Albert Ayler

~ Person

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member of:	Albert Ayler Trio
original eponymous member of:	Albert Ayler Quartet (alto saxophone, tenor saxophone)
siblings:	Donald Ayler (from 1942-10-05 to present)
romantically involved with:	Mary Parks

signed by:	impulse! (jazz label active during the 60s‐70s, now property of Universal Music Group, mainly used as a reissue label)

fan pages:	http://www.albert-ayler.de/ [info] http://www.ayler.org/ [info]
purchase music for download and streaming page:	https://music.apple.com/us/artist/28102 [info]
IMDb:	https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1083567/ [info]
Discogs:	https://www.discogs.com/artist/202309 [info]
biographies:	http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8818 [info] https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albert-Ayler [info]
official homepages:	https://www.ayler.co.uk/ [info]
discography pages:	http://www.jazzdisco.org/ayler/ [info]
other databases:	http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91121096 [info] http://musicmoz.org/Bands_and_Artists/A/Ayler,_Albert/ [info] https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb138909996 [info] https://d-nb.info/gnd/119390744 [info] https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/albert_ayler [info] https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n91121096 [info]
BBC Music:	https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/b2dcc67a-45f9-4b9f-8221-3da4e0d32491 [info] (until 2020-11-19)
stream for free:	https://open.spotify.com/artist/2wn2nqzITvJ1vcMRO8Wzv6 [info] https://www.deezer.com/artist/5140 [info]
Allmusic:	https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000614339 [info]
VIAF ID:	56795255 [info]
Wikidata:	Q457125 [info]
Bandcamp:	https://albertayler.bandcamp.com/ [info]
setlist.fm:	https://www.setlist.fm/setlists/albert-ayler-43d6b3af.html [info]

Appearances

Date	Title	Attributes	Artist	Length
	instruments
1960-09-14	Leap Frog	tenor saxophone	76th A.G. Army Band	3:16
1960-09-14	Tenderly	tenor saxophone	76th A.G. Army Band	4:36
1962-06-30	Children	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	9:04
1962-06-30	On Green Dolphin Street	tenor saxophone	Herbert Katz	3:34
1962-06-30	Sonnymoon for Two	tenor saxophone	Herbert Katz	8:32
1962-06-30	Spirits (theme)	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	0:32
1962-06-30	Summertime	tenor saxophone	Herbert Katz	6:57
1962-06-30	The Wizard	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	6:56
1962-10-25	Free	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	9:42
1962-10-25	Good Bait	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	6:47
1962-10-25	I Didn’t Know What Time It Was	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	7:46
1962-10-25	I’ll Remember April	piano and tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	17:35
1962-10-25	Moanin’	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	10:16
1962-10-25	No Moe (a.k.a. Rollins’ Tune)	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	7:20
1962-10-25	Softly as in a Morning Sunrise	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	8:21
1962-10-25	Tune Up!	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	5:48
1962-11-16	Four	tenor saxophone	Cecil Taylor	21:46
1963-01-14	Billie’s Bounce	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	6:00
1963-01-14	Bye Bye Blackbird	soprano saxophone	Albert Ayler	7:17
1963-01-14	C.T.	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	12:03
1963-01-14	On Green Dolphin Street	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	9:07
1963-01-14	Summertime	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	8:47
1964-02-24	Deep River	saxophone	Albert Ayler	4:22
1964-02-24	Down by the Riverside (take 5)	saxophone	Albert Ayler	4:23
1964-02-24	Down by the Riverside (take 6)	saxophone	Albert Ayler	4:48
1964-02-24	Goin’ Home	saxophone	Albert Ayler	4:27
1964-02-24	Holy, Holy	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	11:16
1964-02-24	Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen	saxophone	Albert Ayler	4:56
1964-02-24	Ol’ Man River (take 1)	saxophone	Albert Ayler	4:05
1964-02-24	Ol’ Man River (take 2)	saxophone	Albert Ayler	5:32
1964-02-24	Saints	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	6:13
1964-02-24	Spirits	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	6:36
1964-02-24	Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (take 1)	saxophone	Albert Ayler	4:47
1964-02-24	Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (take 3)	saxophone	Albert Ayler	4:37
1964-02-24	When the Saints Go Marchin’ In	saxophone	Albert Ayler	4:25
1964-02-24	Witches and Devils	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	12:13
1964-06-14	Ghost 1’ Variation	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	11:26
1964-06-14	Ghost 2’ Variation	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	7:14
1964-06-14	Ghosts (First Variation)	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	11:15
1964-06-14	Ghosts (incomplete)	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	10:56
1964-06-14	Ghosts (Second Variation)	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	7:06
1964-06-14	Ghosts: Third Variation	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	10:20
1964-06-14	No Head	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	6:44
1964-06-14	Prophecy	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	7:10
1964-06-14	Prophecy	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	7:12
1964-06-14	Saints	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	10:35
1964-06-14	Spirits	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	7:53
1964-06-14	Spirits	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	7:54
1964-06-14	Spirits (incomplete)	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	6:45
1964-06-14	Sweet: First Variation	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	6:29
1964-06-14	Sweet: Second Variation	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	9:22
1964-06-14	Truth Is Marching In	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	10:53
1964-06-14	Wizard	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	8:25
1964-07-10	Ghosts: First Variation	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler Trio	5:17
1964-07-10	Ghosts: Second Variation	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler Trio	10:00
1964-07-10	Spirits	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler Trio	6:52
1964-07-10	The Wizard	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler Trio	7:26
1964-07-17	A Y	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, John Tchicai, Roswell Rudd, Gary Peacock, Sonny Murray	21:22
1964-07-17	Don’s Dawn	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, John Tchicai, Roswell Rudd, Gary Peacock, Sonny Murray	1:05
1964-07-17	ITT	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, John Tchicai, Roswell Rudd, Gary Peacock, Sonny Murray	23:22
1964-09-03	[tune Q]	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	8:59
1964-09-03	Children	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	8:38
1964-09-03	Mothers	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	7:53
1964-09-03	Spirits	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	8:43
1964-09-03	Spirits (theme)	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	1:27
1964-09-03	Vibrations	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	8:22
1964-09-10	Spirits	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler Quartet	4:57
1964-09-14	Children	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler Quartet	6:50
1964-09-14	Ghosts	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler Quartet	7:58
1964-09-14	Ghosts	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler Quartet	2:04
1964-09-14	Holy Spirit	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler Quartet	8:29
1964-09-14	Mothers	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler Quartet	7:06
1964-09-14	Vibrations	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler Quartet	4:55
1964-11-09	Angels	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	6:57
1964-11-09	C.A.C.	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	5:02
1964-11-09	Ghosts	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	7:31
1964-11-09	Infant Happiness	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	6:08
1964-11-09	No Name	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	5:44
1964-11-09	Spirits	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	9:12
1965-03-28	Holy Ghost	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	7:42
1965-09-23	Angels	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	5:29
1965-09-23	D.C.	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	8:00
1965-09-23	Holy Family	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	2:13
1965-09-23	Prophet	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	5:34
1965-09-23	Spirits Rejoice	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	11:40
1966-02	[untitled]	tenor saxophone	Burton Greene	8:55
1966-04-16	[F# tune]	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	15:21
1966-04-16	[untitled minor waltz]	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	7:04
1966-04-16	D.C.	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	5:58
1966-04-16	Ghosts	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	6:44
1966-04-16	Our Prayer	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	6:36
1966-04-16	Spirits Rejoice	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	4:39
1966-04-17	[F# tune]	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	9:17
1966-04-17	[untitled] / Truth Is Marchin’ In	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	15:41
1966-04-17	Our Prayer / Spirits Rejoice	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	9:43
1966-04-17	Prophet / Ghosts / Spiritual Bells	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	14:33
1966-04-17	Spirits	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	9:24
1966-04-17	Spirits	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	7:00
1966-04-17	Spirits Rejoice	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	6:31
1966-04-17	Spiritual Bells	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler	3:53
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	vocals
1967-07-27	Love Cry / Truth Is Marching In / Our Prayer		Albert Ayler	6:27
1967-08-31	Love Cry		Albert Ayler	3:56
1967	Japan / Universal Indians		Albert Ayler	5:41
1968-08	[blues]		Albert Ayler	6:07
1968-08	[sermon]		Albert Ayler	0:56
1968-08	New Ghosts (demo fragments)		Albert Ayler	7:10
1968-08	Thank God for Women		Albert Ayler	10:20
1968-09-06	Message From Albert/New Grass	spoken vocals [recitation]	Albert Ayler	3:55
1969-08-26	A Man Is Like a Tree		Albert Ayler	4:34
1969-08-26	Again Comes the Rising of the Sun		Albert Ayler	6:52
1969-08-26	Desert Blood		Albert Ayler	5:57
1969-08-26	Music Is the Healing Force of the Universe		Albert Ayler	8:40
1969-08-27	All Love		Albert Ayler	8:59
1969-08-27	Birth of Mirth		Albert Ayler	5:20
1969-08-27	Drudgery		Albert Ayler	8:08
1969-08-27	Island Harvest		Albert Ayler	4:55
1969-08-27	Masonic Inborn, Part 1		Albert Ayler	12:08
1969-08-27	Oh! Love of Life		Albert Ayler	3:48
1969-08-27	Toiling		Albert Ayler	5:05
1969-08-27	Water Music		Albert Ayler	6:08
1970-07-25	(Blairman enters)	spoken vocals	Albert Ayler	0:34
1970-07-25	["I Love America" and youth]	spoken vocals	Albert Ayler	1:05
1970-07-25	[“Space Music”]	spoken vocals	Albert Ayler	1:07
1970-07-25	[“Thank God for Women”]	spoken vocals	Albert Ayler	0:46
1970-07-25	[ahead of my time]	spoken vocals	Albert Ayler	1:42
1970-07-25	[Antibes]	spoken vocals	Albert Ayler	1:06
1970-07-25	[blues & rhythm]	spoken vocals	Albert Ayler	1:17
1970-07-25	[Charles Ives]	spoken vocals	Albert Ayler	0:25
1970-07-25	[childhood memories, part 1]	spoken vocals	Albert Ayler	2:00
1970-07-25	[childhood memories, part 2]	spoken vocals	Albert Ayler	1:09
1970-07-25	[clubs]	spoken vocals	Albert Ayler	3:40
1970-07-25	[copying my records]	spoken vocals	Albert Ayler	2:00
1970-07-25	[current activity]	spoken vocals	Albert Ayler	2:03
1970-07-25	[defining “improvisation”]	spoken vocals	Albert Ayler	0:45
1970-07-25	[diet and America]	spoken vocals	Albert Ayler	2:08
1970-07-25	[Don's music]	spoken vocals	Albert Ayler	3:47
1970-07-25	[Don]	spoken vocals	Albert Ayler	0:46
1970-07-25	[early professional career]	spoken vocals	Albert Ayler	1:03
1970-07-25	[early relationships and Mary Maria]	spoken vocals	Albert Ayler	1:03
1970-07-25	[home Lives: Brooklyn and Cleveland]	spoken vocals	Albert Ayler	1:27
1970-07-25	[impulse!, part 1: Hippies]	spoken vocals	Albert Ayler	1:21
1970-07-25	[impulse!, part 2: New Grass]	spoken vocals	Albert Ayler	2:18
1970-07-25	[influences]	spoken vocals	Albert Ayler	1:44
1970-07-25	[Japan / Coltrane's funeral]	spoken vocals	Albert Ayler	1:02
1970-07-25	[Japan work and warm weather]	spoken vocals	Albert Ayler	4:02
1970-07-25	[Maeght group]	spoken vocals	Albert Ayler	0:57
1970-07-25	[Mary and golf]	spoken vocals	Albert Ayler	0:38
1970-07-25	[naming tunes]	spoken vocals	Albert Ayler	1:22
1970-07-25	[New York: keeping to oneself] (Mary Maria joins)	spoken vocals	Albert Ayler	0:44
1970-07-25	[Newport ’67]	spoken vocals	Albert Ayler	2:30
1970-07-25	[play solo]	spoken vocals	Albert Ayler	0:24
1970-07-25	[practicing]	spoken vocals	Albert Ayler	1:09
1970-07-25	[Rollins, Coleman and Coltrane]	spoken vocals	Albert Ayler	4:08
1970-07-25	[serenity of life]	spoken vocals	Albert Ayler	0:36
1970-07-25	[Sonny Rollins, reactions, and Miles Davis]	spoken vocals	Albert Ayler	2:43
1970-07-25	[The Healing Force]	spoken vocals	Albert Ayler	0:52
1970-07-25	[tone and “vibration”]	spoken vocals	Albert Ayler	1:07
	Universal Indians		Albert Ayler	9:49
	Universal Indians (alternate take)		Albert Ayler	7:35
	instruments
1964-07-17	New York Eye and Ear Control (mono)	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, John Tchicai, Roswell Rudd, Gary Peacock & Sonny Murray
1965-05-01	Bells	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler
1965-11	Sonny's Time Now	tenor saxophone	Sunny Murray
1966-05-01	Slug's Saloon	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler
1970-06-27	Nuits de la Fondation Maeght, Volume 1	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler
1970-07-25	Live on the Riviera	accordion, soprano saxophone and tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler
	European Radio Studio Recordings 1964	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler Quartet
	Love Cry	alto saxophone and tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler
	Music Is the Healing Force of the Universe	bagpipe, ocarina and tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler
	New Grass	bagpipe, ocarina and tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler
	New Grass	bagpipe, ocarina and tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler
	Nuits de la Fondation Maeght, Volume 1	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler
	Nuits de la Fondation Maeght, Volume 2	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler
	Slugs' Saloon	tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler
	The Last Album	bagpipe and tenor saxophone	Albert Ayler
	vocals
1970-07-25	Live on the Riviera		Albert Ayler
	Love Cry		Albert Ayler
	Music Is the Healing Force of the Universe		Albert Ayler
	New Grass		Albert Ayler
	The Last Album		Albert Ayler
	dedications
	13 Miniatures for Albert Ayler		Jean-Jacques Avenel – Jacqueline Caux – Jean-Luc Cappozzo – Steve Dalachinsky – Simon Goubert – Raphaël Imbert – Sylvain Kassap – Joëlle Léandre – Urs Leimgruber – Didier Levallet – Ramon Lopez – Joe McPhee – Evan Parker – Barre Phillips – Michel Portal – Lucia Recio – Christian Rollet – John Tchicai
	Fragments of Music, Life and Death of Albert Ayler		Die Like a Dog: Peter Brötzmann, Toshinori Kondo, William Parker, Hamid Drake
	tribute albums
	Tribute to Albert Ayler: Live at the Dynamo		Joe McPhee, Roy Campbell, William Parker & Warren Smith
	composed
	[blues]
	[C minor]
	[F minor / C minor]
	[F# tune]
	[F# tune]
	[Free Spiritual Music, Part IV]
	[sermon]
	[tune Q]
	[untitled minor waltz]
	[untitled] (incomplete)
	[untitled] / Truth Is Marchin' In
	Angels
	Bells
	Birth of Mirth
	C.T.
	Children
	Divine Peacemaker
	Everybody’s Movin’
	Free
	Free at Last
	Ghosts
	Ghosts / Bells
	Ghosts / Spirits
	Heart Love
	Heavenly Home
	Holy Ghost
	Holy, Holy
	Infinite Spirit
	Japan / Universal Indians
	Light in Darkness
	Love Cry / Truth Is Marching In / Our Prayer
	Message From Albert
	Mothers
	Mothers / Children
	New Generation
	New Ghosts
	New Ghosts (demo fragments)
	New Grass
	Omega
	Omega Is the Alpha
	Our Prayer
	Our Prayer / Spirits Rejoice
	Prophecy
	Prophet / Ghosts / Spiritual Bells
	Saints
	Saints
	Spirits
	Spirits
	Spirits (theme)
	Spirits Rejoice
	Spiritual Bells
	Spiritual Rebirth
	Sun Watcher
	Thank God for Women
	The Wizard
	Truth Is Marching In
	Truth Is Marching In / Omega
	Universal Indians
	Vibrations
	Witches and Devils
	Zion Hill
	dedicated works
	Blues for Albert and Don Ayler
	Composition No. 23E
	Homage to Albert Ayler
	Lebert Aaly

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