AYLER MAJESTY COMES NOW, DRESSED IN BIRTH

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Show description for Sunday 7/11/2010 @ 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Justin Desmangles sits in for Brian Ang this week, celebrating the birth of one of the most controversial figures in the history of jazz, indeed the 2oth century, Albert Ayler. We will be listening in on scarce recordings of Ayler music, as well as rare interviews with Ayler himself. Also, in the 6 o'clock hour, we will hear from trumpeter, composer, Don Cherry, on his first meeting with Ayler, in Copenhagen.

Farewell Transmission

Brian Ang

Opaque art thing.

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Experimental, Poetry

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Track	Artist	Song	Album	Label	Comments
	Albert Ayler Quintet	Truth Is Marching In / Omega	Holy Ghost	Revenant
	Albert Ayler Quintet	Japan (traditional) / Universal Indians	Holy Ghost	Revenant
	Albert Ayler Quintet	Our Prayer	Holy Ghost	Revenant
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	Albert Ayler Quartet featuring Don Cherry	spoken radio introduction	Holy Ghost	Revenant
	Albert Ayler Quartet featuring Don Cherry	Spirits	Holy Ghost	Revenant
	Albert Ayler Quartet featuring Don Cherry	Vibrations	Holy Ghost	Revenant
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	Ayler interview w/ Birger Jorgensen, Dec. 64	travel and plans	Holy Ghost	Revenant
	Ayler interview w/ Birger Jorgensen, Dec. 64	Holbaek	Holy Ghost	Revenant
	Ayler interview w/ Birger Jorgensen, Dec. 64	the New Blues	Holy Ghost	Revenant
	Ayler interview w/ Birger Jorgensen, Dec. 64	Christmastime stateside	Holy Ghost	Revenant
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	Albert Ayler Quintet	[untitled minor waltz]	Holy Ghost	Revenant
	Don & Mocqui Cherry interview with Daniel Caux, 1970		Holy Ghost	Revenant
	Albert Ayler Quintet	concert announcement by Ralf Schulte-Bahrenberg	Holy Ghost	Revenant
	Albert Ayler Quintet	Ghosts / Bells	Holy Ghost	Revenant
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	Ayler interview with Kiyoshi Koyama for Swing Journal, 1970	current activity	Holy Ghost	Revenant
	Ayler interview with Kiyoshi Koyama for Swing Journal, 1970	Antibes	Holy Ghost	Revenant
	Ayler interview with Kiyoshi Koyama for Swing Journal, 1970	Japan / Coltrane's funeral	Holy Ghost	Revenant
	Ayler interview with Kiyoshi Koyama for Swing Journal, 1970	clubs	Holy Ghost	Revenant
	Ayler interview with Kiyoshi Koyama for Swing Journal, 1970	ahead of my time	Holy Ghost	Revenant
	Ayler interview with Kiyoshi Koyama for Swing Journal, 1970	home lives: Brooklyn and Cleveland	Holy Ghost	Revenant
	Ayler interview with Kiyoshi Koyama for Swing Journal, 1970	Impluse, pt. 1: hippies	Holy Ghost	Revenant
	Ayler interview with Kiyoshi Koyama for Swing Journal, 1970	"space music"	Holy Ghost	Revenant
	Ayler interview with Kiyoshi Koyama for Swing Journal, 1970	Don	Holy Ghost	Revenant
	Ayler interview with Kiyoshi Koyama for Swing Journal, 1970	"Thank God for Women"	Holy Ghost	Revenant
	Albert Ayler	Thank God for Women	Holy Ghost	Revenant

Amiri Baraka reads Black Art

Amiri Baraka reads his poem Black Art with Sonny Murray on drums, Albert Ayler on tenor saxophone, Don Cherry on trumpet, Henry Grimes on bass, Louis Worrell on bass, for the album Sonny's Time Now. The first album lead by Sonny Murray, Sonny's Time Now was released on Baraka's Jihad records in 1967 (it's liner notes are republished in Black Music, now back in print). Decades later it was reissued by DIW in Japan in a limited edition. Black Art remains one of Baraka's most controversial poems, even at this late date. Composed and recorded with the fires of Black Nationalism fanned to a high flame, it remains innovative on a number of levels, technical and social. The demand that poems ought wrestle cops into alleys, fly planes, shoot guns, remake the world, are bullshit unless they are lemons piled on a step, &c. are but a few examples. The work also provides a snap shot of some of Baraka's thinking prior to his movement away from Black Nationalism and into Third World Marxism, or M-L-M. In terms of jazz poetry, or poetry and jazz combos on record, this would have to rank among the highest historical examples.