THE LAST ALBUM

Tracks

1.   Untitled Duet                                                        (4:32)

2.   Again Comes The Rising Of The Sun           (6:52)

3.   All Love                                                                 (8:59)

4.   Toiling                                                                   (5:06)

5.   Desert Blood                                                       (5:58)

6.   Birth Of Mirth                                                       (5:20)

7.   Water Music                                                         (6:10)

(All compositions by Mary Parks, Track 1 with Henry Vestine, Track 4 with Henry Vestine and Bill Folwell)

Personnel

Albert Ayler   (tenor saxophone,bagpipe chanter [track 1], vocals [track 5])

Henry Vestine   (electric guitar [tracks 1 and 4])

Bobby Few   (piano [not track 1]}

Bill Folwell   (bass and bass guitar [not track 1])

Stafford James   (bass [not track 1])

Muhammad Ali   (drums [not track 1])

Mary Maria (Parks)   (vocals [track 2 only])

Recording Details

Tracks 2 and 5:

August 26, 1969

Tracks 3, 4, 6 and 7:

August 27, 1969

Track 1:

August 29, 1969

Plaza Sound Studios, New York

Release Details

Released as The Last Album on Impulse AS9208, (Japan) SR3122. CD release on MCA MVCZ122.

From the sleevenotes

“Once a great jazz artist who achieved fame and has since passed on called Albert and said, and I quote: ‘You know, Albert, I recorded an album and found that I was playing just like you.’ Albert replied ‘No, man, don’t you see, you were playing like yourself, you were just feeling what I feel and were just crying out for spiritual unity.’”

Mary Maria / Mary Parks (from the sleevenotes of The Last Album)

(Two more titles were recorded during the session on 27th August, ‘Poetic Soul’ and ‘Joining Forces’. These have never been released.)

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