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Monday, 13 July 2015
79th birthday of Albert Ayler
(Born 13 July 1936, Cleveland, Ohio, US)
Iconic tenor saxophonist and composer whose July 1964 album, Spiritual Unity (Ayler, tenor saxophone; Gary Peacock, bass; Sunny Murray, percussion) and subsequent landmark recordings celebrate the concept of rhythmic freedom that captures the saliency of the ongoing age of freedom drive in the United States and elsewhere in the world
(Albert
Ayler Trio, Spiritual Unity
[“Ghosts: First variation”, “The wizard”, “Spirits”, “Ghosts: Second variation”
{personnel: Ayler, tenor saxophone; Gary Peacock, bass; Sunny Murray, drums; recorded: Variety
Arts Recording Studio, New York, US, 10 July 1964}])
(Albert
Ayler Quartet, Vibrations [“Ghosts: short version”, “Children”, “Holy Spirit”,
“Ghosts: extended version”, “Vibrations”, “Mothers” {personnel: Ayler, tenor saxophone, alto saxophone; Don Cherry, pocket trumpet, Gary Peacock, bass; Sunny Murray, drums; recorded: Copenhagen,
Denmark, 14 September 1964}])
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