Thursday, May 22, 2014

Albert Ayler - Holy Ghost

Check out what I got from the public library! 10 disks of Albert Ayler is right. I got it for free so I thought you should too.
The 'truth' is that there are only 9 discs, but that's just the 'truth,' you understand? Reality is different than truth it seems. . . .

Disks 1-7 & 10 are music. Featured are seminal tracks like Ghosts, Spirits Rejoice, and Bells.
8 + 9 are interviews. Let's you know a bit more about the organism himself and all his thought processes and that.

Mostly live recordings, even a set from Coltrane's funeral. All types of free jazz musicians are here, including Pharoah Sanders; Cecil Taylor; and Sam Rivers, who we all know was on Conference of the Birds. . .. . if not, now we do.

Too overbearing an introduction to Mr. Ayler's work? Check out his breakout album Spiritual Unity instead, than come right back here for more.


1-1 Herbert Katz Quintet w/ Albert Ayler Sonnymoon For Two
Written-By – Sonny Rollins
8:29
1-2 Herbert Katz Quintet w/ Albert Ayler Summertime
Written-By – George Gershwin-Ira Gershwin*
6:53
1-3 Herbert Katz Quintet w/ Albert Ayler On Green Dolphin Street
Written-By – Bronislau Kaper*
3:26
1-4 Borge Roger Henrichsen* Spoken Intro 0:42
1-5 Cecil Taylor Quartet* w/ Albert Ayler Four
Alto Saxophone – Jimmy Lyons  Piano – Cecil Taylor Written-By – Cecil Taylor
21:46
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 Unknown Artist 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 w/ Albert Ayler [Untitled] (Collective)
Drums – Rashied Ali Piano – Greene* Tenor Saxophone – Frank Smith
8:55


First Set
3-1 Peter Bergman (2) Spoken Introduction By Peter Bergman 1:03
3-2 Albert Ayler Quintet Spirits Rejoice 4:39
3-3 Albert Ayler Quintet D.C.
Written-By – Don Cherry
5:58
3-4 Albert Ayler Quintet [Untitled Minor Waltz] 7:04
3-5 Albert Ayler Quintet Our Prayer
Written-By – Don Ayler*
6:33


Second Set
3-6 Peter Bergman  Spoken Introduction By Peter Bergman 1:13
3-7 Albert Ayler Quintet [F# Tune] 15:20
3-8 Albert Ayler Quintet Ghosts 6:32


First Set
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
Written-By [Our Prayer] – Don Ayler*
9:43


Second Set
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


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5-1 Ralf Schulte-Bahrenberg 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
Written-By – Don Ayler*
4:39
5-6 Peter de Wit  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
Vocals – Ayler* Written-By [Japan] – Traditional
5:41
6-3 Albert Ayler Quintet Our Prayer
Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone – Ayler* Written-By – Don Ayler*
8:19
6-4 Albert Ayler Quartet Love Cry / Truth Is Marching In/Our Prayer
Vocals – Ayler* Written-By [Our Prayer] – Don Ayler*
6:24
6-5 Pharoah Sanders Ensemble w/ Albert Ayler Venus / Upper And Lower Egypt
Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – Unknown Artist Bass – Sirone Drums – Roger Blank Piano – Dave Burrell Tenor Saxophone – Sanders* Trumpet – Chris Capers Written-By – Pharoah Sanders
22:59
6-6 Albert Ayler [Blues] 6:04
6-7 Albert Ayler [Sermon]
Soloist [Solo Recitation] – Ayler*
0:50
6-8 Albert Ayler Thank God For Women
Written-By – Albert Ayler, Mary Parks
10:16
6-9 Albert Ayler New Ghosts [Demo Fragments]
Written-By – Albert Ayler, Mary Parks
7:10
7-1 Don Ayler Sextet w/ Albert Ayler Prophet John
Alto Saxophone – Albert Ayler Bass – Ibrahim Wahen Drums – Muhammed Ali* Piano – Richard Johnson  Tenor Saxophone – Sam Rivers Written-By – Don Ayler*
10:53
7-2 Don Ayler Sextet w/ Albert Ayler Judge Ye Not
Alto Saxophone – Albert Ayler Bass – Ibrahim Wahen Drums – Muhammed Ali* Piano – Richard Johnson  Tenor Saxophone – Sam Rivers Written-By – Don Ayler*
10:16
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 Albert Ayler Travel And Plans 1:49
8-2 Albert Ayler Holbaek 0:39
8-3 Albert Ayler The New Blues 1:33
8-4 Albert Ayler Christmastime Stateside 1:10
8-5 Albert Ayler A Great Change 1:35
8-6 Albert Ayler Traveling And Coltrane 1:00
8-7 Albert Ayler Drummers And Sunny Murray 1:42
8-8 Albert Ayler A Job To Do 1:00
8-9 Albert Ayler Birth, Family, First Music 3:04
8-10 Albert Ayler Academy, The Road, School 0:57
8-11 Albert Ayler Young Professional And Army 5:40
8-12 Albert Ayler Sweden 4:39
8-13 Albert Ayler New York 0:49
8-14 Albert Ayler 1964 1:25
8-15 Albert Ayler Frustration, Sources 3:39
8-16 Albert Ayler 1966 Tour And Coltrane 3:16
8-17 Albert Ayler Impulse And Mary Maria 3:27
8-18 Albert Ayler The Artist's Life 1:31
8-19 Albert Ayler Question: LeRoi Jones 0:46
8-20 Albert Ayler Question: "For John Coltrane" 1:10
8-21 Albert Ayler Question: Socio-Policial Connections 3:19
8-22 Albert Ayler Question: Instrumentation, Engineering 4:16
8-23 Albert Ayler Choosing The Players 0:50
9-1 Albert Ayler Current Activity 1:59
9-2 Albert Ayler Antibes 1:06
9-3 Albert Ayler Japan/Coltrane's Funeral 1:02
9-4 Albert Ayler Clubs 3:39
9-5 Albert Ayler Ahead Of My Time 1:42
9-6 Albert Ayler Home Lives; Brooklyn And Cleveland 1:27
9-7 Albert Ayler Impulse, pt. 1: Hippies 1:21
9-8 Albert Ayler "Space Music" 1:07
9-9 Albert Ayler Don 0:46
9-10 Albert Ayler "Thank God For Women" 0:46
9-11 Albert Ayler Blues & Rhythm 1:17
9-12 Albert Ayler Copying My Records 2:00
9-13 Albert Ayler Impulse, pt. 2: New Grass 2:18
9-14 Albert Ayler Tone And "Vibration" 1:07
9-15 Albert Ayler Rollins, Coleman, And Coltrane 4:08
9-16 Albert Ayler Maeght Group 0:57
9-17 Albert Ayler Serenity Of Life 0:36
9-18 Albert Ayler Childhood Memories, pt. 1 2:00
9-19 Albert Ayler [Blairman Enters] 0:34
9-20 Albert Ayler Early Professional Career 1:03
9-21 Albert Ayler Childhood Memories, pt. 2 1:09
9-22 Albert Ayler Don's Music 3:47
9-23 Albert Ayler "I Love America" And Youth 1:05
9-24 Albert Ayler Mary And Golf 0:38
9-25 Albert Ayler Early Relationships And Mary Maria 1:03
9-26 Albert Ayler Japan Work And Warm Weather 4:01
9-27 Albert Ayler Play Solo 0:24
9-28 Albert Ayler Naming Tunes 1:22
9-29 Albert Ayler Charles Ives 0:25
9-30 Albert Ayler Influences 1:44
9-31 Albert Ayler Practicing 1:09
9-32 Albert Ayler The Healing Force 0:52
9-33 Albert Ayler Diet And America 2:08
9-34 Albert Ayler Defining "Improvisation" 0:45
9-35 Albert Ayler Sonny Rollins, Reactions, And Miles Davis 2:43
9-36 Albert Ayler Newport '67 2:30
9-37 Albert Ayler New York: Keeping To Oneself [Mary Maria Joins] 0:39
9-38 Don* & Mocqui Cherry Untitled
Interviewee – Don*, Mocqui Cherry

10-1 US Army Band* Tenderly
Tenor Saxophone [Solo@2:30;3:04] – Ayler* Written-By – Lawrence*, Gross*
4:32
10-2 US Army Band* Leap Frog
Tenor Saxophone [All 4 Exposed Improvs.] – Ayler* Written-By – Garland*

 

3:16
HOLY GHOST 1 & 2 
HOLY GHOST 3 & 4 
HOLY GHOST 5 & 6 
HOLY GHOST 7 & 8
HOLY GHOST 9 & 10

[Updated / verified 2015 May 3]

15 comments:

  1. Thank you!
    Would you please post discs 9 & 10 on MediaFire (couldn't get those two to work).

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  2. The first three links don't work. Is there any chance of posting them again on MF? And thank you anyway for all the great work you do here! (Apologies if I have commented twice - it didn't seem to work the first time...)

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    1. Fixed them just for you Jerry. Let's hope they stay up for a while.

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    2. Thank you so much! I am looking forward to listening to them,

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  3. Oh, wow, oh, wow.... Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I wanted this when it came out, but there was no way I was going to buy CDs once again. I did away with my physical music library long ago and since 2006 (?) or so have only paid for digital releases of music through Amazon, iTunes, Bandcamp, Boomkat, etc.--but a digital version of this album was never released! I'm glad your library was cool enough to have a CD copy and you were cool enough to rip it! Thank you!!!

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  4. Thank you so much for posting this!

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  5. Thank you so much for this. I really love you!

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  6. lovely, thanks !
    all links still working

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  7. Whoa. Thank You Very Much. Outstanding!

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  8. Wonderful! Was just thinking 'hmmm I never heard that limited edition Albert Ayler Box, I should've got it when it came out and I could afford it ...' So often, when looking for something like this, a quick search will turn up dozens of dead links from the early years of music blogging (I had one myself in the early 21st century!) --- amazing and thank you so much: the links are alive and working in March 2022! Many many thanks!

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