Cargo Records

• FOCUS ON: Albert Ayler

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• Label: Revenant >>
• Genre: Jazz, World & Blues

Heard ABOUT more than heard. But thats all about to change...

Seeking nothing short of Truth in music, Albert Ayler became THE catalytic force in defining the sound of the tenor in Free Jazz, and was a heavy influence on John Coltranes later work.

By 1958, Albert Ayler and his horn had made some rounds: from boy prodigy to teenage member of Little Walters Blues Band, from "Little Bird" of Cleveland to featured US Army Band soloist. Then he resolutely set out to forget everything hed ever learned about how to properly play the sax so that he could really PLAY it -- unhinged, free from strictures of pitch and form, drawing on spirituals, folksong, marches, and other big whopping chunks of collective musical memory -- to channel symphonies to God out his horn.