曲目リスト

ディスク 1:

1. Holy Ghost
2. Truth Is Marching In
3. Our Prayer
4. Spirits Rejoice
5. Divine Peacemaker
6. Angels

ディスク 2:

1. For John Coltrane
2. Change Has Come
3. Light in Darkness
4. Heavenly Home
5. Spiritual Rebirth
6. Infinite Spirit
7. Omega Is the Alpha
8. Universal Thoughts

商品の詳細

• Amazon.co.jp ランキング: #471690 / ミュージック
• 発売日: 2001-01-01
• ディスク枚数: 2
• 形式: Best of, Live, Import, from UK

Amazon.com's Best of 1998
These stirring Albert Ayler performances were only sporadically available on LP two decades ago, making them highly sought-after items indeed. This two-CD set presents Ayler's Village Vanguard sets in all their rattling fervor (with remastering improvements), making 1998 a year when crucial pieces of this avant-garde jazzist's puzzle fell brilliantly into place. If anyone is recording music as fearless and commanding as this in jazz today, they deserve the spotlight. --Andrew Bartlett

From Amazon.com
There really was no one like Albert Ayler in jazz during the 1960s. Sure, John Coltrane could play monumentally complex sax, only to jettison the learned architecture for a complete reversal of virtuosity in his last works. And Pharoah Sanders could haunt and beguile with mournful cries and yawps. But Ayler was altogether different: he took the scarcest of melodies--folk and church tunes, really--and elevated them to spiritual zeniths. These live cuts were once super hard to find, on a scattering of LPs released in the 1970s. Collected as a whole on two CDs, they are a thing of pristine, if boundary-testing, beauty. Ayler takes barely any time at all before wailing into his stratospheric cries on tenor sax, and his brother Donald follows suit on trumpet with nearly the same quick leaps. The extended band includes, at its largest, the Ayler brothers with a full string quartet (Michael Sampson, violin; Joel Freedman, cello; Bill Folwell and Alan Silva, basses) and drummer Beaver Harris. They play numerous, almost easily-recognizable melodies from their oeuvre, including "Truth Is Marching In," "Spirits Rejoice," and "Omega Is the Alpha." They also offer "For John Coltrane," recorded in early 1967 after Trane's untimely demise. Spectacular would be a simple way to describe Ayler's ensemble and his compositions. But it wouldn't be out of proportion to the music. There's a reason, after all, that new jazz scion Anthony Braxton refers to avant-garde jazz of the late-1960s and after as the "post-Ayler continuum." Ayler pushed and pushed. And succeeded. --Andrew Bartlett

カスタマーレビュー

破壊せよとアイラーは言っていない
６６,６７年のグリニッチ・ヴィレッジでのライブの完全版とのこと。

サックスやトランペットのほかにバイオリンやチェロもはいった編成で、さながらトチ狂った
軍楽隊のような楽しい演奏です。テーマの部分はのどかな感じさえする演奏なんですけど、
そこから先は大変です。おもしろいです。アイラーのサックスがきれいなAngelsやFor John
Coltraneという曲もあります。

「破壊せよとアイラーは言った」といったのは作家の中上健次でしたっけ？
言わないよ、そんなこと。曲のタイトルを見ればわかりますが、アイラーはラブ＆ピースな
ひとです。まぁ、でも勢いのある演奏です。
いいですね。

アイラーの前ではフリージャズの定義は捨てよう。
ジャケットが気に入りません。良い写真が有るのに何故使わないのでしょう。残念です。

All compositions by Albert Ayler　Except Our Prayer by Don Ayler

Disc1 #1
Albert Ayler (ts) Donald Ayler (tp) Joel Freedman (cello) Lewis Worrell (b) Sunny Murray (ds)
Recorded at The Village Gate, N.Y.C on March 28, 1965

Disc1 #2～5
Albert Ayler (ts) Donald Ayler (tp) Michel Sampson (violin) Bill Folwell & Henry Grimes (basses)
Beaver Harris (d)
Recorded at The Village Vanguard, N.Y.C on December 18, 1966

Disc1 #6
Albert Ayler (ts) Probably Call Cobbs Jr, (p)
Recorded at The Village Vanguard, N.Y.C on December 18, 1966

Disc2
Albert Ayler (as/#1,ts/All Others) Donald Ayler (tp/except #1) George Stell (tb/on #8) Michel Sampson (violin) Joel Freedman (cello) Bill Folwell & Alan Silva (basses) Beaver Harris (d/except #1)
Recorded at The Village Theatre, N.Y.C on February 26, 1967

1曲目の1965年の録音を抜けば、基本的にDisc1が1966年、Disc2が1967年のLiveと言う事になります。

それぞれ好みが有ると思うので何とも言い難いのですが、初期のアルバムを聴いてから順に聴いて行くと聴き易いと思います。
いわゆるJAZZと呼ばれているものの定義から外れた場所に立ちながら純然たるJAZZを演奏しているんじゃないかと思います。

彼の事をもっと知りたいのですが、彼のオリジナルのアルバムの少なさと共に早くに亡くなり過ぎた為にLiveの音源も少な過ぎます。
20枚そこそこの録音の中に余りにも多くの事を詰め込んで旅立った彼は今も我々を困惑させ続けています。