50 great moments in jazz: The shortlived cry of Albert Ayler

Appreciation of the saxophonist's work came just a few years after his untimely death in 1970They called him "Bicycle Horn" for his wild, atonal sound back in his hometown of Cleveland in the 1950s. In an era in which a good deal of jazz was getting quieter and smoother, the other-worldly Albert Ayler was focusing obsessively on a contemporary vision of the long-gone ragged polyphonies, street-marches, gospel songs and spirituals of African-American music's earliest manifestations.Sharing Thelon...

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