Albert Ayler: His Life and Music

by Jeff Schwartz


 

This file may be freely distributed in electronic form. It may not be sold or
included in any kind of collection for which there is a charge, including
(but not limited to) subscription BBSs, shareware CD-ROMs, etc. All paper
publication rights are retained by Jeff Schwartz. I'm really sorry to put this
on here, but I just met someone who's marketing a commercial CD-ROM
made almost completely from stuff they found on the WWW and I don't
want anyone doing that with this book unless I get a cut, ok?

My main sourse for this material is the chapter on Albert Ayler in Valerie
Wilmer's As Serious As Your Life (London, 1977). This essay, based on
original interviews with Albert and Donald Ayler, their parents, and others
in their circle, is a pioneering work to which all Ayler students are
indebted; it has provided the basis for biographical and other information
used in Peter Niklas Wilson's Spirits Rejoice! (1996) as well as several
articles on the tenor saxophonist.

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank the following for their contributions to this project: John and Kitty Case,
Tosiyuki Nomato, John Gray of the Black Arts Research Center, Jeff Keith, Erik Raben, Ron L.
Anderson, Ray Whitehouse, David B. Robinson, Andrew Leachman, Myles Boisen, Dr.
William O. McLarney, Tony Gustafson, Cadence, Downbeat, Charlotte Delaforce at The Wire,
Kimako's Blues People, Logos, Retrospect Records, and Beat City in Santa Cruz, A-1 Record
Finders, Musician's Record Store, Record Surplus, and Rhino Records in L.A., The libraries of
UCLA, UCB, UCSC and BGSU, Sonet Records, Amiri Baraka, Paul Rinzler, Elaine Barkin,
my brother Jay, Tom Schnaidt, Wendell Reck, Airion Chantal, Le'a Kent, Paul Haines, Lee
Santa, and Val Wilmer.

Note

The format of this book was inspired largely by a number of oral histories, especially Nat
Shapiro and Nat Hentoff's Hear Me Talkin' to Ya. Like Hentoff and Shapiro, I have used
interview excerpts whenever possible to let my subjects speak for themselves.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: 1936-1963

Chapter 2: 1963-1964

Chapter 3: 1965-1966

Chapter 4: 1966-1967

Chapter 5: 1968-1970

Chapter 6: 1970

Appendix: Critical Responses to Albert Ayler's work in Downbeat
Magazine

Bibilography

Albert Ayler: His Life and Music

by Jeff Schwartz

This file may be freely distributed in electronic form. It may not be sold or
included in any kind of collection for which there is a charge, including
(but not limited to) subscription BBSs, shareware CD-ROMs, etc. All paper
publication rights are retained by Jeff Schwartz. I'm really sorry to put this
on here, but I just met someone who's marketing a commercial CD-ROM
made almost completely from stuff they found on the WWW and I don't
want anyone doing that with this book unless I get a cut, ok?

My main sourse for this material is the chapter on Albert Ayler in Valerie
Wilmer's As Serious As Your Life (London, 1977). This essay, based on
original interviews with Albert and Donald Ayler, their parents, and others
in their circle, is a pioneering work to which all Ayler students are
indebted; it has provided the basis for biographical and other information
used in Peter Niklas Wilson's Spirits Rejoice! (1996) as well as several
articles on the tenor saxophonist.

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank the following for their contributions to this project: John and Kitty Case,
Tosiyuki Nomato, John Gray of the Black Arts Research Center, Jeff Keith, Erik Raben, Ron L.
Anderson, Ray Whitehouse, David B. Robinson, Andrew Leachman, Myles Boisen, Dr.
William O. McLarney, Tony Gustafson, Cadence, Downbeat, Charlotte Delaforce at The Wire,
Kimako's Blues People, Logos, Retrospect Records, and Beat City in Santa Cruz, A-1 Record
Finders, Musician's Record Store, Record Surplus, and Rhino Records in L.A., The libraries of
UCLA, UCB, UCSC and BGSU, Sonet Records, Amiri Baraka, Paul Rinzler, Elaine Barkin,
my brother Jay, Tom Schnaidt, Wendell Reck, Airion Chantal, Le'a Kent, Paul Haines, Lee
Santa, and Val Wilmer.

Note

The format of this book was inspired largely by a number of oral histories, especially Nat
Shapiro and Nat Hentoff's Hear Me Talkin' to Ya. Like Hentoff and Shapiro, I have used
interview excerpts whenever possible to let my subjects speak for themselves.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: 1936-1963

Chapter 2: 1963-1964

Chapter 3: 1965-1966

Chapter 4: 1966-1967

Chapter 5: 1968-1970

Chapter 6: 1970

Appendix: Critical Responses to Albert Ayler's work in Downbeat
Magazine

Bibilography

 


Référence: http://www.gslis.utexas.edu/~jeffs/ayler.html