ALBERT AYLER

Albert Ayler: His Life and Music by Jeff Schwartz
(The very first time I went online, the first words I put in a search engine were ‘Albert Ayler’ and this is the only site that appeared.  I would not have been able to attempt the construction of this site without the Jeff Schwartz biography.)

Jason Zachariah`s Albert Ayler Web Site

Albert Ayler
(A German Albert Ayler site.)

Albert Ayler in the Downbeat Hall Of Fame
(Includes a brief biography, magazine article and photos.)

MUSICIANS

The following all appeared on record with Albert Ayler:.

Ronnie Gardiner
Sunny Murray
Henry Grimes
Gary Peacock
Don Cherry
John Tchicai
Roswell Rudd
Ronald Shannon Jackson
Alan Silva
Beaver Harris
Milford Graves
Bernard “Pretty” Purdie
Bobby Few
Henry Vestine
Allen Blairman
Steve Tintweiss

Then there are the three great innovators of Free Jazz with whom Ayler performed, but did not (officially) record:

Ornette Coleman
John Coltrane
Cecil Taylor

RECORD LABELS

AYLER RECORDS

ESP

HAT HUT RECORDS

IMPULSE (now part of the Verve Music Group)

I also lifted a few covers from these sites devoted to ESP and SHANDAR .

DIW

ODD AYLER SITES

Albert Ayler’s Jukebox     (US record label named after one of the more bizarre rumours about Albert Ayler’s death.)

Eye And Ear Control        (A Seattle shop which took its name from the Albert Ayler record.)

OTHER JAZZ SITES

Downbeat          Jazz Online          Jazz News          One Stop Jazz          GMN          All About Jazz

Red Hot Jazz (Early jazz site, including lots of RealAudio files - check out the Fess Williams section!)

European Free Improvisation Pages          J-A-ZZ          Cleanhead's Blues and Jazz Page

Improjazz (French magazine with an Ayler discography in the archives which contains additional information about unreleased recordings.)

Jazzmatazz (Jazz listings, reviews and an upcoming releases page)

The Jazz Discography by Tom Lord (100 years of jazz on one CD-ROM - all you need to know about virtually any jazz recording ever released)

New Jazz Improv (Portuguese jazz site.)          Jazz Discography Project          Jazz-Institut Darmstadt

Monastery Bulletin

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If you know of any other sites with some connection to Albert Ayler then please let me know.

I thought I might as well list my other sites here:

GEORGE HEATH, THE MOORLAND POET

ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN

THE TRANSFORMATIONALISTS

STUMP

THE EMPTY GRAVE OF EDGAR ALLAN POE

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