Albert Ayler: Stockholm, Berlin 1966

(HatHut)The writer Amiri Baraka described the scorching sax sound of Albert Ayler – the free-jazz saxophonist who died in 1970, aged 34, in New York's East River – as "like the singing from a black hole". But for all its stark expressionism, Ayler was blasting this spine-chilling noise across a familiar landscape of early-jazz street marches, spirituals and gospel. This album features remastered versions of tapes made in Berlin on this once-controversial artist's European tour of 1966, plus ...

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