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HOLY GHOST rare & unissued recordings (1962 - 70) 9 CD Spirit Box
Disc 1 Tracks 1. Sonnymoon for Two (Sonny Rollins) (8:29) 2. Summertime (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin) (6:53) 3. On Green Dolphin Street (Bronislau Kaper) (3:26)
Personnel Herbert Katz Quintet: Herbert Katz (guitar) Albert Ayler (tenor saxophone) Teuvo Suojärvi (piano) Heikki Annala (bass) Martti Äijänen (drums).
Recording Details June 30, 1962 Helsinki, Finland
Tracks 4. Spoken introductions by broadcast announcer and Borge Roger Henrichsen (0:42) 5. Four (Cecil Taylor) (21:46)
Personnel Cecil Taylor Quartet: Cecil Taylor (piano) Jimmy Lyons (alto saxophone) Albert Ayler (tenor saxophone) Sunny Murray (drums)
Recording Details possibly November 16, 1962 Copenhagen, Denmark
Tracks 6. Spirits [incomplete] (6:38) 7. Saints (10:32) 8. Ghosts [incomplete] (10:56)
Personnel Albert Ayler Trio: Albert Ayler (tenor saxophone) Gary Peacock (bass) Sunny Murray (drums)
Recording Details June 14, 1964 Cellar Café, New York City
Disc 2 Tracks 1. The Wizard (6:51) 2. Children (9:05) 3. Spirits [theme] (0:28)
Personnel Albert Ayler Trio: Albert Ayler (tenor saxophone) Gary Peacock (bass) Sunny Murray (drums)
Recording Details June 14, 1964 Cellar Café, New York City
Tracks 4. Spoken radio introduction (0:55) 5. Spirits (8:43) 6. Vibrations (8:23) 7. [Tune Q] (8:59) 8. Mothers (7:53) 9. Children (8:38) 10. Spirits [theme] (1:25)
Personnel Albert Ayler Quartet: Albert Ayler (tenor saxophone) Don Cherry (cornet) Gary Peacock (bass) Sunny Murray (drums)
Recording Details September 3, 1964 Café Montmartre, Copenhagen, Denmark
Tracks 11. Untitled (collective) (8:55)
Personnel Burton Greene Quintet: Burton Greene (piano) Albert Ayler (tenor saxophone) Frank Smith (tenor saxophone) Steve Tintweiss (bass) Rashied Ali (drums)
Recording Details February, 1966 Slugs’, New York City
Disc 3 Tracks First Set (16/4/66) 1. Spoken introduction by Peter Bergman (1:03) 2. Spirits Rejoice (4:39) 3. D.C. (Don Cherry) (5:58) 4. Untitled minor waltz (7:04) 5. Our Prayer (Don Ayler) (6:33) Second Set (16/4/66) 6. Spoken introduction by Peter Bergman (1:13) 7. [F# tune] (15:20) 8. Ghosts (6:32) First Set (17/4/66) 9. Spirits Rejoice (6:31) 10. Prophet / Ghosts / Spiritual Bells (14:33) 11. Our Prayer / Spirits Rejoice (Don Ayler / Albert Ayler) (9:43)
Personnel Albert Ayler Quintet: Albert Ayler (tenor saxophone) Don Ayler (trumpet) Michel Samson (violin) Mutawef Shaheed [then known as Clyde Shy] (bass) Ronald Shannon Jackson (drums)
Recording Details Tracks 1 to 8: April 16, 1966 La Cave, Cleveland Tracks 9 to 11: April 17, 1966 La Cave, Cleveland
Disc 4 Tracks Second Set (17/4/66) 1. Untitled / Truth Is Marching In (15:43) 2. Spirits (9:16) 3. Zion Hill (12:40) 4. Spirits (7:00) 5. Spiritual Bells (3:48) 6. [F# tune] (9:18)
Personnel Albert Ayler Quintet: Albert Ayler (tenor saxophone) Don Ayler (trumpet) Frank Wright (tenor saxophone) Michel Samson (violin) Mutawef Shaheed (bass) Ronald Shannon Jackson (drums)
Recording Details April 17, 1966 La Cave, Cleveland
Disc 5 Tracks 1. Concert announcement by Dietrich Schulz-Köhn (1:10) 2. Ghosts / Bells (11:15) 3. Truth Is Marching In (7:07) 4. Omega (3:48) 5. Our Prayer (Don Ayler) (4:39) 6. Spoken introduction by Peter de Wit (1:25) 7. Truth Is Marching In (11:14) 8. Bells (5:35) 9. Spirits Rejoice (10:51) 10. “Free Spiritual Music”, part IV (6:44)
Personnel Albert Ayler Quintet: Albert Ayler (tenor saxophone) Don Ayler (trumpet) Michel Samson (violin) Bill Folwell (bass) Beaver Harris (drums)
Recording Details Tracks 1 to 5: November 3, 1966 Berlin Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany Tracks 6 to 10: November 8, 1966 De Doelen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Disc 6 Tracks 1. Truth Is Marching In / Omega (9:00) 2. Japan / Universal Indians (traditional / Albert Ayler) (5:41) 3. Our Prayer (Don Ayler) (8:19)
Personnel Albert Ayler Quintet: Albert Ayler (tenor saxophone, soprano sax [track 3], alto sax [track 3], vocals [track 2]) Don Ayler (trumpet) Michel Samson (violin) Bill Folwell (bass) Milford Graves (drums)
Recording Details June 30 / July 1, 1967 Newport Jazz Festival, Freebody Park, Newport, Rhode Island
Tracks 4. Love Cry / Truth Is Marching In / Our Prayer (Albert Ayler / Don Ayler) (6:24)
Personnel Albert Ayler Quartet: Albert Ayler (tenor saxophone, vocals) Don Ayler (trumpet) Richard Davis (bass) Milford Graves (drums)
Recording Details July 21, 1967 St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, New York City (Recorded at the funeral of John Coltrane)
Tracks 5. Venus / Upper and Lower Egypt (Pharoah Sanders) (22:59)
Personnel Pharoah Sanders: Pharoah Sanders (tenor saxophone) Chris Capers (trumpet) Unknown (poss. Noah Howard) (alto saxophone) Albert Ayler (tenor saxophone) Unknown (tenor saxophone) Dave Burrell (piano) Sirone (bass) Roger Blank (drums)
Recording Details January 21, 1968 Renaissance Ballroom, New York City
Tracks 6. Untitled blues (6:04) 7. Untitled sermon (0:50) 8. Thank God for Women (Albert Ayler / Mary Parks) (10:16) 9. New Ghosts [demo fragments] (Albert Ayler / Mary Parks) (7:10)
Personnel Albert Ayler: Albert Ayler (tenor saxophone, vocal, solo recitation [track 7]) Call Cobbs (piano, Rocksichord) Bill Folwell (electric bass guitar) Bernard Purdie (drums) Mary Parks (vocal, prob. tambourine) Vivian Bostic (vocal)
Recording Details Late August, 1968 New York City area
Tracks 1. Prophet John (Don Ayler) (10:53) 2. Judge Ye Not (Don Ayler) (10:16)
Personnel Don Ayler Sextet: Don Ayler (trumpet) Albert Ayler (alto saxophone) Sam Rivers (tenor saxophone) Richard Johnson (piano) Richard Davis, Ibrahim Wahen (bass) Muhammad Ali (drums)
Recording Details January 11, 1969 Town Hall, New York City
Tracks 3. Mothers / Children (8:42) 4. Untitled [incomplete] (14:14) 5. Untitled [C minor] (5:21) 6. Untitled [F minor/C minor] (10:36)
Personnel Albert Ayler Quartet: Albert Ayler (tenor saxophone) Call Cobbs (piano) Steve Tintweiss (bass) Allen Blairman (drums) prob. Mary Maria (tambourine, hand-clapping)
Recording Details prob. July 28, 1970 La Colle sur Loup, Saint Paul de Vence, France
Disc 8 1. Albert Ayler interview with Birger Jørgensen for Afterbeat program (5:20) 2. Albert Ayler interview with Birger Jørgensen for Afterbeat program 3. Albert Ayler interview with Daniel Caux for France Culture 4. [Bonus item at the end of the Daniel Caux interview: a 1964 phone conversation between Paul Karting and Albert Ayler setting up Ayler’s appearances in Holland, including the radio broadcast which ended up as The Hilversum Session.]
Disc 9 1. Albert Ayler interview with Kiyoshi Koyama for Swing Journal 2. Don and Mocqui Cherry interview with Daniel Caux 3. [Bonus item at the end of the Don Cherry interview: ‘The Airport Tape’
Disc 10 [Bonus disc] Tracks 1. Tenderly (Gross / Lawrence) (4:32) 2. Leap Frog (Garland) (3:16)
Personnel U. S. Army 76th A. G. Band: Larry Drabik, ? Long, ? Holman (trumpets) John Pajak, Max Marable, Thomas Blagg (trombones) Willie Gordon (french horn) Albert Ayler, Leo Howard, Ralph Sgrillo, Robert Throne, ? Elseroad (saxophones) ? Cushman (piano) ? Babcock (guitar) ? Raines (bass) Tony Sarmento, Paul Tolar (drums)
Recording Details September 14, 1960 Rehearsal session
Release Details Released (5/10/04) as HOLY GHOST: rare & unissued recordings (1962 - 70) 9 CD Spirit Box on Revenant Records (USA) RVN 213. Disc 1, tracks 6 to 8 and Disc 2, tracks 1 to 3 previously released on Albert Smiles With Sunny In Respect (Germany) IR39501. Disc 1, tracks 6 to 8 and Disc 2, tracks 1 to 3 were subsequently released in December, 2015 on Bells & Prophecy: Expanded Edition ESP (USA) 4076. As well as the 9 CDs and the bonus CD, the box also contains the following: A 208 page, lavishly illustrated, hardback book containing essays by Val Wilmer, Amiri Baraka, Ben Young, Marc Chaloin, Daniel Caux and Carl Woideck, extensive information on CD tracks and sidemen, a section of eyewitness accounts, and a 16 page appendix entitled ‘Sightings’ which amounts to a complete chronological listing of Ayler’s musical career. A facsimile of the Paul Haines booklet which was included with the early copies of ‘Spiritual Unity’. A special digest version of The Cricket containing Ayler’s To Mr. Jones - I Had A Vision. A copy of a Slugs’ flier. A photo of Albert, aged 12. A copy of a note from Albert Ayler to Paul Karting. And a dead flower...
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Holy Ghost - Triple LP Set In March 2005 Revenant released a vinyl edition of selected tracks from the Holy Ghost box set - three LPs on clear vinyl, including a poster and postcard.
Tracks Side A: 1. [tune Q] (8:59) 2. [untitled] 3. D.C. (5:58) Side B: 1.[untitled minor waltz] (7:04) 2. Prophet/Ghosts/Spiritual Bells (14:33) Side C: 1. [F#Tune] 2. Ghosts/Bells (11:15) Side D: 1. Truth Is Marching In 2. "Free Spiritual Music", part IV (6:44) 3. Japan/Universal Indians (5:41) Side E: 1. Four (21:46) Side F: 1. Venus/Upper and Lower Egypt (22:59)
Release Details Released (31/3/05) as HOLY GHOST on Revenant Records REV 6011LP. |
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The Holy Ghost sampler CD Pre-release sampler CDs for the Holy Ghost box set were distributed for publicity purposes. Although not intended for retail, some of these sampler CDs will inevitably end up on ebay, so the details are listed here: Tracks 1. Truth Is Marching In [Germany, 1966] (7:10) [Disc 5, track 3] |
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In Concert In 2013 disc 5 of the Holy Ghost box set was issued as a download-only release by Jazz All Stars under the title, ‘In Concert’. *
Holy Ghost was nominated for 2 Grammy Awards in 2006: ‘Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package’ and ‘Best Historical Album’. Unfortunately it lost out to the Johnny Cash set, ‘The Legend’, for the former, and the ‘Complete Library Of Congress Recordings of Jelly Roll Morton’ for the latter. |
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Following a legal dispute with the Ayler Estate, the remaining copies of Holy Ghost were handed over to ESP.
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