Holy Ghost (Rare & Previously Unreleased Recordings) - Albert Ayler

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 full-color hardbound book with new essays by Amiri Baraka, Val Wilmer & other Ayler scholars, unpublished photos & family memorabilia, artist testimonials of first encounters with Ayler's music and an exhaustive chronology of Ayler performance activities.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

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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