Title:

In Greenwich Village

Artist: Albert Ayler
Release: 2023
Albert Ayler

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INFORMATIONS

Artist

Albert Ayler

Label

Superior Viaduct

Release Date

2023

Catalog

SV136

Additional information

Weight 0,280 kg
Format

USLP

State

Artist

Albert Ayler

Label

Superior Viaduct

Release Date

2023

Catalog

SV136

Description

Albert Ayler in Greenwich Village is a 1967 live album by American saxophonist Albert Ayler. It was his first album for Impulse! Records, and is generally regarded as being his best for the label.

At the urging of John Coltrane, Impulse! Records’ first recordings of Ayler were made live. A single track recorded at the Village Gate in 1965 was released on the album The New Wave in Jazz and Albert Ayler in Greenwich Village was recorded at the Village Vanguard and Village Theatre, New York City in 1966 and 1967. Unusually, Ayler plays alto rather than his more usual tenor on the opening track, a tribute to Coltrane, who was present when the two tracks on side two of the album were recorded. The two versions of Ayler’s band heard on the record both feature two bass players, which “sharpens the sound considerably, producing a rock-solid foundation for Ayler’s raw witness”.

Superior Viaduct – 2023