My Name is Albert Ayler
edith head
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Be excited!
Be excited! 
edith head
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Be excited!
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of the (swedish) stores that usually buy DVDs from. Where can I find it? Where
did you get your copy m_dejean?
i thought this was going to get released in the theaters like the townes van zandt doc!
I don't think so. I heard about it a month ago or something like that. I haven't
seen a post about on any of the boards..
Looking forward to see this!
Shit, I was just listening to New Grass on the way into work today. I need to see this.
Personally, I wasn't as blown away as the critics. But a decent effort and worth seeing if you??re an Ayler fan.
No, not old. The film is from 2005, but apparently there hasn't been that many showings of it, and I don't think there is any DVD of it yet. I saw it at the CPH:DOX filmfestival in Copenhagen. Kasper Collin was there to introduce the film and answer questions afterwards.
As far as I remember he said that it had been shown at some festival in the US just prior to that, but I doubt that the distribution is really extensive. In reality it seems like it's a one-man venture from Kasper Collin, and I got the feeling that his funds were low, so the chance of a DVD release might be slim. People should write their local film festival arrangers and suggest it for their program.
Jspr -> They showed Brother Yusef on the same occasion. Just footage of 90-year old Yusef in his home, speaking, reading his poetry, playing his saxes and flutes. Very calm and spiritual, both man and film. Some might find it slow-moving and too pensive, but I liked it.
For Londoners or those passing thru- this is playing at the ICA April 18th, Q&A afterwards and then Four Tet on the decks at the bar. That bar is slick too....
Same ole' Same ole'
JOSEPHINE BAKER, etc....
Adding to the irony, one of the themes in the film is the contrast between the reverence he enjoyed while living and performing in Sweden and Denmark in the early sixties, and the lack of recognition he received upon returning to the US.
Coltrane got him signed to Impulse i '66, but his records didn't really sell and the r'n'b influence on the last two albums were probably a result of some degree of disillusion on his part. Unlike most of the hardline Ayler fans, I enjoy stuff like "New Grass", but I get the impression that the more free material - "energy music", as he called it - was where his heart was really at.
----See I don't know, I like "New Grass" too, as a dj it's hard not to, with Purdie and all. I think he knew they were two sides of the same coin, that the New Orleans style military bands that he came up in were just as weird and suitable for exploration as the "free"er stuff. It was more a product of fans and critics getting stuck on an aesthetic of authenticity,, similar to the way a lot of so called "Hip Hop purists" stuck on Paul C might not get E-40. I mean for instance Ayler did vocal jazz on things like "Oh Love of Life" other non-"crossover" records when it was pretty uncool to do vocal jazz among the purists.
At any rate as an artist, you gotta have range. Can't eat the same meal everyday. No matter how good...
I hear you, I totally agree. My point was only that some artists write manifestos, delineating what's cool and what's not. In the case of Ayler,, I don't think he did that, I think the fan-critics created a dogma about what "real jazz" was.. he was just playing.