R.I.P. Don Ayler

R.I.P. Hope he wasn't too troubled in his later years.

RIP -- Don's "Our Prayer" is definitely a highlight of Albert Ayler's career. He really didn't do much after his brother died, did he? Is he on other people's records?

He put out a 3-record set of some 1981 live recordings, but supposedly it's been out of print for years. I think that's the only recording he ever did after his brother's death.

ok, yeah: http://www.ayler.org/albert/html/donayler.html
anybody heard this? good/bad, yay/nay?
it's true, those tracks on Holy Ghost with Don leading are pretty solid. Interesting about the unreleased LP on Baraka's label. Wonder if it'll see the light of day ever?

"Donald Ayler, a jazz trumpeter often lauded by critics and cognoscenti of free jazz"

That wsn't my impression.

:-(

I thought the stuff from the Holy Ghost box was the same stuff that was meant to be released on Baraka's label. What's interesting to me is that the same fanfare that opens "Prophet John" (one of the two pieces played) later turns up opening a Noah Howard/Frank Wright piece with another title. Can't remember which piece right now, but I mentioned it in my Wire piece on Howard awhile back.

oh yeah, you're right, that is the same stuff, i misread.

He was mad and couldn't play -- and still managed to contribute enormously to some of the greatest jazz recordings ever.

RIP Donald

Jesus, I assumed he'd been dead for years. He did indeed have mental problems. "The last time I saw Don, he was crazy," Sonny Sharrock assured me back in '91, while giving me an autograph, in between sets.

Anyway, RIP

RIP Don.

He put out a 3-record set of some 1981 live recordings, but supposedly it's been out of print for years

A fairly well known blog, now no longer fucntioning, upped it a while back. I have it. Is it fair game to post it as it's out of print? Not sure.

"The bebop tune" from In Florence has been in my head for the last week.