Product details
Title: Holy Ghost (Rare & Previously Unreleased Recordings)
Performer: Albert Ayler
Genre: Jazz Instrument
Sub Genre: Tenor Sax
Release Date: 28/07/2008
Recomended Retail Price: 90.99 GBP
Original Release Year: 2004
Label / Distributor: Revenant / Cargo
Producer: Ben Young (Compilation)
Pieces in Set: 9
Studio / Live: Mixed
Stereo: Stereo
Format: Performer
EAN: 630814021320
Additional notes
Album Notes: The deluxe box HOLY GHOST features 9 CDs of rare & unissued recordings and includes a 208 pg. full-color hardbound book with new essays by Amiri Baraka, Val Wilmer & other Ayler scholars, unpublished photos & family memorabilia, artist testimonials of first encounters with Ayler's music and an exhaustive chronology of Ayler performance activities. The set is housed in a lavish Spirit Box cast from a handcarved original. Also includes a 10th bonus disc featuring Albert Ayler as member of U.S. Army Band
Personnel include: Albert Ayler (vocals, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone); Mary Parks (vocals); Michel Sampson (violin); Jimmy Lyons (alto saxophone); Frank Wright, Pharoah Sanders, Sam Rivers (tenor saxophone); Donald Ayler, Chris Capers (trumpet); Don Cherry (cornet); Call Cobbs (piano, harpsichord); Dave Burrell, Burton Greene, Cecil Taylor (piano); Bill Folwell (double bass, bass guitar); Gary Peacock, Richard Davis, Sirone, Steve Tintweiss, Mutawef Shaheed (double bass); Milford Graves, Rashied Ali, Roger Blank, Ronald Shannon Jackson, Sunny Murray, Beaver Harris, Bernard Purdie (drums); Herbert Katz Quintet. Liner Note Authors: Amiri Baraka; Valerie Wilmer; Marc Chaloin; Ben Young; Daniel Caux; Carl Woideck. Recording information: 1962 - 1970.
Album Reviews: Rolling Stone (p.154) - Included in Rolling Stone's The 10 Best Reissues & Anthologies Of 2004 - "[H]e blows like a man sure of his eventual reward. Here it is."
Spin (p.114) - "Ayler's unhinged sound was shocking in the '60s, and it still is - often weirdly beautiful, always deeply human."
Mojo (p.120) - 5 stars out of 5 - "HOLY GHOST is his rich, just memorial: a box of revelations that add up to a resurrection."
Uncut (p.172) - 4 stars out of 5 - "HOLY GHOST, trimmings and all, is a most collectable memorial, and one of the phonographic events of the year."
The Wire (pp.48-9) - "[I]t still sounds utterly unique, utterly compelling, simultaneously familiar and alien."
Titles on disc 1
1.: Sonnymoon For Two
2.: Summertime
3.: On Green Dolphin Street
4.: Spoken Intro
5.: Four
6.: Untitled (Saints)
7.: Saints
8.: Ghost
Titles on disc 2
1.: Wizard
2.: Children
3.: Spirits (theme)
4.: Spoken Intro
5.: Spirits
6.: VIbrations
7.: Untitled
8.: Mothers
9.: Children
10.: Spirits
11.: Untitled
Titles on disc 3
1.: Spoken Intro
2.: Spirits Rejoice
3.: DC
4.: Untitled
5.: Our Prayer
6.: Spoken Intro
7.: Untitled
8.: Ghosts
9.: Spirits Rejoice
10.: Prophet/Ghosts/Spiritual Bells
11.: Our Prayer
Titles on disc 4
1.: Untitled/Truth Is Marching In
2.: Spirits
3.: Zion Hill
4.: Spirits
5.: Spiritual Bells
6.: Untitled
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Titles on disc 5
1.: Spoken Intro
2.: Ghosts/Bells
3.: Truth Is Marching In
4.: Omega
5.: Our Prayer
6.: Spoken Intro
7.: Truth Is Marching In
8.: Bells
9.: Spirits Rejoice
10.: Free Spiritual Musics (part 4)
Titles on disc 6
1.: Truth Is Marching In/Omega
2.: Japan/Universal Indians
3.: Our Prayer
4.: Love Cry/Truth Is Marching In/Our Prayer
5.: Venus/Upper And Lower Egypt
6.: Untitled Blues
7.: Untitled Sermon
8.: Thank God For Women
9.: New Ghosts (demo fragments)
Titles on disc 7
1.: Prophet John
2.: Judge Ye Not
3.: Mothers/Children
4.: Untitled
5.: Untitled
6.: Untitled
Titles on disc 8
1.: Interview with Birger Jorgensen (on travel and plans)
2.: Holbaek
3.: New Blues
4.: Christmastime stateside
5.: Great Change
6.: traveling and Coltrane
7.: drummers and Sunny Murray
8.: Job To Do
9.: Interview with Daniel Caux (on birth family first music)
10.: academy road school
11.: young professional and Army
12.: Sweden
13.: New York
14.: 1964
15.: frustration sources
16.: 1966 tour and Coltrane
17.: Impulse and Mary Maria
18.: Artist's Life
19.: Question: Leroi Jones
20.: Question: "For John Coltrane"
21.: Question: socio-political connections
22.: instrumentation engineering
23.: choosing the players
Titles on disc 9
1.: Interview with Kiyoshi Koyama (on current activity)
2.: Antibes
3.: Japan/Coltrane's funeral
4.: clubs
5.: ahead of my time
6.: home lives: Brooklyn and Cleveland
7.: Impulse Pt 1: hippies
8.: space music
9.: Don
10.: Thank God for Women
11.: blues & rhythm
12.: copying my records
13.: Impulse Pt. 2 NEW GRASS
14.: tone and "vibration"
15.: Rollins Coleman and Coltrane
16.: Maeght group
17.: serenity of life
18.: childhood memories pt. 1
19.: Blairman Enters
20.: early professional career
21.: childhood memories pt. 2
22.: Don's music
23.: I Love America
24.: Mary and golf
25.: early relationships and Mary Maria
26.: Japan work and warm weather
27.: play solo
28.: naming tunes
29.: Charles Ives
30.: influences
31.: practicing
32.: Healing Force
33.: diet and America
34.: defining "improvisation"
35.: Sonny Rollins reactions and Miles Davis
36.: Newport '67
37.: keeping to oneself (Mary Maria joins)
38.: Don And Mocqui Cherry Inverview (with Daniel Caux)
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