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ALBERT AYLER
LIVE IN GREENWICH VILLAGE
THE COMPLETE IMPULSE RECORDINGS
Label:Impulse
Recorded: 1967/1968
Released:1998
Format: Flac
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This set documents some of the most robust and influential fermentation that was taking place in '60s jazz around the Village in New York City. Recorded live in 1966 and 1967, Live is transcendental church music, grounded in conventional African-American spirituality as it reaches exultantly for the sky. Traditional melody-then-solos structure splits at the seams as tunes spill into collective improvisation. The band often suggests a gaggle of patriots crying out in personal jubilation but rallying together, again and again, to sing a cherished anthem anew.
Ayler and Don Cherry maintain a constant tension between simple melodicism and rapturous free blowing in their soloing. "Truth Is Marching In" makes a triumphant New Orleans-style crash, while "Divine Peacemaker" has the regal quality of the music that announces a monarch's arrival. "Angels" is a lovely, if slightly tongue-in-cheek, duet between Ayler and pianist Call Cobbs Jr. The latter's changes are fashioned after the manner of an early-20th-century fantasia, his piano sounding as though it had spent its youth in a dingy Western saloon. Ayler blows a sweet lament over Cobbs' rolling arpeggios, conjuring images of divine winged messengers stumbling tipsily onto a street corner after a hard day at the ol' salvation grind.
Disc One:
1 - Holy Ghost 07:41
2 - The Truth Is Marching In 12:42
3 - Our Prayer 04:45
4 - Spirits Rejoice 16:22
5 - Divine Peacemaker 12:37
6 - Angels 09:53
Disc Two:
1 - For John Coltrane 13:40
2 - Change Has Come 06:24
3 - Light in Darkness 10:59
4 - Heavenly Home 08:51
5 - Spiritual Rebirth 04:26
6 - Infinite Spirit 06:37
7 - Omega Is the Alpha 10:46
8 - Universal Thoughts 08:22
Total Time: 02:14:05
Personnel on Disc One #1:
* Albert Ayler - tenor saxophone
* Don Ayler - trumpet
* Joel Freedman - cello
* Lewis Worrell - bass
* Sunny Murray - drums
Recorded at The Village Gate, New York City, on March 28, 1965
Personnel on Disc One #2-5:
* Albert Ayler - tenor saxophone
* Don Ayler - trumpet
* Michel Sampson - violin
* Bill Folwell & Henry Grimes - basses
* Beaver Harris - drums
Recorded at The Village Vanguard, New York City, on December 18, 1966
Personnel on Disc One #6:
* Albert Ayler - tenor saxophone
* probably Call Cobbs Jr. - piano
Recorded at The Village Vaanguard, New York City, on December 18, 1966
Personnel on Disc Two:
* Albert Ayler - alto saxophone (#1), tenor saxophone (all others)
* Don Ayler - trumpet (except on #1)
* George Steele - trombone (on #8 only)
* Michel Sampson - violin
* Joel Freedman - cello
* Bill Folwell & Alan Silva - basses
* Beaver Harris - drums (except on #1)
Recorded at The Village Theatre, New York City, on February 26, 1967
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Disc 1 #1 Originally issued on “The New Wave In Jazz” (Impulse AS-90)
Disc 1 #2,#3 and Disc 2 #1,#2 Originally issued on “Albert Ayler in Greenwich Village (Impulse AS-9155)
Disc 1#4-#6 and Disc 2 #3-#7 Originally issued on “Albert Ayler The Village Concerts (Impulse AS-9336-2)
Disc 2 #8 is prev unissued.
Light in Darkness and Heavenly Home are Mono.
A version of Saints was recorded at the Village Gate session but no master tape of that performance has survived
All other tracks are Stereo.
Universal Thoughts is incomplete most likely due to the tape running out.
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