Albert Ayler
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- Ghosts
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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
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Albert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Cleveland
- Place of death
- New York City
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- saxophone
- Record label
- ESP-Disk
- Official website
- www.ayler.org
- Image
- Albert Ayler (1967–68 photo portrait for ABC Impulse!).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1936-07-13
- date of death
- 1970-11-05
- manner of death
- Suicide
- cause of death
- drowning
- start of work period
- 1952-00-00
- Commons category
- Albert Ayler
- ethnic group
- African Americans
- name in native language
- Albert Ayler
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