In his engaging Coltrane: The Story Of A Sound (Faber and Faber, 2007), author Ben Ratliff quotes something the Boston-born poet Robert Lowell said during an interview with the British literary critic ...

he Ohio-born tenor saxophonist Albert Ayler probably would have gotten a kick out of Kasper Collin's documentary about his life, “My Name Is Albert Ayler," which opens today at the Anthology Film ...

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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 ...