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Holy Ghost: Rare & Unissued Recordings (1962–70)

Albert Ayler · 2004

622 min · 124 tracks · jazz

A sprawling collection of avant-garde jazz that captures Albert Ayler's radical spirit and spiritual intensity.

Tracklist

Best experienced from track one — press play and let it unfold.

Disc 1

  • 1 Sonnymoon for Two 8:32
  • 2 Summertime 6:56
  • 3 On Green Dolphin Street 3:33
  • 4 [spoken introduction by broadcast announcer and Borge Roger Henrichsen] 0:41
  • 5 Four 21:50
  • 6 Spirits (incomplete) 6:44
  • 7 Saints 10:34
  • 8 Ghosts (incomplete) 10:55

Disc 2

  • 1 The Wizard 6:56
  • 2 Children 9:04
  • 3 Spirits (theme) 0:31
  • 4 [spoken radio introduction] 0:55
  • 5 Spirits 8:43
  • 6 Vibrations 8:22
  • 7 [tune Q] 8:58
  • 8 Mothers 7:52
  • 9 Children 8:38
  • 10 Spirits (theme) 1:26
  • 11 [untitled] 8:56

Disc 3

  • 1 [spoken introduction] 1:02
  • 2 Spirits Rejoice 4:39
  • 3 D.C. 5:58
  • 4 [untitled minor waltz] 7:03
  • 5 Our Prayer 6:36
  • 6 [spoken introduction] 1:12
  • 7 [F# tune] 15:20
  • 8 Ghosts 6:44
  • 9 Spirits Rejoice 6:31
  • 10 Prophet / Ghosts / Spiritual Bells 14:32
  • 11 Our Prayer / Spirits Rejoice 9:42

Disc 4

  • 1 [untitled] / Truth Is Marchin’ In 15:40
  • 2 Spirits 9:23
  • 3 Zion Hill 12:39
  • 4 Spirits 7:00
  • 5 Spiritual Bells 3:53
  • 6 [F# tune] 9:17

Disc 5

  • 1 [concert announcement] 1:09
  • 2 Ghosts / Bells 11:15
  • 3 Truth Is Marching In 7:07
  • 4 Omega 3:48
  • 5 Our Prayer 4:42
  • 6 [spoken introduction] 1:25
  • 7 Truth Is Marching In 11:13
  • 8 Bells 5:34
  • 9 Spirits Rejoice 10:51
  • 10 [Free Spiritual Music, Part IV] 6:45

Disc 6

  • 1 Truth Is Marching In / Omega 9:08
  • 2 Japan / Universal Indians 5:45
  • 3 Our Prayer 8:25
  • 4 Love Cry / Truth Is Marching In / Our Prayer 6:26
  • 5 Venus / Upper and Lower Egypt 23:04
  • 6 [blues] 6:09
  • 7 [sermon] 0:55
  • 8 Thank God for Women 10:20
  • 9 New Ghosts (demo fragments) 7:09

Disc 7

  • 1 Prophet John 10:53
  • 2 Judge Ye Not 10:19
  • 3 Mothers / Children 8:41
  • 4 [untitled] (incomplete) 14:18
  • 5 [C minor] 5:21
  • 6 [F minor / C minor] 10:38

Disc 8

  • 1 [travel and plans] 1:50
  • 2 [Holbaek] 0:38
  • 3 [the New Blues] 1:33
  • 4 [Christmastime stateside] 1:13
  • 5 [a great change] 1:34
  • 6 [traveling and Coltrane] 1:00
  • 7 [drummers and Sunny Murray] 1:41
  • 8 [a job to do] 1:06
  • 9 [birth, family, first music] 3:08
  • 10 [academy, the road, school] 0:57
  • 11 [young professional and army] 5:39
  • 12 [Sweden] 4:39
  • 13 [New York] 0:48
  • 14 [1964] 1:25
  • 15 [frustration, sources] 3:39
  • 16 [1966 tour and Coltrane] 3:15
  • 17 [impulse! and Mary Maria] 3:26
  • 18 [the artist’s life] 1:30
  • 19 [question: LeRoi jones] 0:46
  • 20 [question: “For John Coltrane”] 1:09
  • 21 [question: socio‐political connections] 3:18
  • 22 [question: instrumentation, engineering] 4:15
  • 23 [choosing the players] 6:45

Disc 9

  • 1 [current activity] 2:02
  • 2 [Antibes] 1:06
  • 3 [Japan / Coltrane’s funeral] 1:01
  • 4 [clubs] 3:39
  • 5 [ahead of my time] 1:41
  • 6 [home Lives: Brooklyn and Cleveland] 1:27
  • 7 [impulse!, part 1: Hippies] 1:20
  • 8 [“Space Music”] 1:07
  • 9 [Don] 0:45
  • 10 [“Thank God for Women”] 0:46
  • 11 [blues & rhythm] 1:17
  • 12 [copying my records] 2:00
  • 13 [impulse!, part 2: New Grass] 2:17
  • 14 [tone and “vibration”] 1:07
  • 15 [Rollins, Coleman and Coltrane] 4:08
  • 16 [Maeght group] 0:56
  • 17 [serenity of life] 0:36
  • 18 [childhood memories, part 1] 1:59
  • 19 (Blairman enters) 0:34
  • 20 [early professional career] 1:02
  • 21 [childhood memories, part 2] 1:08
  • 22 [Don’s music] 3:46
  • 23 [“I Love America” and youth] 1:05
  • 24 [Mary and golf] 0:37
  • 25 [early relationships and Mary Maria] 1:02
  • 26 [Japan work and warm weather] 4:01
  • 27 [play solo] 0:24
  • 28 [naming tunes] 1:22
  • 29 [Charles Ives] 0:25
  • 30 [influences] 1:44
  • 31 [practicing] 1:09
  • 32 [The Healing Force] 0:51
  • 33 [diet and America] 2:07
  • 34 [defining “improvisation”] 0:44
  • 35 [Sonny Rollins, reactions, and Miles Davis] 2:42
  • 36 [Newport ’67] 2:29
  • 37 [New York: keeping to oneself] (Mary Maria joins) 0:43
  • 38 [Don and Mocqui Cherry interview with Daniel Caux] 22:11

Disc 10

  • 1 Tenderly 4:36
  • 2 Leap Frog 3:15

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