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Thanks for that! Strange how you think you sense how people will sound and then they're totally different. Albert sounds very up and amenable. I expected him to be distant and brooding. Btw the Aretha Franklin gig at the Antibes Festival he didn't play ("commercial") was glorious. That's on YouTube also. -
Yes, Ayler's gentle voice seems to be in complete contrast to his turbulent music.Originally posted by BLUESNIK'S REVOX View Post
I wish I could find some concert footage of Ayler. There are brief excerpts on Kasper Collins' film 'My Name Is Albert Ayler' but it would be nice to see a complete performance. Surely someone, somewhere has film of Ayler in action?
Now, if the BBC hadn't wiped those tapes of the 1966 LSE, 'Jazz Goes To College' gig...
Here's some early Albert Ayler in Stockholm on October 25, 1962 deconstructing 'I'll Remember April':
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If that was today, somebody would have been at Coltrane's funeral, and would have captured Ayler's tribute and circulated it on YouTube!Originally posted by Jazzrook View Post
I picked up the LP from which that track is taken, second-hand - I think I paid 10/- for it! By that time I'd heard most of the later recorded Ayler, and read Litweiler's "The Freedom Principle". Nevertheless, I was truly shocked while listening to it: in some ways it's rawer than what came subsequently - there's a sense of something struggling to come into being on those tracks - and I often wonder about those young Swedish guys, given that they made a remarkably good fist of it!Here's some early Albert Ayler in Stockholm on October 25, 1962 deconstructing 'I'll Remember April':
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There was conert in Denmark or somewhere on youtube where he played Rollins tunes but it was removed
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Beautiful article, from which much to be learned about Ayler - thanks JR.Originally posted by Jazzrook View PostComment
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