Albert Ayler's saxophone sound was raw and unfettered. Ayler's life, like his sound, was the personification of the blues. Sorrowful and excitable, both mournful and full of life, Ayler's sound was ...

Even more than 50 years on, there's still never been anyone quite like Albert Ayler. Or for that matter like this 1964 Quartet, which was one of the few ensembles during his career to match the tenor ...

Few record labels have been as committed to preserving and championing the legacy of saxophonist and musical visionary Albert Ayler as the Swiss label Hatology (née Hat Hut). Since releasing a ...

Philippe Gras / Courtesy of the artist A tenor saxophone hops over an interval like it’s a turnstile. And for a moment, the energy alight from two hours of hard-blown, soul-cleansing music seems on ...

“The words heretic, charlatan, genius, and visionary were all used to describe him,” Koloda writes, capturing the tightrope Ayler walked between brilliance and breakdown. Some believed he was mentally ...

Albert Ayler was—wince if you say it— a minor musician. Not bad, not unoriginal, not incapable of interesting or worthwhile work, not by a long shot. Advanced: definitely. Influential: indisputably. A ...

The music of Albert Ayler—who died in 1970, at the age of thirty-four—is the ne plus ultra of jazz. He did for music what Jackson Pollock did for painting and, like Pollock, he didn’t live long enough ...

Albert Ayler performing under a geodesic dome on July 25, 1970. Revelations contains the full recordings from the saxophonist's two-night stint at Fondation Maeght outside Nice, France. A tenor ...