Copenhagen Live 1964
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| Live album by Albert Ayler | ||||
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1964 |
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| Label (s) | HatHut Records | |||
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CD |
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Title (number) |
6th |
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43:35 |
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Bernhard "Benne" Vischer, Christian C. Dalucas, Werner X. Uehlinger |
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Location (s) |
Jazzhus Montmartre, Copenhagen |
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Copenhagen Live 1964 is a jazz album by Albert Ayler that was recorded on September 3, 1964 at the Jazzhus Montmartre in Copenhagen and was released by HatHut Records in April 2017 . The recordings were initially released as The Copenhagen Tapes (Ayler Records, 2002).
background
In June 1964 Albert Ayler performed with Gary Peacock (bass) and Sunny Murray (percussion) at the New York Club Cellar Cafe ( Prophecy ); a month later the album Spiritual Unity was created . A week later, the Ayler trio met Don Cherry (cornet), Roswell Rudd (trombone) and John Tchicai (alto saxophone) while recording a film soundtrack ( New York Eye and Ear Control ). In autumn Ayler went on a European tour with Cherry, Peacock and Sunny Murray, of which recordings from Copenhagen and Hilversum are available.
Track list
- Albert Ayler Quartet: Copenhagen Live 1964 (hatOLOGY 665)
- Spirits 8:45
- Vibration 8:14
- Saints 8:59
- Mothers 7:41
- Children 8:38
- Spirits 1:18
reception
Richard Brody wrote in The New Yorker that, after Cecil Taylor, Ayler was the great liberator who led the improvisation of harmonic backgrounds and the idea of musical pitch to pure sound. He did it with a deep foundation in church music of the Afro-American tradition, melodies of the simple spiritual mystery, with which he then penetrated into musical metaphysics . “Copenhagen Live 1964” is an extraordinary achievement by Ayler's Quartet in 1964. You experience “the epochal power of the revolution that they brought about - and that represented something like the end of jazz; more or less the entire jazz that arose as a result is post-apocalyptic or, as Sun Ras Band put it a few years later, After the End of the World ”.
Mark Corroto gave the album four (out of five) stars in All About Jazz , saying that Ayler's early career in Cleveland's R&B scene did not lay the foundation for his musical revolution. Perhaps it would be his time with the US Army in France and the subsequent move to Sweden that made his conversion easier. According to the author, he had become a kind of biblical Ezekiel , who had received a message from heaven. “When drummer Sunny Murray and pianist Cecil Taylor first heard the saxophonist in Europe, their skepticism quickly turned into belief. Its powerful sound, which legend says could break the ceiling, arrived fully sculpted. The fact that no one was ready for Ayler in 1962 begs the question, is it now? Today you can listen to the saxophonists John Dikeman and Mats Gustafsson , the modern descendants of the Ayler sound, and luckily hear some of the music he made in his short life. "
Regarding the recording at hand, Corroto said, “The noises of fire, a manna of the free jazz aficionados from heaven, are being lovingly remastered here, and Derek Taylor's comments give this session a historical context. The quartet begins with the now well-known piece 'Spirits', an acceleration of energy. Peacock's agility on bass is balanced by the grace with which he maintains the architecture of the music. While Ayler blows walls (and tradition), Cherry acts as his lieutenant, sometimes escorting Ayler before pushing him in new directions. Where [his] brother Don Ayler was bold, Cherry prefers a more subtle sound. The eeriness of 'Saints' is heightened by Murray's ghostly groans and his leaving the constant pulse for a fragmented sound. ”The author sums up this music as revolutionary and free. “But also realize that the prophet Albert Ayler was on earth to deliver this message, one that found followers in Master John Coltrane , then Gato Barbieri , David Murray , Paul Flaherty, and rock icon Thurston Moore . "
Colin Fleming wrote in JazzTimes : “Sometimes you don't know where to put your attention. Murray and Peacock are a marvel from a rhythm team that offers more counterpoint and color than rhythm and flow while never knowing which direction Cherry might be headed next. The guy is fast, faster and the fastest to formulate his ideas. Ayler has a full-bodied tone at times reminiscent of a mid-century tenor master like Sonny Rollins , but there is nothing more distant Rollins-like - or anyone-like - to his playing. That they work with New Orleans funeral music to complement the interstellar styling makes this set a rogue outfit that no other jazz band could match. "
Web links
- Listing of the album Copenhagen Live 1964 on Allmusic (English). Retrieved April 1, 2019.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Copenhagen Tapes at Ayler Records
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed April 6, 2019)
- ↑ Discographic information at Discogs
- ↑ Richard Brody: The Best Jazz Reissues and Rediscoveries of 2017. The New Yorker, December 14, 2017, accessed April 6, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Mark Corroto: Albert Ayler Quartet: Copenhagen Live 1964. All About Jazz, May 30, 2017, accessed April 6, 2019 .
- ↑ Colin Fleming: Albert Ayler Quartet: Copenhagen Live 1964. JazzTimes, October 2, 2017, accessed April 6, 2019 .