Even more than 50 years on, there's still never been anyone quite like Albert Ayler. Or for that matter like this 1964 Quartet, which was one of the few ensembles during his career to match the tenor ...

Albert Ayler's saxophone sound was raw and unfettered. Ayler's life, like his sound, was the personification of the blues. Sorrowful and excitable, both mournful and full of life, Ayler's sound was ...

Few record labels have been as committed to preserving and championing the legacy of saxophonist and musical visionary Albert Ayler as the Swiss label Hatology (née Hat Hut). Since releasing a ...

Albert Ayler performing under a geodesic dome on July 25, 1970. Revelations contains the full recordings from the saxophonist's two-night stint at Fondation Maeght outside Nice, France. A tenor ...

A noteworthy and remarkable portrait of innovative jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler (1936-1970), highlighted by clips of recently discovered concert-performance footage of Ayler with his band. The ...

"Gone but not forgotten" was the headline, 10 years ago, on a newspaper story about saxophonist Albert Ayler, the controversial free-jazz pioneer from Cleveland whose fame had only grown since his ...

Some people can’t get enough Christmas music, but others can’t run away from it fast enough. For more than ten years, Chicago free-jazz veteran Mars Williams (born in Elmhurst in 1955) has been ...

Here is tQ's half year non-studio album list as voted for by Luke Turner, Laurie Tuffrey, Sophie Coletta and John Doran (who compiled and wrote the feature) Annette Peacock is a stone cold original - ...

Philippe Gras / Courtesy of the artist A tenor saxophone hops over an interval like it’s a turnstile. And for a moment, the energy alight from two hours of hard-blown, soul-cleansing music seems on ...