LOVE CRY

Tracks

1.   Love Cry                                                   (3:54)

2.   Ghosts                                                      (2:45)

3.   Omega                                                       (3:14)

4.   Dancing Flowers                                    (2:19)

5.   Bells                                                           (3:07)

6.   Love Flower                                             (3:30)

7.   Love Cry II                                                (7:13)

8.   Zion Hill (alternate take)                          (4:13)

9.   Universal Indians (alternate take)        (7:35)

10. Zion Hill                                                     (6:06)

11. Universal Indians                                   (9:49)

(All compositions by Albert Ayler)

Personnel

Albert Ayler   (tenor saxophone, alto saxophone (tracks 1 and 10), vocals (tracks 1, 9 and 11)

Donald Ayler   (trumpet [on tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11])

Call Cobbs   (harpsichord [on tracks 3, 4, 6 ,8, 10])

Alan Silva   (bass)

Milford Graves   (drums)

Recording Details

Tracks 1 to 6:

August 31, 1967

Tracks 7 to 11:

February 13, 1968

Capitol Studios, New York

Release Details

Tracks 1 to 6, 10 and 11 released as Love Cry on Impulse A(S)-9165, GRD-108 (CD) and (Japan) IMP88072, YP8549

All tracks released on the CD version of Love Cry on Impulse GRD-108 (CD) and Impulse GRP 11082.

Tracks 2, 6 and 10 released as an EP which was attached to a booklet published in Italy by Fratelli Fabbri Editore. Pictures of the EP sleeve and the booklet are below.

From the sleevenotes

“Referring, for instance, to Coltrane’s Meditations recording with Pharoah Sanders, Albert remarked: ‘The father, son, and holy ghost. What Coltrane was talking about there - maybe it was a biblical term: he was the father, Pharoah was the son, and I was the holy ghost. And only he could tell me things like that’”

Frank Kofsky (from the sleevenotes of Love Cry)

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