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Albert Ayler

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American jazz saxophonist (1936–1970)

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1936-07-13
Active to
1970-11-25

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Albert Ayler (born July 13th, 1936 in Cleveland Heights, Ohio – New York City, November 1970) was the most primal of the free jazz musicians of the 1960s. He possessed a deep blistering tone—achieved by using the stiffest plastic reeds he could find on his tenor saxophone—and a broad, pathos-filled vibrato that came right out of church music. His trio and quartet records of 1964, like 'Spiritual Unity' and 'The Hilversum Sessions', show him <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Albert+Ayler">Read m

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