth Is Marching In 7:07
5.4 Albert Ayler Quintet  -  Omega 3:48
5.5 Albert Ayler Quintet  -  Our Prayer 4:39
5.6 Albert Ayler Quintet  -  Spoken Introduction By Peter de Wit 1:25
5.7 Albert Ayler Quintet  -  Truth Is Marching In 11:14
5.8 Albert Ayler Quintet  -  Bells 5:35
5.9 Albert Ayler Quintet  -  Spirits Rejoice 10:51
5.10 Albert Ayler Quintet  -  "Free Spiritual Music" Part IV 6:44
6.1 Albert Ayler Quintet  -  Truth Is Marching In / Omega 9:00
6.2 Albert Ayler Quintet  -  Japan / Universal Indians 5:41
6.3 Albert Ayler Quintet  -  Our Prayer 8:19
6.4 Albert Ayler Quartet  -  Love Cry / Truth Is Marching In/Our Prayer 6:24
6.5 Pharoah Sanders  -  Venus / Upper And Lower Egypt 22:59
    Bass - Sirone
  Drums - Roger Blank
  Piano - Dave Burrell
  Saxophone [Tenor] - Pharoah Sanders
  Trumpet - Chris Capers
6.6 Albert Ayler  -  [Blues] 6:04
6.7 Albert Ayler  -  [Sermon] 0:50
6.8 Albert Ayler  -  Thank God For Women 10:16
6.9 Albert Ayler  -  New Ghosts [Demo Fragments] 7:10
7.1 Don Ayler Sextet  -  Prophet John 10:53
    Bass - Ibrahim Wahen
  Drums - Muhammed Ali*
  Piano - Richard Johnson (6)
  Saxophone [Tenor] - Sam Rivers
7.2 Don Ayler Sextet  -  Judge Ye Not 10:16
    Bass - Ibrahim Wahen
  Drums - Muhammed Ali*
  Piano - Richard Johnson (6)
  Saxophone [Tenor] - Sam Rivers
7.3 Albert Ayler Quartet  -  Mothers / Children 8:42
7.4 Albert Ayler Quartet  -  [Untitled, Incomplete] 14:14
7.5 Albert Ayler Quartet  -  [C Minor] 5:21
7.6 Albert Ayler Quartet  -  [F Minor / C Minor] 10:36
8.1   Ayler Interview with Birger Jørgensen Pt.1 5:20
8.2   Ayler Interview with Birger Jørgensen Pt.2 5:31
8.3   Ayler Interview with Daniel Caux 38:54
9.1   Ayler Interview with Kiyoshi Koyama 57:32
9.2   Don and Mocqui Cherry Interview with Daniel Caux 14:38
10.1 US Army Band featuring Albert Ayler  -  Tenderly 1:21
10.2 US Army Band featuring Albert Ayler  -  Leap Frog 3:15

Credits

Artwork By [Direction] - Noel Waggener
Bass - Bill Folwell (tracks: 5.2 to 6.3, 6.6 to 6.9) , Gary Peacock (tracks: 1.6 to 2.3, 2.5 to 2.10) , Heikki Annala (tracks: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3) , Mutawef Shaheed (tracks: 3.2 to 3.5, 3.7 to 4.6) , Richard Davis (2) (tracks: 6.2, 7.1, 7.2) , Steve Tintweiss (tracks: 2.11, 7.3 to 7.6)
Cornet - Don Cherry (tracks: 2.5 to 2.10)
Drums - Allen Blairman (tracks: 7.3 to 7.6) , Beaver Harris (tracks: 5.2 to 5.5, 5.7 to 5.10) , Bernard Purdie (tracks: 6.6 to 6.9) , Martti Äijänen (tracks: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3) , Milford Graves (tracks: 6.1 to 6.4) , Ronald Shannon Jackson (tracks: 3.2 to 3.5, 3.7 to 4.6) , Sunny Murray (tracks: 1.5 to 2.3, 2.5 to 2.10)
Guitar - Herbert Katz (tracks: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3)
Mastered By [Remaster] - Ben Young , Joe Lizzi , Kevin Reeves
Piano - Teuvo Suojärvi (tracks: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3)
Piano, Harpsichord [Rocksichord] - Call Cobbs (tracks: 6.6 to 6.9, 7.3 to 7.6)
Saxophone [Tenor] - Frank Wright (tracks: 4.1 to 4.6)
Saxophone [Tenor], Saxophone [Soprano], Saxophone [Alto], Vocals - Albert Ayler
Trumpet - Donald Ayler (tracks: 3.2 to 3.5, 3.7 to 4.6, 5.2 to 5.5, 5.7 to 6.4, 7.1, 7.2)
Violin - Michel Samson* (tracks: 3.2 to 3.5, 3.7 to 4.6, 5.2 to 5.5, 5.7 to 6.3)
Vocals - Vivian Bostic (tracks: 6.6 to 6.9)
Vocals, Tambourine - Mary Parks (tracks: 6.6 to 6.9, 7.3 to 7.6)

Notes

Rare and unreleased recordings from 1962-1970 in a 9CD 'Spirit Box', plus a bonus disc of Albert Ayler with a U.S. Army Band. Includes a 208 page full-color hardbound book which includes new essays by Amiri Baraka, Val Wilmer & other Ayler scholars. Also included are a picture of Ayler with saxophone from his youth; a photostat of a handwritten note from a Copenhagen hotel; a reprinted copy of a Slugs flyer which includes a listing for a week of Ayler's quintet; a reprinted 1965 pamphlet by the late poet Paul Haines entitled Ayler-Peacock-Murray-You and the Night and the Music; a reprinted newsletter from 1969 by Jihad Productions with excerpts about Ayler and a dried flower!

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