LOVE CRY
Tracks
1. Love Cry (3:54)
2. Ghosts (2:45)
3. Omega (3:14)
4. Dancing Flowers (2:19)
5. Bells (3:07)
6. Love Flower (3:30)
7. Love Cry II (7:13)
8. Zion Hill (alternate take) (4:13)
9. Universal Indians (alternate take) (7:35)
10. Zion Hill (6:06)
11. Universal Indians (9:49)
(All compositions by Albert Ayler)
Personnel
Albert Ayler (tenor saxophone, alto saxophone (tracks 1 and 10), vocals (tracks 1, 9 and 11)
Donald Ayler (trumpet [on tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11])
Call Cobbs (harpsichord [on tracks 3, 4, 6 ,8, 10])
Alan Silva (bass)
Milford Graves (drums)
Recording Details
Tracks 1 to 6:
August 31, 1967
Tracks 7 to 11:
February 13, 1968
Capitol Studios, New York
Release Details
Tracks 1 to 6, 10 and 11 released as Love Cry on Impulse (US) A(S)-9165, GRD-108 (CD) and (Japan) IMP88072, YP8549. Cassette version Impulse (France) C 244-92.953. In June, 2020, a vinyl version was released as No. 39 in Hachette’s ‘Masterpieces’ series (Italy) I Capolavori Del Jazz In Vinile - 39: Impulse A-9165, with an 8 page booklet. All tracks released on the CD version of Love Cry on Impulse GRD-108 (CD) and Impulse GRP 11082. In July 2011 all tracks released on a CD twinned with The Last Album, Impulse (US) 06007 5334699. On 8 February, 2021, Universal (Japan) SHM-CD UNIJ 1408810 released as part of the 60th Anniversary of Impulse! Records. Tracks 2, 6 and 10 released as an EP which was attached to a booklet published in Italy by Fratelli Fabbri Editori in 1969 (see below). In 2024 Hat Hut Records released In Greenwich Village to Love Cry Revisited Hat Hut (Switzerland) ezz-thetics 1171.
From the sleevenotes
“Referring, for instance, to Coltrane’s Meditations recording with Pharoah Sanders, Albert remarked: ‘The father, son, and holy ghost. What Coltrane was talking about there - maybe it was a biblical term: he was the father, Pharoah was the son, and I was the holy ghost. And only he could tell me things like that’”
Frank Kofsky (from the sleevenotes of Love Cry)
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IL JAZZ: 67 - Albert Ayler, Fratelli Fabbri Editori (Italy), 1969.
This 17 page booklet (with an EP of three tracks from Love Cry: Ghosts, Love Flower and Zion Hill) was published by Fratelli Fabbri Editori (Italy) in 1969 with text by Franco Fayenz and a music guide by Bruno Schiozzi. Click the cover picture below for a (grayscale) copy of the booklet.
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