曲目リスト

1. Ghosts: First Variation
2. Wizard
3. Spirits
4. Ghosts: Second Variation

商品の詳細

• 発売日: 2004-11-29
• ディスク枚数: 1
• 形式: Import, from UK
• 寸法: .51 ポンド

From Amazon.com
This clocks in at only 29:31, but I guarantee you won't spend a more intense half-hour in your life. Basically an accomplished R&B and gospel tenor player (think of the sax break on James Brown's "Cold Sweat"), Albert Ayler began investigating the new freedom of the '60s with a monumentally expressive emotional range and an enormous blowtorched sound like the wailing babble of a thousand parishioners speaking in tongues. Hearing him try to play chord changes on some early Danish recordings is a stretch, but on this 1964 session, he perfected his basic improvisational approach and created a masterpiece. His most famous theme, "Ghosts," a sing-songy chant, is reprised twice here, proceeding from the folkish theme to airborne recitatives. Ayler achieves a heartbreaking tone on "Spirits" with a wide, almost operatic vibrato, while the collective eruptions on "The Wizard" suggest a Jackson Pollack painting come to life. Virtuoso bassist Gary Peacock provides quicksilver harmonic contrasts that are appropriately ambiguous, while maverick drummer Sunny Murray elicits a ghostly rise and fall of percussive textures--together they lend an almost impressionistic air to these impassioned freedom prayers. --Chip Stern

Album Details
1964 album pressed on 140 gram clear red vinyl. Get Back. 2004

Album Description
Ayler's Debut Release on the Esp Label Recorded July 10, 1964, it Remains a Historical Moment in Avant-garde Jazz