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ARTIST
AYLER TRIO, ALBERT
TITLE
Spiritual Unity
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
ESP-DISK
CATALOG #
ESPDISK 1002CD
ESPDISK 1002CD
GENRE
JAZZ
RELEASE DATE
2/28/2005
2020 repress; expanded reissue.
Spiritual Unity
, recorded on July 10, 1964, is the album that made
Albert Ayler
and ESP-Disk' famous (or, in some people's eyes/ears, infamous). Mr. Ayler had already recorded in Europe and, in February '64, in New York, but this was the first album on which neither he nor his collaborators held back. It was also ESP's first jazz recording.
Spiritual Unity
presented a new improvisation paradigm: looser structure, less regard for standard pitch, and no obligation to present a regular beat. Ayler's sound was unprecedented, much rawer than any other jazz of the time. Sometimes it was expressed in squalls of untempered sound, sometimes in outbursts of poignant spontaneous melody. Meanwhile, under and around the leader's unfettered self-expressions, bassist
Gary Peacock
and drummer
Sunny Murray
reinvented the roles of their instruments. This
50th Anniversary Expanded Edition
includes as a bonus the track briefly substituted for "Spirits" on an early vinyl edition. It is the same tune known as "Vibrations" on the album of that title on Arista/Freedom (aka
Ghosts
when issued on Debut) and as "[tune Q]2" on the Revenant box set
Holy Ghost
. This is the first time both "Spirits" and "Vibrations" have been on an ESP edition of
Spiritual Unity
.
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