Live On The Riviera, by Albert Ayler

Live On The Riviera

by Albert Ayler

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1.	Music Is The Healing Force Of The Universe 07:47	buy track
2.	Birth Of Mirth 10:42	buy track
3.	Masonic Inborn 07:03	buy track
4.	Oh! Love Is Life 09:26	buy track
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When Ayler's band went through Customs in July 1970 on their way to play at a festival in France, keyboardist Call Cobbs got held back and arrived a day late. Minus the keyboards, the band played anyway. The music-making of the resulting ensemble is freer and more adventurous than on the quintet's following Maeght Foundation concerts. This unique document, Ayler's penultimate recording, thus brings him back to something close to the trio setting in which he first found fame on 1964's epochal Spiritual Unity (though, on Live on the Riviera, with Mary Maria adding occasional vocals and, once, another sax). Exactly four months later, Ayler's body would be found in the East River.

ESP-Disk's 50th Anniversary Remaster brings the seminal free-jazz saxophonist's last unfettered blast of expression back into print after several years out of the catalog.

Personnel:

Albert Ayler: tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, musette, vocal
Allen Blairman: drums
Steve Tintweiss: double bass
Mary Maria [Mary Parks]: vocal, soprano saxophone

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released March 15, 2005

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Tenor saxophonist Albert Ayler, one of the most controversial and polarizing musicians in the history of jazz, pioneered a new style of playing and became an icon of "free jazz." The playing of both Ayler and his band mates was of such great spontaneity and imagination that no two performances are remotely the same beyond their themes -- and their emotional intensity. ... more

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