Albert Ayler

DIGIPACK EDITION

The two tracks selected here, from the recording My Name Is Albert Ayler: “Summertime” by George Gershwin and Ayler’s original composition “C.T.,” most likely titled for Cecil Taylor, bridge Ayler’s past and point directly toward his future.

Spiritual Unity is the fusion of music and pure emotion. It is as if Ayler, Peacock, and Murray were devising their own periodic table of elements by atomizing the components of sound, substituting chords for emotions and eschewing any concept of dimensional time. Ayler’s compositions, like those of Thelonious Monk, were to be covered many times in upcoming performances and recordings.

PERSONNEL, DATES & TRACKS:

• SUMMERTIME
• Albert Ayler - (tenor saxopohone)
• Nils Bronsted - (piano on 1 only)
• Nils-Henning Orsted Pedersen - (double bass)
• Ronnie Gardiner - (drums)

• Recorded January 14, 1963 in Copenhagen

• 01 Summertime
• 02 C.T.
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• SPIRITUAL UNITY
• Albert Ayler - (tenor saxophone)
• Gary Peacock - (double bass)
• Sunny Murray - (drums)

• Recorded July 10, 1964 New York City

• 03 Ghosts: First Variation
• 04 The Wizard
• 05 Spirits
• 06 Ghosts: Second Variation
• 07 Variations