Albert Ayler - Blues (Ridiculous!)

[@emmanueljoly5575]

Whatever he plays, I'm always profoundly touched by Albert Ayler. An holistic awareness of the world he lived in. Best waves from France.

[@inkognito8400]

When I hear him play I cry!This is so pure and raw.He was naked when he played that shit.Gave so much, got so little

[@louisgardner5580]

Did he really play this in the nude?

[@inkognito8400]

@@louisgardner5580 No. It was just a really weird choice of words I made a long time ago haha

[@D.A.D.D.Y.]

@@inkognito8400 happens to the best of us

[@thomkeith1469]

Yes! This, man! YES!

[@Blackgeoff1]

I almost cried too.. Maybe he should've kept his pants on.

[@dahalofreeek]

He was so fucking great. Also when his tone shines through he has a sound that no one else ever had. It works over the changes and the rhythm somehow. Albert Ayler is a genius.

[@haroun4165]

Albert and his brother performed at Coltrane's funeral...it was unreal.

[@williamschletzer4516]

...and I believe that was also on the Holy Ghost box set

[@cosmicman621]

William Schletzer ...really ? I’d love to hear that.cheers

[@itsgonnbeok7249]

@@cosmicman621 its on youtube

[@ustwoalberts]

the notes he settles on ,for reference ,are all perfect notes in the blues chord sequence , : he knows exactly what he's doing . 20th century painters were very witty and adventurous too . No problem there .

[@kjones532]

Holy friggin' moly! His sound comes right straight of my confused, foolish, wicked friggin' stupid, broken heart. Lucky me. Love . . .

[@casares35]

Albert Ayler did not die. He ascended. Amen.

[@bruceonesix]

Albert Ayler understood, man. You get it 🙌🏻

[@charlywobershalek7142]

Albert would have turned only 80 today (July 13th). Many people have entered into the spotlight, with much ado, amassing riches, power and fame. And yet, Albert Ayler was a man who really made a difference. His being, music, spirituality and humanity were all one. He did not die, he just couldn't.

[@robertmbruno]

Amun , Nahh Praise the Aten .. haha , Nah . Did not die ? What , do you mean like Elvis ? Hey , I had never heard this cut . Ayler is terrific as ever though the cut has an auspicious opening . He does play in the cracks ,doesn't he ! it's was a dirty job but somebody had to do it. Thanks for uploading it. Bernard Purdie ? Isn't that special ! I wish Purdie and Ayler would have done this cut as a duo . ".. there are more things in heaven and earth , Horacio.. " ( Shakespeare)

[@lajavaantoine2796]

I usually appreciate and try to play more conventional jazz than this Kind of music. Fortunately it does not prevent me from discovering and really enjoying this stuff. Lots of energy upon the very fundamental harmony of the blues changes is quite a thrill. Those are great musicians, they don't get lost, I find here a real heavy groove and great excitement. Reminds me old Texan (tenor) sax honkers from the fifties in a way. Even a bit of Earl Bostic (sensational alto player for who knows) with more distorded sound. Just like Monk's music, it is highly respectful of Tradition. Thanks for posting !!

[@garrettzeff5729]

+Christophe Basille very apt observations

[@casares35]

+Christophe Basille Monk's style + Bostic's style = Coleman, but wait there's Albert knocking at the door. Unfortunately, he was never allowed to enter, and instead was found in the East River. Blues? Ridiculous? Over and out. P.S. Albert and Donal live in Berlin 1966. Lorrach. Infinity.

[@lajavaantoine2796]

+Garrett Zeff thanks to you !!

[@salamanca268]

Yes, they did get lost. You know, because at the time America was too busy in their national pastime of hating blacks, and showering those Beatles an Stones in riches and their daughters, to know who the hell was Albert Ayler till the other day. Had they appreciated him when he was alive, he may not have died in such tragic circumstances.

[@jerry_gordon]

His sounds is always making clear, "My name is Albert Ayler." Lovely stuff.

[@michaeldean9338]

If anyone has a signature sound, it's Ayler. That's for certain.

[@FatherRikhi]

this is stupendously rad.

[@MikeJones-wc4qj]

Yep its great...I dig all this Free Jazz...

[@christos571]

Holy shit, that dude could shred.

[@MegaZidzid]

love this, thanks extremely tense. Finish gives relief which is out-of-this world. Had to put it on loop for dozens times

[@eastweymouthchris]

Has anyone else listened to enough Ayler that this solo sounds fairly inside?

[@smallwonder4465]

It doesn't take long

[@ArthurRosch]

@@smallwonder4465 Oh yeah. This is the most conventional Ayler playing. Inside, indeed! I can only imagine audience response if this were in a club.

[@douglashott9843]

Absolutely. And delightfully.

[@Xavia_Dimoff]

@@ArthurRoschListen to “Down By the Riverside” (take 5)

[@can4ente]

I Love His Sound his playing

[@Garramedia]

Dear Fabio Copponi, you are absolutely right....And the more I hear Ayler the more I like it.....In the fifties the same thing happened to me listening to Monk, I tought it was ridiculous, I persevered and I was amply rewarded....Rare flowers of rare beauty.

[@Blackgeoff1]

I don't think it's fair to Monk to make that comparison

[@christiantorsell8119]

Happy birthday Albert!

This one is my favorite Piece with Albert Little memory TODAY EXACTLY 79 YEARS BEFORE was born ALBERT AYLER (July 13, 1936 - November 25, 1970)

[@bunchoftwigs4076]

This is Fantastic! Thank you for posting

[@mario7frankielee]

had a dream that he,rassahn kirk, jimmy hendrix,sun ra ,where playing on my funeral and bob dylan painted the whole scene and tom waits held the speech

[@syaoranoni54326]

My only regret is that I'll outlive them all.

[@asderc1]

That sounds like the best event in history

[@freddonahue6420]

In my dream I would add Charles Mingus to the awesome group of your dream!

[@GrumpyStormtrooper]

i want to get to this level of obsession for art and music to the point where i dream it

[@cosmicman621]

saucy risi ...well that is a beautiful vision ambition.....dream.. awake..same thang...your already there.Bright Moments..from Australia

[@a3081952]

Wow this is such an in your face track - I have the box set Holy Ghost yet never really "heard" this amongst all the wow material on the set. All I can say is that it is so gorgeous. So folks just buy the Holy Ghost set - it will remain with you forever. Just love this track!

[@williamschletzer4516]

I agree with you. I have the Holy Ghost box and hearing this track I feel like I am hearing it for the first time. I love this stuff where Albert is sort of going inside/outside. Of course I love the totally outside stuff too. But this track is great. Too many people I know who claim to be jazz fans don't get that jazz isn't polite background music, it is a musician exploring his imagination and heart and that can lead to some pretty impolite places.

[@scottbookman]

pure joy

[@commissariskassaar9164]

Truth is marching in!

[@jotabaran]

Maravilha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@melvinsmith2890]

This is a fantastic way of expressing the Blues as only Albert could've and maybe the Great Charles Tyler who never got his due

[@dhdeirdrehoran1]

Thank you for including all the musicians names.

[@maxcrowe3900]

I love this !

[@JeanFrancoisChoiseau]

excellent

[@wyndhl9465]

Albert effectively brings to attention the pain and suffering endured by the French Africans of New Orleans - and of their diasporic African offsprings the world over. 'Tis no game to be debated as to one's likes or dislikes (of the music). An egregious historical fact is being posited emotionally by Albert - for ALL to feel.

[@Blackgeoff1]

Was their suffering that bad? I mean, I knew it was bad, but shit ....

[@Tom-r1r]

who do you like.@@Blackgeoff1

[@nathanielwilson183]

So good.

[@fabiocopponi9586]

Well, one might say that what he plays is nonsense (as I have read), but instead I say that there is a lot of expression in what he does. He does play very nice "conventional" phrases, broken by powerful "non conventional" phrases. This is the beauty of Albert Ayler...one might not like him...but it is like saying that Rothko's and Pollock's art is nonsense....wrong, and to argument the opposite you must first know a lot about art and music.

[@nathanielwilson183]

Maybe this is the musical analogy to the writings of Edward Lear?

[@tomandaj1]

No more nonsensical than Coletrane in his later years. Just brilliant.

[@cosmobane6995]

I can't help but imagine congressmen arguing.

[@stephanefontaine5944]

the man who could kill protools

[@greggreggreggreggreggreggreg1]

How can you like this masterpiece!?

[@matthewgibbs5820]

Absolutely amazing. Folks that have only really encountered consumer music (pop music, or only anything JUST outside of pop music) might hear this and hear garbage, but they don't really get what music is all about anyway :) its about expression and feeling! And goddamn this has so much of that, and virtuoso playing. Nobody in this comment section could play like this.

[@tonybelobrajdic4483]

Agreeing totally

[@Blackgeoff1]

I can think of one person in this comment section that doesn't want to play like this anyway.

[@BillusTinnus]

So utterly base, and human, and at the same time so controversial and abstract, especially for the time the song was released. One of the greatest in his, very niche, genre. Chapeau. You can really hear him having an avant garde look at the french style of Jazz, which was also still very upcoming at the time. Much like Alexandre Stellio and Sam Castandet, Albert was defining himself, but also new sounds each day, and I like to think he was inspired by the abovementioned artists, since he had visited France several times for musical inspiration. Lastly, I just want to say that I'm making this all up and I have no idea what I'm talking about.

[@alcidesduartefalcao2577]

Wow, this is really cool.😎🎷

[@Blackgeoff1]

If this is cool, then we need a different word for Miles ...

[@GOOGLEGoogle-sn8pl]

Art Taylor said to a geust on a show he hosted on WKCR:You know,One man's Albert Ayler is another mans Kenny G and one mans Kenny G is another mans Albert Ayler.A remark that supplies much food for thought,don't you think?

[@williamschletzer4516]

Not really. To my ears Kenny G played to get rich and popular, Albert played to pour out his heart.

[@Blackgeoff1]

I'm sure Art knew what he meant, but I'm fucked if I do..

[@juanjosebernizgodia7517]

Drumming total wunderbar 🔥🔥🔥

[@Anthony-kv1rf]

Un poète aux prises au magma de la vie infernale!

[@sinapsessujas]

O sax do Ayler é inigualável.

[@michaelmagee9233]

Blows me Away!! --I can't believe what I'm hearing.

[@Blackgeoff1]

I couldn't believe it either .... but probably in a different way.

[@jimthompson606]

Listening to this will set you right!

[@Lawful_Rebel]

Yeah, right to the asylum.

[@princessbubblee699]

I was sold twenty seconds in.

[@Blackgeoff1]

You were sold? To whom and for how much?

[@MikeJones-wc4qj]

It Is Written...that Albert played in Walter Jacobs band..so I guess he knows what Blues Music is about?? These critics aren't well informed.

[@salamanca268]

Albert didn’t have to play with Little Walter to know the Blues, just being born BLACK in America was enough. Has Leroy Jones said in his play The Dutchman “ if Charlie Parker could have killed ten White men a day, he wouldn’t have had to play the Blues”

[@megisynynef2224]

I would have loved to hear him and Trane together.

[@ronnieparkerscott6223]

Albert Ayler... best sax player ever.

[@can4ente]

Expression without bounderies in the blues

[@Blackgeoff1]

You haven't heard many sax players, have you?

[@Markus_Breuss]

after came : Georg Adams, Peter Brötzmann, David Murray, Frank Lowe, James Carter, and, and.........

[@wyndhleodumegwu253]

James Carter, the totality of BC + AD + PC of "saxophonics" - not forgetting Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Archie Shepp who preceded JC in the creation of their adventurous field cries and dirges.

[@dbadagna]

John Gilmore was also influenced, and maybe also Charles Gayle.

[@mylungpuppy]

So good!

[@danielwozny-kozak8148]

AA alto! Yes, the real stuff of blues!

[@dariusmolark6820]

they were getting tired of black men pouring out their humanness through the saxophone. albert ayler was among the last to pierce through even this estimation,.in grandiose fashion yall

[@atulshah7043]

+Darius Molark interesting take on the evolution of free jazz

[@djjazzy53]

+Darius Molark Goddamn right!

[@Celedonio_Firpo]

GENIO FULL!!!!!!! MASTER STELLAR!

[@garybrame3119]

Reading "Holy Ghost" new Ayler bio recommended to anyone interested here. Had no idea this incredible stuff was on KZbin...

[@obastan]

Albert Ayler..........He is on it, I just got up on this.....

[@reujack]

Jeremiah Plays The Blues

[@udos.7611]

Der blanke Wahnsinn 👍🏽😎

[@романакилов-б8р]

Супер!!!

[@DIA4000]

god almighty sent him to tell us

[@johnhenson3060]

bless his heart

[@Eliet227]

Crazy WOW

[@emilianoturazzi]

he's on alto here

[@clarkwheeler4659]

thanks!

[@moshwangles]

+emilianoturazzi alto makes sense, I was thinking throughout that he could be playing soprano, but some of those timbres I don't hear from sopranos.

[@Blackgeoff1]

I thought it was just sped up to get it over with quicker..

[@kazrej]

My 11 year old guitar student just asked me what jazz music sounds like. I played her this, and she said that it sounds like a duck dying.

[@NoName-tq7qc]

Ha! That's what my cousin said too. But we both know that Ayler is ripping it!

[@rdrgplnz]

+SuperMaligan I would say beyond... beyond jazz.

[@SeerTrulth]

+Ryan Jerzak If we look at jazz or blues as a man saying his soul or his mood or his anger or his ecstasy, what judgement can we render on the content? This is communication. One doesn't have to relate; one can move on. What this and most music does is OPEN THE DOOR TO A VIEW OF THE LISTENER'S HEART.

[@kazrej]

I love Ayler. I was simply sharing the response of my 11 year old guitar student who had never heard such music before.

[@presleyvelvet618]

There's just something magical about the sound of a duck dying . . .

[@drbekken]

The Greatest.

[@neitherblack]

This is brilliant, not ridiculous.

[@Blackgeoff1]

I'm staying with ridiculous

[@ShadowSamba]

This is like a Blues version of Kerry King's solos

[@mizpahboy7513]

It's not enough to just want to be cool, you need to feel it. If you want to feel cool, look no further than your own back yard. Because if you don't feel it there, you never really was cool to begin with! dig it? ( Dorothy to the Tin Woodsman in The Wizard of Oz )

[@tonybelobrajdic4483]

Virtuoso

[@Blackgeoff1]

I heard no evidence of that.

[@nicklubran8914]

joy

[@elisavieira737]

❤ ❤ ❤

[@SteveCournane]

Is that Bernard Purdie on drums?

[@thomasmagee8692]

Steve Cournane very definitely yes.

[@vikingjanch]

ridiculously good indeed. what album is this on excepting the box set you mention which is too expensive for me to purchase

[@clarkwheeler4659]

+Ape Urson I don't know. Maybe no other album since it doesn't have a title.. You could try finding a way to download it. Thanks for listening.

[@matheuscontas]

rutracker

[@rileywilliams1568]

holy shit!!!!!

[@Blackgeoff1]

I'd call it unholoy shit.

[@Bugleur]

BLUES !!!

[@jiyujizai]

💚🙂🌳

[@naviduxan5176]

*Listen to the work of my brother FEELFOUND, he really needs support, he is trying. 💯*

[@malcolmlanemusic319]

He needs the straight - laced backing to contrast and rub up against.Its a pity the smoothe players today don t listen .I wish the bass and drums went off on one at the end!

[@torolego]

Читаю книгу "Кандидат в Будды", стало интересно кто такой.

[@fusionhar]

Can Albert play Kenny G. tunes?

[@Blackgeoff1]

Can he play tunes at all?

[@lazlowoodbine7916]

It was all going so well. Then something else happened.

[@난누구-h2d]

트럼펫..........태형아....

[@fusionhar]

Identified completely.........new, like Bieber

[@NumHeavymetallic]

I can’t understand for now

[@dgrjazz]

Keep listening and feeling and it will tell you what you need.

[@paulturner6334]

If you dont know,you dont know...he speaks unhura

[@СергейКосарев-щ4ъ]

Этот катер вышел на глиссер !!

[@donstuart452]

Did he miss a flat9 sharp11 on the 4th bar of the second chorus?

[@Blackgeoff1]

Maybe he missed a flat9 and sharp11, but he collided with something ...

[@Caligari...]

Albert Ayler is ......

[@donstuart452]

In the third chorus, fourth bar sounds like he played a flat 13th,sharp 11th, or did I miss hear it.

[@Blackgeoff1]

I think you misheard it. I heard a sharp 12th and a flat12th ...

[@D.A.D.D.Y.]

It's the notes he's not playing

[@Blackgeoff1]

should've been a lot more of them.

[@hikarisasaki8457]

skin

[@fusionhar]

RIDICULOUS IS 21ST. CENTURY MUSIC....INVERTED COMMS'

[@sorbitolmaltitolxylitolman3355]

You must acquire a taste for free form jazz

[@rasheedaljawar5315]

This hardly needs commenting upon,for one with ears.Pure esoteric bulletin! I likes millions know blues when we here them,and this wholly redundant display of the selfsame arpeggiated runs,horrible grates on one's nerves vibrato,lack of intonation,or actual proper tone speaks for itself. I've always loved how anyone who butchers music,honking,bleating,squealing,and squawking is instantly deemed a genius for the sake of tone deaf posers. You want to here musical brilliance? Listen to dexter gordon,trane,jackie mclean,clifford jordon,Gary bartz, pharaoh,roland kirk,bird,pepper adams,phil woods . PEACE POSERS!

[@rowane965]

ok

[@greggreggreggreggreggreggreg1]

Playing how Ayler plays is pretty difficult Rasheed. I could copy Parker but I can't copy Ayler. It's pretty cool and unique and gots its own sound. And Coltrane also squeeked and made sounds like this and he was crazy good and no one argues that.

[@Krisselbee]

An authentic self expression. Nice.

[@eliadesfonseca2221]

De ridículo,nada.canela fina.

[@RockyLikes]

Is this what metal sounds like to regular people?

[@rowane965]

what

[@Lawful_Rebel]

It's not complete nonsense, it has some structure (it's not free jazz). However, I could not listen to this type of 'music'. I think Eric Dolphy's 'Out To Lunch' album is about as 'out there' as I get.

[@Blackgeoff1]

I'd call it complete nonsense.... it doesn't say anything. I dig Dolphy, but I struggle with Out To Lunch.

[@boygeniuz]

just appalling from start to finish

[@itsgonnbeok7249]

I feel sorry for you

[@shakuhachipete]

Sorry Ayler fans, but it sounds like he doesn't know the right notes so he's playing ALL of them and is hoping to get lucky. Listen to Dexter or Sonny. They knew the right notes...and about the importance of space.

[@ebaylistentomusic]

I saw Dexter and Sonny many times, and I can hear plain as day how on point and on top of the changes Albert is here. Its there you just can't hear it.

[@Xavia_Dimoff]

Should we also listen to Coltrane?

[@mhclongboard]

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[@TallSomeone]

You know, I've nothing against searching and having a blast, but in many respects, that's all this is. In some moods we could call it nonsense. Do this at home, but show some respect when you want to be selling your work.

[@itsgonnbeok7249]

You are a complete ass

[@lewismass4320]

Please stop talking like you understand his work

[@jamieanderson7757]

Extremely simplistic and boring rhythm section - major mismatch with the soloist. Don't understand how anyone can enjoy this.

[@donnaclarkj3395]

obviously not a single commentator here has ever played an instrument. This is true terrible on every level apart from BS.

[@Xavia_Dimoff]

Yet he is respected by great jazz musicians. Almost as if your opinion is rooted in ignorance.

[@cliqzy9422]

This is fr so bad

[@rowane965]

fr get a new pair of ears