About
compilation album by Albert Ayler
Release Date
January 1, 2004
Artist Origin
United States
Tracklist
Disc 1
- 1 Sonnymoon for Two 8:32
- 2 Summertime 6:56
- 3 On Green Dolphin Street 3:33
- 4 [spoken introduction by broadcast announcer and Borge Roger Henrichsen] 0:41
- 5 Four 21:50
- 6 Spirits (incomplete) 6:44
- 7 Saints 10:34
- 8 Ghosts (incomplete) 10:55
Disc 2
- 1 The Wizard 6:56
- 2 Children 9:04
- 3 Spirits (theme) 0:31
- 4 [spoken radio introduction] 0:55
- 5 Spirits 8:43
- 6 Vibrations 8:22
- 7 [tune Q] 8:58
- 8 Mothers 7:52
- 9 Children 8:38
- 10 Spirits (theme) 1:26
- 11 [untitled] 8:56
Disc 3
- 1 [spoken introduction] 1:02
- 2 Spirits Rejoice 4:39
- 3 D.C. 5:58
- 4 [untitled minor waltz] 7:03
- 5 Our Prayer 6:36
- 6 [spoken introduction] 1:12
- 7 [F# tune] 15:20
- 8 Ghosts 6:44
- 9 Spirits Rejoice 6:31
- 10 Prophet / Ghosts / Spiritual Bells 14:32
- 11 Our Prayer / Spirits Rejoice 9:42
Disc 4
- 1 [untitled] / Truth Is Marchin’ In 15:40
- 2 Spirits 9:23
- 3 Zion Hill 12:39
- 4 Spirits 7:00
- 5 Spiritual Bells 3:53
- 6 [F# tune] 9:17
Disc 5
- 1 [concert announcement] 1:09
- 2 Ghosts / Bells 11:15
- 3 Truth Is Marching In 7:07
- 4 Omega 3:48
- 5 Our Prayer 4:42
- 6 [spoken introduction] 1:25
- 7 Truth Is Marching In 11:13
- 8 Bells 5:34
- 9 Spirits Rejoice 10:51
- 10 [Free Spiritual Music, Part IV] 6:45
Disc 6
- 1 Truth Is Marching In / Omega 9:08
- 2 Japan / Universal Indians 5:45
- 3 Our Prayer 8:25
- 4 Love Cry / Truth Is Marching In / Our Prayer 6:26
- 5 Venus / Upper and Lower Egypt 23:04
- 6 [blues] 6:09
- 7 [sermon] 0:55
- 8 Thank God for Women 10:20
- 9 New Ghosts (demo fragments) 7:09
Disc 7
- 1 Prophet John 10:53
- 2 Judge Ye Not 10:19
- 3 Mothers / Children 8:41
- 4 [untitled] (incomplete) 14:18
- 5 [C minor] 5:21
- 6 [F minor / C minor] 10:38
Disc 8
- 1 [travel and plans] 1:50
- 2 [Holbaek] 0:38
- 3 [the New Blues] 1:33
- 4 [Christmastime stateside] 1:13
- 5 [a great change] 1:34
- 6 [traveling and Coltrane] 1:00
- 7 [drummers and Sunny Murray] 1:41
- 8 [a job to do] 1:06
- 9 [birth, family, first music] 3:08
- 10 [academy, the road, school] 0:57
- 11 [young professional and army] 5:39
- 12 [Sweden] 4:39
- 13 [New York] 0:48
- 14 [1964] 1:25
- 15 [frustration, sources] 3:39
- 16 [1966 tour and Coltrane] 3:15
- 17 [impulse! and Mary Maria] 3:26
- 18 [the artist’s life] 1:30
- 19 [question: LeRoi jones] 0:46
- 20 [question: “For John Coltrane”] 1:09
- 21 [question: socio‐political connections] 3:18
- 22 [question: instrumentation, engineering] 4:15
- 23 [choosing the players] 6:45
Disc 9
- 1 [current activity] 2:02
- 2 [Antibes] 1:06
- 3 [Japan / Coltrane’s funeral] 1:01
- 4 [clubs] 3:39
- 5 [ahead of my time] 1:41
- 6 [home Lives: Brooklyn and Cleveland] 1:27
- 7 [impulse!, part 1: Hippies] 1:20
- 8 [“Space Music”] 1:07
- 9 [Don] 0:45
- 10 [“Thank God for Women”] 0:46
- 11 [blues & rhythm] 1:17
- 12 [copying my records] 2:00
- 13 [impulse!, part 2: New Grass] 2:17
- 14 [tone and “vibration”] 1:07
- 15 [Rollins, Coleman and Coltrane] 4:08
- 16 [Maeght group] 0:56
- 17 [serenity of life] 0:36
- 18 [childhood memories, part 1] 1:59
- 19 (Blairman enters) 0:34
- 20 [early professional career] 1:02
- 21 [childhood memories, part 2] 1:08
- 22 [Don’s music] 3:46
- 23 [“I Love America” and youth] 1:05
- 24 [Mary and golf] 0:37
- 25 [early relationships and Mary Maria] 1:02
- 26 [Japan work and warm weather] 4:01
- 27 [play solo] 0:24
- 28 [naming tunes] 1:22
- 29 [Charles Ives] 0:25
- 30 [influences] 1:44
- 31 [practicing] 1:09
- 32 [The Healing Force] 0:51
- 33 [diet and America] 2:07
- 34 [defining “improvisation”] 0:44
- 35 [Sonny Rollins, reactions, and Miles Davis] 2:42
- 36 [Newport ’67] 2:29
- 37 [New York: keeping to oneself] (Mary Maria joins) 0:43
- 38 [Don and Mocqui Cherry interview with Daniel Caux] 22:11
Disc 10
- 1 Tenderly 4:36
- 2 Leap Frog 3:15
