Albert Ayler with Don Cherry - 1964 Recordings, First Visit Completed - 2 CD set

2024

FIRST VISIT OF THE COMPLETED ALBERT AYLER WITH DON CHERRY 1964 RECORDINGS WITH GARY PEACOCK & SUNNY MURRAY.

A long life can contain a certain amount of waste. Live long enough and posterity doesn’t notice the occasional unproductive gap. A short life adds value to every moment and every creative act. This new issue of Albert Ayler’s brief association with Don Cherry includes further material from their time in Copenhagen, a period when the saxophonist daily reinvented the themes that were coursing through his mind, breath and fingers. These are not a collector’s fetishes. These are fresh documents of a music mind working, day by day. (Brian Morton, June 26, 2024)

Albert Ayler tenor saxophone
Don Cherry cornet
Gary Peacock double bass
Sunny Murray drums

1–6 recorded September 3rd, 1964
Live at Club Montmartre, Copenhagen, Denmark
7–9 recorded September 10th, 1964 in Copenhagen, Denmark
10–15 recorded September 14, 1964 in Copenhagen, Denmark
16–21 recorded November 9, 1964 in Hilversum, The Netherlands

16–21 Hilversum recorded by Jan Schelling: Session originally produced for VARA Radio by Michiel de Ruyter and Aad Bos; Special thanks to Dick Lucas. CD-master by Michael Brändli, Hardstudios AG; Liner notes by Brian Morton; Cover photo by Ton van Wageningen; graphic concept by fuhrer vienna, Associate producer: Christian C. Dalucas;
Executive producer: Werner X. Uehlinger.