Boxset / Compilation · 2025
Tracklist
1. Spirits 07:29
2. Wizard 08:22
3. Ghost 1st Variation 10:53
4. Prophecy 06:42
5. Ghost 2nd Variation 07:05
6. Saints 10:15
7. Ghosts 10:11
8. Wizard 06:14
9. Children 08:46
10. Spirits (theme) 00:33
Line-up/Musicians
Albert Ayler - tenor saxophone
Gary Peackock - double bass
Sunny Murray - drums
About this release
ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd - ezz-thetics 109 (Switzerland)
Recorded live at the "Cellar Cafe" New York City, June 14th, 1964.
The music from this session first saw the light of day on the ESP-Disk release, Prophecy, issued in 1975, five years after Ayler's death. The label had long possessed a reputation for unscrupulous dealings with its musicians and had, according to Sunny Murray, who played on the date, released the album without authorization from the Ayler estate. Murray also had tapes of the concert which he claimed both to consist of better sound and to have been recorded at the proper speed. He arranged a release of the material, which includes additional tracks and alternative takes, on the two-disc set Albert Smiles with Sunny (inRespect). Via an agreement with Ayler's daughter, Desiree Ayler-Fellows, we can now hear the remastered concert recording on one CD, with one alternative take less, and judge for ourselves.
Thanks to snobb for the addition
