Show description for Sunday 7/15/2012 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Albert Ayler (July 13, 1936 – November 25, 1970)
"When music changes, people change too. The revolution in jazz took place a long time ago. But, just this year, something happened. Everywhere people are asking, 'What's happening, what's happening?'
"Today it seems that the world is trying to destroy itself. And nevertheless many people succeed in judging the world with an objective view. They see unkindness, hypocrisy, injustice and hard labor that enables a human being to earn very little. If only we really wanted to think of these things, to go into our inner-spiritual-consciences with them, we would understand that we have to fight and endless battle (with ourselves), before winning over all the obstacles, before having acquired the true desire to change.
"The music we play today will help people to know themselves better and to find inner peace more easily. Inspiration is necessary to all of us. It can come from a word, a paragraph in a book, a painting, from a poem, a song, from numerous things, in short. But actually, nothing happens if you're not ready.
"The music we play is a prayer, a message coming from God. We all share the same emotion, but this emotion manifests itself differently according to the personality of each of us.
"Unfortunately for us, decor can provoke vulgar emotions in us, such as envy, covetousness, and contempt.
"A good many people are not touched by the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost will lead all of us through the world someday. Look at the history of jazz: Bolden, Armstrong, Bird, Monk, Coltrane, Taylor, Ornette, etc. all had their own way of seeing things, all had new ideas, the hope of a new aesthetic which wouldn't know destruction, which neither power nor the established structure would be able to kill."
Albert Ayler, The International Times, Number 10, March 13-26, 1967
| Artist | Song | Album | Label | ||
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| Cecil Taylor Quartet | Four | Holy Ghost: Rare & Unissued Recordings (1962-70) (1) | Revenant | ||
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| Albert Ayler Quartet | Spirits | Holy Ghost: Rare & Unissued Recordings (1962-70) (2) | Revenant | ||
| Albert Ayler Quartet | Vibrations | Holy Ghost: Rare & Unissued Recordings (1962-70) (2) | Revenant | ||
| Albert Ayler Interview With Birger Jorgenson | Afterbeat December 1964 | Holy Ghost: Rare & Unissued Recordings (1962-70) (8) | Revenant | ||
| Albert Ayler Quintet | D.C. (Don Cherry) | Holy Ghost: Rare & Unissued Recordings (1962-70) (3) | Revenant | ||
| Albert Ayler Quintet | [Untitled Minor Waltz] | Holy Ghost: Rare & Unissued Recordings (1962-70) (3) | Revenant | ||
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| Don & Moqui Cherry Interviewed By Daniel Caux | Albert Ayler | Holy Ghost: Rare & Unissued Recordings (1962-70) (9) | Revenant | ||
| Albert Ayler Quintet | Ghosts / Bells | Holy Ghost: Rare & Unissued Recordings (1962-70) (5) | Revenant | ||
| Albert Ayler Interview With Birger Jorgenson | Afterbeat Nov. 11, 1966 | Holy Ghost: Rare & Unissued Recordings (1962-70) (8) | Revenant | ||
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| Albert Ayler Quintet | Truth Is Marching In / Omega | Holy Ghost: Rare & Unissued Recordings (1962-70) (6) | Revenant | ||
| Albert Ayler Quintet | Japan / Universal Indians | Holy Ghost: Rare & Unissued Recordings (1962-70) (6) | Revenant | ||
| Albert Ayler Quintet | Our Prayer | Holy Ghost: Rare & Unissued Recordings (1962-70) (6) | Revenant | ||
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| Albert Ayler Interview With Kiyoshi Koyama | July 25, 1970 | Holy Ghost: Rare & Unissued Recordings (1962-70) (9) | Revenant | ||
| Albert Ayler | Thank God For Women | Holy Ghost: Rare & Unissued Recordings (1962-70) (6) | Revenant | ||
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| Albert Ayler | [Blues] | Holy Ghost: Rare & Unissued Recordings (1962-70) (6) | Revenant | ||
| Albert Ayler | [Sermon] | Holy Ghost: Rare & Unissued Recordings (1962-70) (6) | Revenant | ||
