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Music : Live In Greenwich Village: The Complete Impulse Recordings
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Live In Greenwich Village: The Complete Impulse Recordings by: Albert Ayler |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0011105027328 Format: Live Label: Grp Records Manufacturer: Grp Records Number Of Discs: 2 Publisher: Grp Records Release Date: October 06, 1998 Studio: Grp Records Sales Rank: 106875 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.com's Best of 1998: These stirring Albert Ayler performances were only sporadically available on LP two decades ago, making them highly sought-after items indeed. This two-CD set presents Ayler's Village Vanguard sets in all their rattling fervor (with remastering improvements), making 1998 a year when crucial pieces of this avant-garde jazzist's puzzle fell brilliantly into place. If anyone is recording music as fearless and commanding as this in jazz today, they deserve the spotlight. --Andrew Bartlett Amazon.com: There really was no one like Albert Ayler in jazz during the 1960s. Sure, John Coltrane could play monumentally complex sax, only to jettison the learned architecture for a complete reversal of virtuosity in his last works. And Pharoah Sanders could haunt and beguile with mournful cries and yawps. But Ayler was altogether different: he took the scarcest of melodies--folk and church tunes, really--and elevated them to spiritual zeniths. These live cuts were once super hard to find, on a scattering of LPs released in the 1970s. Collected as a whole on two CDs, they are a thing of pristine, if boundary-testing, beauty. Ayler takes barely any time at all before wailing into his stratospheric cries on tenor sax, and his brother Donald follows suit on trumpet with nearly the same quick leaps. The extended band includes, at its largest, the Ayler brothers with a full string quartet (Michael Sampson, violin; Joel Freedman, cello; Bill Folwell and Alan Silva, basses) and drummer Beaver Harris. They play numerous, almost easily-recognizable melodies from their oeuvre, including "Truth Is Marching In," "Spirits Rejoice," and "Omega Is the Alpha." They also offer "For John Coltrane," recorded in early 1967 after Trane's untimely demise. Spectacular would be a simple way to describe Ayler's ensemble and his compositions. But it wouldn't be out of proportion to the music. There's a reason, after all, that new jazz scion Anthony Braxton refers to avant-garde jazz of the late-1960s and after as the "post-Ayler continuum." Ayler pushed and pushed. And succeeded. --Andrew Bartlett Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - The most spiritual free jazz I've ever heard....This is the most spiritual free jazz I've ever heard. It's almost free jazz infused with gospel. The titles of the songs are almost all spiritual in nature (Holy Ghost, Our Prayer, Divine Peacemaker), and when Albert Ayler blows his horn, you feel he's touched by the divine, that the music is coming straight from Albert's soul to our souls. Ayler is as good as Coltrane, Coleman, or Brotzmann, but he goes to a level that they don't, as he finds a deeper, more profound music than those immensely talented gentlemen do. Coltrane's free jazz period was magnificent, and there was a spiritual element in his work (like Ascension), but Ayler seems to really feeling it more. The tracks Truth is Marching In and Our Prayer are exceptionally ... Read More: Rating: - ESSENTIAL MUSIC FOR THE MUSICALLY ADVENTUROUSThis two-CD collection of live recordings from the late 60s should be essential music in anyone's jazz collection. Not just for historical reasons but because it is such exceptional, moving music. I believe it was Nat Hentoff who described them as 'speaking in tongues." The description is accurate. In the solo sections, the Ayler brothers --especially Albert on tenor and alto saxophones-- sound like voices shrieking in ecstasy. And the background is phenomenal --cello and (one or two) bass together, most of the time violin as well, with either Sunny Murray or Beaver Harris thrashing away in irregular cadence on drums. Names aren't terribly important in Ayler compositions, nor for that matter are the heads. It's when they break into preaching --solo ... Read More: Rating: - trully a classicThis along with spiritual unity and vibrations are some of the best recordings in the history of jazz. Live in Greenwich is the best example of this phase his development and has the perfect ballance between orchestrated themes and ferocious avant jazz interplay. This is trully a masterpiece of american music. Rating:  - The Cure For The Big CI know nothing about this guy(that's why why i love listmania-the discoverys),but in listening to these clips,me thinks many of the reviews here describing this as a revoloution & the second coming are missig the fun of whats going on here.this is some of the funniest flatulent sounds i've heard in along time,i'm laughing almost to wetting my self.Innovation for the sake of innovation-Blow Me.Humor is a rare gift in any field.i could see firing this up to cure my self of The big C. Rating: - Can I Get A Witness?Astonishing 2-CD set, excellent value, good packaging (except for ugly cover) and outstanding booklet with notes from Nat Hentoff and Robert Palmer. Impulse! usually equals quality and this offering is no exception. Combining the live dates was a particularly good, and customer-friendly, idea. It's been said of Coltrane that he didn't so much play the music as "play through it" in order to reach a higher spiritual goal. One can also hear this in the playing of Eric Dolphy who, though quite technical at times, appeared to be constantly exploring, looking for that pure place. Pharaoh Sanders reveals the same struggle. But in the playing of Albert Ayler one finds the apotheosis of this approach. Listening to Ayler is akin ... Read More: |
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