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Swing Low Sweet Spiritual

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[LP cover of Osmosis 4001
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[Box cover of The Early Albums Collection Enlightenment EN4CD9178.
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[LP cover of DIW-25011]

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[LP cover of Klimt Records MJJ319LP]

SWING LOW SWEET SPIRITUAL

 

Tracks

1. Going Home (4:23)

2. Old Man River (take 2) (5:29)

3. Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen (4:49)

4. When The Saints Go Marching In (4:29)

5. Swing Low Sweet Spiritual (4:30)

6. Deep River (4:15)

7. Old Man River (take 1) (3:59)

(All compositions traditional, except Kern & Hammerstein`s “Ol’ Man River”)

 

Personnel

Albert Ayler (tenor and soprano saxophones)

Call Cobbs Jr. (piano)

Henry Grimes (bass [not tracks 1 & 7])

Sunny Murray (drums [not tracks 1 & 7])

 

Recording Details

February 24, 1964

Atlantic Studios, New York

 

Release Details

Released as Swing Low Sweet Spiritual on Osmosis (Holland) 4001, DIW (Japan) 1021, 25011 and 314 (2003 CD release) and Klimt Records (France) MJJ319LP (2011 vinyl release). March 2020 saw the release of a 4 CD boxset: Albert Ayler: The Early Albums Collection on the Enlightenment label, EN4CD9178, which included a copy of Swing Low Sweet Spiritual. In June 2023 a vinyl version was released by Muzak (Japan) MZLP-1001 as Goin’ Home.

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[CD cover of Black Lion BLCD760197
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[Cover of Tokuma Records CD]

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[SHMCD MZCB1274.
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GOIN’ HOME

 

Tracks

1. Goin` Home (4:26)

2. Ol’ Man River (take 2) (5:25)

3. Down By The Riverside (take 6) (4:39)

4. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (take 3) (4:30)

5. Deep River (4:15)

6. When The Saints Go Marchin’ In (4:12)

7. Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen (4:44)

8. Ol’ Man River (take 1) (3:58)

9. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (take 1) (4:49)

10. Down By The Riverside (take 5) (4:28)

(All compositions traditional, except Kern & Hammerstein`s “Ol’ Man River”)

 

Personnel and recording details the same as ‘Swing Low Sweet Spiritual’

 

Released as Goin’ Home on Black Lion (Europe) BLCD760197 (1994 CD release), and on Tokuma Records (Japan). Japanese SHM-CD release (2013) MZCB1274.

 

From the sleevenotes

“The Danish Debut company originally failed to issue this part of the recording date but, with hindsight, it is not difficult to imagine why. In a jazz world honed to the technical cutting edge of saxophonists such as John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins, Ayler must have appeared as a primitive.”

Barry McRae (from the sleevenotes of the Black Lion release)

 

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