COMPILATIONS AND SAMPLERS

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The compilation RE-EVALUATION: THE IMPULSE YEARS on Impulse AS-9257-2 contains the following tracks:

Holy Ghost (from LIVE IN GREENWICH VILLAGE: THE COMPLETE IMPULSE RECORDINGS)

For John Coltrane (from ALBERT AYLER IN GREENWICH VILLAGE)

Love Cry, Zion Hill and Universal Indians (from LOVE CRY)

New Ghosts and Sun Watcher  (from NEW GRASS)

Oh! Love Of Life and Drudgery (from MUSIC IS THE HEALING FORCE OF THE UNIVERSE)

Again Comes the Rising of the Sun and Water Music (from THE LAST ALBUM)

The compilation LA SAGA HEROIQUE D’ALBERT AYLER on Impulse AS-1024, Pathe (France) 2C.154-92336/7 contains the following tracks:

Holy Ghost (from LIVE IN GREENWICH VILLAGE: THE COMPLETE IMPULSE RECORDINGS)

For John Coltrane and Our Prayer  (from ALBERT AYLER IN GREENWICH VILLAGE)

Love Cry, Ghosts, Omega, Bells, Zion Hill and Universal Indians (from LOVE CRY)

Free At Last, New Generation and Message From Albert (from NEW GRASS)

Island Harvest and Drudgery (from MUSIC IS THE HEALING FORCE OF THE UNIVERSE)

The following tracks have appeared on compilations or record label samplers:

Goin’ Home and Down By The Riverside from GOIN’ HOME appear on BLACK LION CONNOISSEUR / LIONS ABROAD, VOL. 1: TENOR TITANS Black Lion 7620 (CD).

Ghosts (short version) from GHOSTS appeared  on Arista (USA) 1 (sampler)

Ghosts (long version) and Children from GHOSTS appeared on ORIGINAL JAZZ LEGENDS, VOL. 1 - TORRID TRUMPETERS 1201 Music 1001-2.

Holy Ghost which is currently available on  LIVE IN GREENWICH VILLAGE: THE COMPLETE IMPULSE RECORDINGS originally appeared on the compilation LP, THE NEW WAVE IN JAZZ, issued on Impulse (USA) A(S)-90, HMV (UK) CLP1932.
It was also included on  ENERGY ESSENTIALS ASD9228 and THE REVOLUTIONARY HYMNS ITM 1450(D) (double CD).

A short extract of Bells from BELLS appeared on ESP 1033 (sampler).

A 1 minute extract from SPIRITUAL UNITY appeared on ESP 1051 (sampler)

Spirits Rejoice from SPIRITS REJOICE appeared on  Base Records (Italy) ESP 1000-S (sampler LP) attached to the Italian magazine ‘Musica Jazz’ (April 1982).

Prophet from SPIRITS REJOICE appeared on THE WORLD OF JAZZ, on ZYX-Music (Germany) ZYX 11002-2.

Holy Family from SPIRITS REJOICE was issued on an ESP-disk 45 rpm single (ESP 4506), as the B side to Ornette Coleman’s ‘Sadness’ from Town Hall, 1962 (ESP 1006).

Ghost (1st variation) from LORRACH/PARIS 1966 appeared (in an edited version) on JOHN HANDY / ALBERT AYLER on  I Giganti del Jazz (Italy) GJ6 and GATO BARBIERI & DON CHERRY/ALBERT AYLER/JOHN HANDY QUINTET on Europa Jazz (Italy) 1006.

Change Has Come from ALBERT AYLER IN GREENWICH VILLAGE appeared on NO ENERGY CRISIS  Impulse AS9267-2, THE REVOLUTIONARY HYMNS ITM 1450(D) (double CD) and THE BEST OF MCA / IMPULSE: FIRE INTO MUSIC #3 MCA 8032, MCAD-8032 (CD).

Our Prayer from ALBERT AYLER IN GREENWICH VILLAGE appeared on DEAD AND GONE #1: Funeral Marches on Trikont (Germany).

Ghosts from LOVE CRY appeared on  THE SAXOPHONE ABC/Impulse ASH-9253-3 and THE DRUMS ABC/Impulse ASH 9272-3.

Love Cry (alternate take) from LOVE CRY appeared on IMPULSE! STORY, a sampler attached to the Italian magazine ‘Musica Jazz’ (April 1995).

Heart Love from NEW GRASS appeared on L’ HOMME BLESSÉ, a 12”, 45 rpm record on the French Claap Premiere label, featuring tracks from the soundtrack of the 1983 film directed by Patrice Chéreau.

Music is the Healing Force of the Universe from MUSIC IS THE HEALING FORCE OF THE UNIVERSE appeared on TRANSCENDENCE: IMPULSE IN THE SPIRITUAL GROOVE released in 1999 on Impulse! 12432.

(Review of The New Wave In Jazz)

(Review of La Saga Héroïque d’Albert Ayler)

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