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ARTIST
AYLER QUARTET, ALBERT
TITLE
The Hilversum Session
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
OUR SWIMMER
CATALOG #
WELLE 109LP
WELLE 109LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
8/26/2022
Reissue, originally released in 1980. Our Swimmer presents the first official vinyl reissue of The Hilversum Session in over thirty years. Licensed from Hat Hut. Jazz iconoclast
Albert Ayler
took the experimental leanings of contemporaries like
John Coltrane
and
Ornette Coleman
as a starting point and then blasted them to stratospheric extremes, creating some of the most polarizing and brilliant music of the 20th Century. In particular, 1964 was a pivotal -- and well documented -- year in the free jazz artist's career. After returning to New York, Ayler assembled a brilliant group with
Sunny Murray
on drums and
Gary Peacock
on bass, recording
Spiritual Unity
(ESPDISK 1002CD/LP), Ayler's first record for the legendary ESP-Disk' label, that summer. Soon after that session, Ayler took his trio to Europe where they were joined by cornetist
Don Cherry
for a tour of The Netherlands, Sweden, and Denmark.
The Hilversum Session
is a live radio session recorded on November 9th, 1964. At that point the quartet was months into its European tour and the interplay is extraordinary. On classic Ayler compositions like "Spirits" and "Ghosts" the band absolutely rip, with a kind of intuition and connectivity rarely heard, creating some of the most untethered and undeniably powerful music in the history of free jazz.
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