Albert Ayler Quartet - Love Cry, Truth Is Marching In, Our Prayer

[vontrenter]

Jag är uppriktigt glad att Ayler överlevde Coltrane så han fick den här musiken på begravningen. Det var han värd!!!

[panckko]

@LGLG69 For me, some of Albert's music takes time to feel it or warm up to it, including this. Spirtual Unity is a better listen than this.

What a pointless post. This is important for historical reasons. There are lots of things I prefer to listen to but that's not the point.

[mantaishere]

This is really incredible...

[hazardous541]

music from another place

[lowgrau]

The other band was Ornette. They played Holiday for a Graveyard

[nypunkeer]

@lowgrau Do you know if that is recorded/available anywhere?

[lowgrau]

@nypunkeer Yeah, it was recorded on little cassette recorder, and I think what you got here is pretty much it.

You can hear Ornette's tune, with a name change, now called Garden of Souls, on a Blue Note album New York is Now. Highly recommended.

[lowgrau]

The other band was Ornette

[edcerc]

well this would objectively have to be the best funeral in history.

[themindtransferral]

HOLY SHIT!

[masaaiza]

Albert, Pray For Japan,Pray For To Tohoku,Pray For My Ishinomaki.And Pray For World.

俺達はあまりに無力だが、進み続けなくてはならない。

[masaaiza]

Albert ,pray for japan,pray for Tohouku,pray for My ishinomaki.

[saintpistolsburg]

Best sax player ever. He and Coltrane. And Ben Webster. And Dexter Gordon. And Eric Dolphy. But Albert's playing just has the strangest emotion to it that just kills me.

[DYNODRUM]

Heralding The ANGEL'S Like No Other.....

[electricmeg]

MMMMMMMMM! Amazing how funerals bring out unquenchable moments! I'm so glad to hear this.

[tani11sax]

なぜテナーを吹いているのに音はソプラノなんだ！！

[fekete2008]

@tani11sax

at google you can translate it

[LGLG69]

For me, some of Albert's music takes time to feel it or warm up to it, including this. Spirtual Unity is a better listen than this.

[JustJake57]

@LGLG69 What is it with folks like you.....I, I, I, me, me, me thinks. Why not just let it be. It's 1967. It's Coltrane's funeral in what is probably St. Peter's Church in midtown Manahattan. It's an audience recording, that just breathes, sweats of the sad sad emotion of that day.

Just shut up and listen forchristsake. Everyone has an opinion and it has nothing to do with the beauty of this music.

[LGLG69]

@JustJake57 oh just chill out. You don't know me from " the "Man on the moon". I'm entitled to my opinion just as you are.

[JustJake57]

@LGLG69 The point is, I'm not offering up an opinion and more than likely I don't want to know you, though the man in the moon is probably far more fucking interestin. You on the other hand are like the thousands of jergovs on here thinking that your thoughts actually matter because you know ALL. It's always he does it better blah blah blahdefuckingblah blah. STFU

[LGLG69]

@JustJake57 No, I don't "know ALL", nor, do I pretend that I do. I just made a comment that some of his music is difficult for myself to take in. Even the hosts of the jazz radio station I listen to have said "Albert's music from 1967 and on is not for the casual jazz listener". That's not necessarily a bad thing, but I do find that to be true.

[electricmongoloid]

A genius celebrating another genius

[iamgavin2]

Incredible. Im just discovering AA today, always knew he was great but I have been saving it up :-)

There's a lovely conversation piece with Don Cherry about AA on youtube, I'd just played before this - and this is every bit as astonishing as DC describes

[postmeback]

despite the recording quality (which is any case is ok, by bootleg standards - you can hear all the instruments clearly) this is clearly a performance of great power. ensemble melody playing with a specially passioante quality imparted by the elvin-jones inspired (?) rollings and crashings of milford graves' superlative drum accompaniment. at times donald takes the lead, at times albert.

[postmeback]

(continued) the echo in the church enhances the grandeur. the vocalisations at the end (graves), spirits shouting and departing, the last post for coltrane. this is music of occasion, of solemnity and power.

[OLAPuTiPuTi]

cries were from Albert Ayler

[jedirhythm]

@postmeback

the vocals at the end are Albert Ayler's. Pr. Graves does similar singing nowadays, but it's just like Albert's singing on the Love Cry album.

[wii6tomoki]

@postmeback

i thought it was alice coltrane crying and screaming

its just a opinion

then again

you can feel that the wife lost her husband

[JustJake57]

@postmeback Thank you. Passionate, powerful is the operative 'stream of consciousness' in play here.

[tenorman64]

thank you, that's really moving.

[oegaziz43]

This is nearly overwhelming. Thanks for the post.

[Robusto103]

where did you find this recording??? I want it!!!!

[cooks37]

Holy Ghost: Rare & Unissued Recordings (1962-70)