Albert Ayler - In Greenwich Village (180g Vinyl)

Albert Ayler - In Greenwich Village (180g Vinyl)Limited vinyl LP repressing of this 1967 album. Albert Ayler In Greenwich Village is Ayler's first Impulse set. There are two selections apiece from a pair of live appearances with Ayler having a rare outing on alto on the emotional "For John Coltrane" and the more violent "Change Has Come" while backed by cellist Joel Friedman, both Alan Silva and Bill Folwell on basses and drummer Beaver Harris. The other set features trumpeter Donald Ayler,

originally released in 1997

the album is American beauty

That’s why original copies command ridiculous sums

bloozy straight-ahead rock

Who were these men and how on earth was this not some unearthed archived footage from the ‘60s or ‘70s

art rock and black classical

In late 2020 and 2021

but also because Eno’s original tapes were long considered lost

can only rid itself of blindness

Although Finlander Jonna Karanka has been slowly leaking out little Kuupuu jewels for six years now

and Handsome Dick Manitoba released the Dictators’ debut Go Girl Crazy

Lightning Bolt play with abandon that is unmatched and remarkably undiluted and this album is just one more example of that raw power and sound