This history of jazz is more a primer on how to listen to it Nov 22, 2009
They write that free-jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler died, a suicide, at thirty-four. Really. (Boston Globe)
Rashied Ali, 76; drummer worked with John Coltrane Aug 16, 2009
Over more than four decades, he performed with artists including Don Cherry, Albert Ayler, Alice Coltrane, and Archie Shepp. In recent years he formed The Rashied Ali Quintet, and this year he released a Live In Europe album with the group. (Boston Globe)
Futility music Jul 18, 2009
But not many military interrogators listen to Schoenberg or Stockhausen or, for that matter, to Cecil Taylor or Albert Ayler. The use of metal and rap, it turns out, mainly reflects the soldiers taste. (Harper's Magazine)
11 Things: Spooky Bay Jun 25, 2009
He's scary good and still with us: Once-Bay Area tenor sax god Pharoah Sanders has snatched praise from giants like John Coltrane and Albert Ayler, who eerily described himself as the Holy Ghost to Trane's Father and Sanders' Son. (Pharaoh Sanders plays at 8 and 10 p.m. today-Sat. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Festival features 'left of center' performers Jun 20, 2009
The late avant-garde saxophonist Albert Ayler set one of his poems to music, and singer Cassandra Wilson recorded the tune he wrote with saxophonist David Murray, "Sacred Ground." At Yoshi's, Reed will serve up poems inspired by Billy Strayhorn's music and lyrics. The band, which includes pianist Mary Watkins and flutist Roger Glenn, will play Strayhorn's "Take the A-Train" and the languid ballad "Daydream," while the poet recites lines inspired by the elfin genius known as Duke Ellington's... (San Francisco Chronicle)
A Passage to India Feb 23, 2009
Jazz players, such as Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, and Albert Ayler, had gone about it by varying intonation, blowing multiphonics (two or more notes at the same time), or squawking in the upper register, where pitches are imprecisely defined. Gopalnath does none of that. (New Yorker)
