Albert Ayler (1936-1970): Spirits

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  • Label: Klimt
  • Order number: 4928884
  • Release date: 16.6.2011
  1. 1 Spirits
  2. 2 Witches And Devils
  3. 3 Holy, Holy
  4. 4 Saints

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After a few years spent living in Sweden and touring with Cecil Taylor's Jazz Unit, Ayler moved to NYC to begin imposing his revolutionary style of jazz on the world through a number of groundbreaking records. Spirits, recorded at Atlantic Studios in New York City on 24 February 1964, was his first effort. Recorded a few months prior to his landmark album for ESP-Disk, Spiritual Unity (but only released in Europe on Denmark's Debut Records), for the occasion Ayler recruited Norman Howard (a Cleveland-based trumpeter), well-known bassist Henry Grimes, drummer and right-hand man Sunny Murray and the then-unknown bassist Earle Henderson. This historic early disc is essential Ayler.

EUR 16.99*

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