Albert Ayler – Holy Ghost

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Label:

 Revenant – RVN 213

Format:
10 x CD , Compilation
Box Set

Country:

 US

Released:

Genre:

 Non-Music

Style:

 Interview

Tracklist

1-1 Albert Ayler– Sonnymoon For Two
Written-By – Sonny Rollins
8:29
1-2 Albert Ayler– Summertime
6:53
1-3 Albert Ayler– On Green Dolphin Street
Written-By – Bronislau Kaper*
3:26
1-4 Borge Roger Henrichsen*– Spoken Intro 0:42
1-5 Albert Ayler– Four
Alto Saxophone – Jimmy Lyons (2)
Piano – Cecil Taylor
Written-By – Cecil Taylor
21:46
1-6 Albert Ayler Trio– Spirits [Incomplete] 6:38
1-7 Albert Ayler Trio– Saints 10:32
1-8 Albert Ayler Trio– Ghosts [Incomplete] 10:56
2-1 Albert Ayler Trio– The Wizard 6:51
2-2 Albert Ayler Trio– Children 9:05
2-3 Albert Ayler Trio– Spirits [Theme] 0:28
2-4 Unknown Artist– Spoken Radio Introduction 0:55
2-5 Albert Ayler Quartet– Spirits 8:43
2-6 Albert Ayler Quartet– Vibrations 8:23
2-7 Albert Ayler Quartet– [Tune Q] 8:59
2-8 Albert Ayler Quartet– Mothers 7:53
2-9 Albert Ayler Quartet– Children 8:38
2-10 Albert Ayler Quartet– Spirits [Theme] 1:25
2-11 Albert Ayler– [Untitled] (Collective)
Drums – Rashied Ali
Piano – Greene*
Tenor Saxophone – Frank Smith (9)
8:55
First Set
3-1 Peter Bergman (2)– Spoken Introduction By Peter Bergman 1:03
3-2 Albert Ayler Quintet– Spirits Rejoice 4:39
3-3 Albert Ayler Quintet– D.C.
Written-By – Don Cherry
5:58
3-4 Albert Ayler Quintet– [Untitled Minor Waltz] 7:04
3-5 Albert Ayler Quintet– Our Prayer
Written-By – Don Ayler*
6:33
Second Set
3-6 Peter Bergman (2)– Spoken Introduction By Peter Bergman 1:13
3-7 Albert Ayler Quintet– [F# Tune] 15:20
3-8 Albert Ayler Quintet– Ghosts 6:32
First Set
3-9 Albert Ayler Quintet– Spirits Rejoice 6:31
3-10 Albert Ayler Quintet– Prophet / Ghosts / Spiritual Bells 14:33
3-11 Albert Ayler Quintet– Our Prayer / Spirits Rejoice
Written-By [Our Prayer] – Don Ayler*
9:43
Second Set
4-1 Albert Ayler Quintet– [Untitled] / Truth Is Marching In 15:43
4-2 Albert Ayler Quintet– Spirits 9:16
4-3 Albert Ayler Quintet– Zion Hill 12:40
4-4 Albert Ayler Quintet– Spirits 7:00
4-5 Albert Ayler Quintet– Spiritual Bells 3:48
4-6 Albert Ayler Quintet– [F# Tune] 9:18
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5-1 Ralf Schulte-Bahrenberg– Concert Announcement By Ralf Schulte-Bahrenberg 1:10
5-2 Albert Ayler Quintet– Ghosts / Bells 11:15
5-3 Albert Ayler Quintet– Truth Is Marching In 7:07
5-4 Albert Ayler Quintet– Omega 3:48
5-5 Albert Ayler Quintet– Our Prayer
Written-By – Don Ayler*
4:39
5-6 Peter de Wit (3)– Spoken Introduction By Peter de Wit 1:25
5-7 Albert Ayler Quintet– Truth Is Marching In 11:14
5-8 Albert Ayler Quintet– Bells 5:35
5-9 Albert Ayler Quintet– Spirits Rejoice 10:51
5-10 Albert Ayler Quintet– "Free Spiritual Music", Part IV 6:44
6-1 Albert Ayler Quintet– Truth Is Marching In / Omega 9:00
6-2 Albert Ayler Quintet– Japan / Universal Indians
Vocals – Ayler*
Written-By [Japan] – Traditional
5:41
6-3 Albert Ayler Quintet– Our Prayer
Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone – Ayler*
Written-By – Don Ayler*
8:19
6-4 Albert Ayler Quartet– Love Cry / Truth Is Marching In/Our Prayer
Vocals – Ayler*
Written-By [Our Prayer] – Don Ayler*
6:24
6-5 Albert Ayler– Venus / Upper And Lower Egypt
Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – Unknown*
Bass – Sirone
Drums – Roger Blank
Piano – Dave Burrell
Tenor Saxophone – Sanders*
Trumpet – Chris Capers
Written-By – Pharoah Sanders
22:59
6-6 Albert Ayler– [Blues] 6:04
6-7 Albert Ayler– [Sermon]
Soloist [Solo Recitation] – Ayler*
0:50
6-8 Albert Ayler– Thank God For Women
Written-By – Mary Parks
10:16
6-9 Albert Ayler– New Ghosts [Demo Fragments]
Written-By – Mary Parks
7:10
7-1 Albert Ayler– Prophet John
Alto Saxophone – Albert Ayler
Bass – Ibrahim Wahen
Drums – Muhammed Ali*
Tenor Saxophone – Sam Rivers
Written-By – Don Ayler*
10:53
7-2 Albert Ayler– Judge Ye Not
Alto Saxophone – Albert Ayler
Bass – Ibrahim Wahen
Drums – Muhammed Ali*
Tenor Saxophone – Sam Rivers
Written-By – Don Ayler*
10:16
7-3 Albert Ayler Quartet– Mothers / Children 8:42
7-4 Albert Ayler Quartet– [Untitled, Incomplete] 14:14
7-5 Albert Ayler Quartet– [C Minor] 5:21
7-6 Albert Ayler Quartet– [F Minor / C Minor] 10:36
8-1 Albert Ayler– Travel And Plans 1:49
8-2 Albert Ayler– Holbaek 0:39
8-3 Albert Ayler– The New Blues 1:33
8-4 Albert Ayler– Christmastime Stateside 1:10
8-5 Albert Ayler– A Great Change 1:35
8-6 Albert Ayler– Traveling And Coltrane 1:00
8-7 Albert Ayler– Drummers And Sunny Murray 1:42
8-8 Albert Ayler– A Job To Do 1:00
8-9 Albert Ayler– Birth, Family, First Music 3:04
8-10 Albert Ayler– Academy, The Road, School 0:57
8-11 Albert Ayler– Young Professional And Army 5:40
8-12 Albert Ayler– Sweden 4:39
8-13 Albert Ayler– New York 0:49
8-14 Albert Ayler– 1964 1:25
8-15 Albert Ayler– Frustration, Sources 3:39
8-16 Albert Ayler– 1966 Tour And Coltrane 3:16
8-17 Albert Ayler– Impulse And Mary Maria 3:27
8-18 Albert Ayler– The Artist's Life 1:31
8-19 Albert Ayler– Question: LeRoi Jones 0:46
8-20 Albert Ayler– Question: "For John Coltrane" 1:10
8-21 Albert Ayler– Question: Socio-Policial Connections 3:19
8-22 Albert Ayler– Question: Instrumentation, Engineering 4:16
8-23 Albert Ayler– Choosing The Players 0:50
9-1 Albert Ayler– Current Activity 1:59
9-2 Albert Ayler– Antibes 1:06
9-3 Albert Ayler– Japan/Coltrane's Funeral 1:02
9-4 Albert Ayler– Clubs 3:39
9-5 Albert Ayler– Ahead Of My Time 1:42
9-6 Albert Ayler– Home Lives; Brooklyn And Cleveland 1:27
9-7 Albert Ayler– Impulse, pt. 1: Hippies 1:21
9-8 Albert Ayler– "Space Music" 1:07
9-9 Albert Ayler– Don 0:46
9-10 Albert Ayler– "Thank God For Women" 0:46
9-11 Albert Ayler– Blues & Rhythm 1:17
9-12 Albert Ayler– Copying My Records 2:00
9-13 Albert Ayler– Impulse, pt. 2: New Grass 2:18
9-14 Albert Ayler– Tone And "Vibration" 1:07
9-15 Albert Ayler– Rollins, Coleman, And Coltrane 4:08
9-16 Albert Ayler– Maeght Group 0:57
9-17 Albert Ayler– Serenity Of Life 0:36
9-18 Albert Ayler– Childhood Memories, pt. 1 2:00
9-19 Albert Ayler– [Blairman Enters] 0:34
9-20 Albert Ayler– Early Professional Career 1:03
9-21 Albert Ayler– Childhood Memories, pt. 2 1:09
9-22 Albert Ayler– Don's Music 3:47
9-23 Albert Ayler– "I Love America" And Youth 1:05
9-24 Albert Ayler– Mary And Golf 0:38
9-25 Albert Ayler– Early Relationships And Mary Maria 1:03
9-26 Albert Ayler– Japan Work And Warm Weather 4:01
9-27 Albert Ayler– Play Solo 0:24
9-28 Albert Ayler– Naming Tunes 1:22
9-29 Albert Ayler– Charles Ives 0:25
9-30 Albert Ayler– Influences 1:44
9-31 Albert Ayler– Practicing 1:09
9-32 Albert Ayler– The Healing Force 0:52
9-33 Albert Ayler– Diet And America 2:08
9-34 Albert Ayler– Defining "Improvisation" 0:45
9-35 Albert Ayler– Sonny Rollins, Reactions, And Miles Davis 2:43
9-36 Albert Ayler– Newport '67 2:30
9-37 Albert Ayler– New York: Keeping To Oneself [Mary Maria s] 0:39
9-38 Mocqui Cherry*– Untitled
Interviewee – Mocqui Cherry*
22:10
10-1 US Army Band*– Tenderly
Tenor Saxophone [Solo@2:30;3:04] – Ayler*
Written-By – Gross*
4:32
10-2 US Army Band*– Leap Frog
Tenor Saxophone [All 4 Exposed Improvs.] – Ayler*
Written-By – Garland*
3:16

Companies, etc.

  • Licensed From – Albert Ayler Estate
  • Licensed From – YLE
  • Designed At – World of anArchie
  • Recorded At – Jazzhus Montmartre
  • Recorded At – Slugs' Saloon
  • Recorded At – La Cave
  • Recorded At – Berliner Philharmonie
  • Recorded At – De Doelen
  • Recorded At – Freebody Park
  • Recorded At – Renaissance Ballroom
  • Recorded At – Cellar Cafe
  • Recorded At – Town Hall, New York
  • Manufactured By – Solo Media – SO-35727
  • Manufactured By – Solo Media – SO-35979
  • Manufactured By – Solo Media – SO-35728
  • Manufactured By – Solo Media – SO-35729
  • Manufactured By – Solo Media – SO-35730
  • Manufactured By – Solo Media – SO-35759
  • Manufactured By – Solo Media – SO-35760
  • Manufactured By – Solo Media – SO-35800
  • Manufactured By – Solo Media – SO-35761
  • Manufactured By – Solo Media – SO-35731

Credits

  • Art Direction – Noel Waggener
  • Artwork [Original Carved Wooden "Spirit Box"] – Reagan Johns
  • Bass – Steve Tintweiss (tracks: 2-11, 7-3 to 7-6)
  • Cornet – Don Cherry (tracks: 2-5 to 2-10)
  • Design [Chapter Header Silkscreen Design, Execution] – Satch Grimley
  • Design [Production Design], Layout, Creative Director [Direction] – Susan Archie
  • Drums – Sunny Murray (tracks: 1-5 to 2-3, 2-5 to 2-10)
  • Electric Bass – Bill Folwell (tracks: 6-6 to 6-9)
  • Guitar – Herbert Katz (tracks: 1-1, 1-2, 1-3)
  • Harpsichord [Rocksichord] – Call Cobbs (tracks: 6-6 to 6-9)
  • Interviewee – Ayler* (tracks: 8-1 to 9-37)
  • Interviewer – Kiyoshi Koyama (tracks: 9-1 to 9-37)
  • Liner Notes [Appendix] – Carlos Kase
  • Liner Notes [Essays] – Val Wilmer*
  • Mastered By [Final Mastering For CD] – Kevin Reeves
  • Photography By – Val Wilmer*
  • Piano – Teuvo Suojärvi (tracks: 1-1 to 1-3)
  • Research [Photograph Research, Consultation] – Cynthia Sesso
  • Supervised By [Project Supervision] – Ben Young (3)
  • Tenor Saxophone – Frank Wright (tracks: 4-1 to 4-6)
  • Transferred By [Audio Transfers], Restoration, Remastered By – Ben Young (3)
  • Trumpet – Don Ayler* (tracks: 3-2 to 3-5, 3-7 to 4-6, 5-2 to 5-5, 5-7 to 6-4, 7-1, 7-2)
  • Violin – Michel Samson (tracks: 3-2 to 3-5, 3-7 to 4-6, 5-2 to 5-5, 5-7 to 6-3)
  • Vocals – Vivian Bostic (tracks: 6-6 to 6-9)
  • Vocals, Tambourine – Mary Parks (tracks: 6-6 to 6-9, 7-3 to 7-6)

Notes

Rare and unreleased recordings from 1962-1970 in a 9CD 'Spirit Box', plus a bonus disc of Albert Ayler with a U.S. Army Band.

The boxset includes:
- a 208 page full-color hardbound book which includes new essays by Amiri Baraka, Val Wilmer & other Ayler scholars
- a picture of Ayler with saxophone from his youth
- a photostat of a handwritten note from a Copenhagen hotel
- a reprinted copy of a Slugs flyer which includes a listing for a week of Ayler's quintet
- a reprinted 1965 pamphlet by the late poet Paul Haines entitled Ayler-Peacock-Murray-You and the Night and the Music
- a reprinted newsletter from 1969 by Jihad Productions with excerpts about Ayler
- a dried flower

1-1 to 1-3: Recorded June 30, 1962 in Helsinki, Finland
1-4 to 1-5: Recorded poss. November 16, 1962 in Copenhagen, Denmark
1-6 to 2-3: Recorded June 14, 1964 at the Cellar Café, New York City
2-4 to 2-10: Recorded September 3, 1964 at Café Montmartre: Copenhagen, Denmark
2-11: Recorded February 1966 at Slug's: New York City
3-1 to 3-8: Recorded April 16, 1966 at La Cave: Cleveland
3-9 to 4-6: Recorded April 17, 1966 at La Cave: Cleveland
5-1 to 5-5: Recorded November 3, 1966 at Berlin Philharmonic: Berlin,
5-6 to 5-10: Recorded November 8, 1966 at De Doelen: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
6-1 to 6-3: Recorded June 30/July 1, 1967 at Freebody Park: Newport, Rhode Island
6-4: Recorded at the funeral of John Coltrane, July 21, 1967 at St. Peter's Lutheran Church: New York City
6-5: Recorded January 21, 1968 at the Renaissance Ballroom: New York City
6-6 to 6-9: Recorded ca. late August 1968 in New York City area
7-1 to 7-2: Recorded January 11, 1969 at Town Hall: New York City
7-3 to 7-6: Recorded prob. July 28, 1970 at La Colle sur Loup: Saint-Paul-de-Vence,
8-1 to 8-4: Ayler interview for "Afterbeat" program. Recorded early December 1964 in Copenhagen, Denmark
8-5 to 8-8: Ayler interview for "Afterbeat" program. Recorded on or around November 11, 1966 in Copenhagen, Denmark
8-9 to 8-23: Ayler interview for " Culture". Recorded July 27, 1970 in Saint-Paul-de-Vence,
9-1 to 9-37: Ayler interview for "Swing Journal". Recorded July 25, 1970 in Saint-Paul-de-Vence,
9-38: Don and Mocqui Cherry interview. Recorded in Paris, 1971
10-1 to 10-2: U.S. Army 76th AG Band Rehearsal. Recorded Sept. 14, 1960

Recordings made available under license from the Albert Ayler estate and various rights holders.
Disc 1/Tracks 1-3 made available under license through special arrangement with Finnish Broadcasting Company-Yleisradio, through the good works of Matti Konttinen.

NOTE: The boxed set was released with mastering/pressing flaw on disc 6. Because of this for a limited time Revenant provided a replacement disc to those who purchased the boxed set and requested the replacement disc by mail or email. This replacement disc was mailed in a cardboard mailer with a blank card stock cover. The mastering issue appears to be a volume and minor clarity issue on some tracks, the remastering adds one second to both tracks 6-6 and 6-9.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Barcode: 630814021320
  • Other (Cat# CD 10): RVN213GCD10
  • Matrix / Runout (CD 1): [20040514 106199 SO-35727 SOLO MEDIA AUSTIN-TX REVENANT/ AYLER -1 11263] x 2
  • Matrix / Runout (CD 2): [20040520 106211 SO-35979 SOLO MEDIA AUSTIN-TX REVENANT/ AYLER -2 12345] x 2
  • Matrix / Runout (CD 3): [20040514 106200 SO-35728 SOLO MEDIA AUSTIN-TX REVENANT/ AYLER -3 11262] x 2
  • Matrix / Runout (CD 4): [20040514 106201 SO-35729 SOLO MEDIA AUSTIN-TX REVENANT/ AYLER -4 11245] x 2
  • Matrix / Runout (CD 5): [20040514 106202 SO-35730 SOLO MEDIA AUSTIN-TX REVENANT/ AYLER -5 11261] x 2
  • Matrix / Runout (CD 6): [20040518 106206 SO-35759 SOLO MEDIA AUSTIN-TX REVENANT/ AYLER -6 11602] x 2
  • Matrix / Runout (CD 7): [20040518 106207 SO-35760 SOLO MEDIA AUSTIN-TX REVENANT/ AYLER -7 11304] x 2
  • Matrix / Runout (CD 8): [20040520 106212 SO-35800 SOLO MEDIA AUSTIN-TX REVENANT/ AYLER -8 12146] x 2
  • Matrix / Runout (CD 9): [20040518 106208 SO-35761 SOLO MEDIA AUSTIN-TX REVENANT/ AYLER -9 11301] x 2
  • Matrix / Runout (CD 10): [Y20040514 106203 SO-35731 SOLO MEDIA AUSTIN-TX REVENANT/ AYLER -10 11287] x 2
  • Mastering SID Code: none
  • Mould SID Code: none

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Reviews

  • heroinsaves69's avatar
    heroinsaves69
    Christ this things like a reliquary... You open it up expecting to find a finger bone from Ayler in here... My parent's ashes didn't come in a box this nice. Of course neither one of my parents could play saxophone worth a sh*t...
    • romualdo1's avatar
      romualdo1
      I bought the box in 2004 (soon after it was released) - I've just listened to disc 6 (a couple of times), the original one that came with the box (on both a dedicated CD player plus a desktop computer with a Mac external disc drive). No discernable "clicking" heard at all. Not sure what the "pressing flaw" that Revenant referred to was - the disc sounds fine - the Sanders track does sound a bit more muffled than than the rest of the material on the disc - that's all I can detect.
      • C-aug7's avatar
        C-aug7
        Edited 9 years ago
        Disc 6 is full of data errors. First I thought it's my copy... in particular the Sanders tune suffers from permanent clicking which is caused by an inaccurate copying process of a source CDR. I got to hear a second copy and it has the same problems. This is a typical phenomenon from the days when fans exchanged unofficial live music on CDRs by snail mail.
        I'll go through the whole box soon by head-phones; I'll update this comment in case I find more really problematic tracks.

        Too bad - this includes amazing documents, but those technical deffects massively spoil the fun in certain spots. Let's keep in mind that certain tracks were glitch-free at an ealier point in their line-age. Grrrr.

        edit:
        I just read in the note above about those "mastering/pressing flaws" on disc 6. If this indeed refers to "a volume and minor clarity issue" then it's not the glitches I'm talking about.

        It would be interesting to have somebody with the mentioned replacement disc report if the Sanders tune has digi-clicks or not.
        • mumjum23's avatar
          mumjum23
          Edited 10 years ago
          Edited (deleted) 22 March 2015.
          • grunon's avatar
            grunon
            Best free jazz compilation ever. A must

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