Albert Ayler

his rich and expressive saxophone does not compromise with anyone. If there are no recordings of the early jazz of the last century that emerged from the funeral marches of New Orleans and the Black chants, Robert Ayler is the only one capable of pouring out those authentic notes in the contexts of measured and stunned intellectuals who came to listen to him in the sixties, thinking of some convoluted novelty.
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Albert Ayler

American tenor saxophonist from Cleveland, a central figure of free jazz. Key recordings include Spiritual Unity with Gary Peacock and Sunny Murray, the Greenwich Village concerts for Impulse!, and later boundary-pushing sessions. Supported by John Coltrane and often associated with Cecil Taylor and Don Cherry, Ayler’s approach fused hymnals, marches, and folk strains into radical improvisation. He died in New York in November 1970.
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