Albert Ayler
Live On The Riviera (CD)
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2025 stock When Albert Ayler's band went through Customs in July 1970 on their way to play at a festival in France, keyboardist Call Cobbs got held back and arrived a day late. Minus the keyboards, the band played anyway. The music-making of the resulting ensemble is freer and more adventurous than on the quintet's following Maeght Foundation concerts. This unique document, Ayler's penultimate recording, thus brings him back to something close to the trio setting in which he first found fame on 1964's epochal Spiritual Unity (though, on Live on the Riviera, with Mary Maria adding occasional vocals and, once, another sax). Exactly four months later, Ayler's body would be found in the East River.
ESP-Disk's 50th Anniversary Remaster brings the seminal free-jazz saxophonist's last unfettered blast of expression back into print after several years out of the catalog.
Format
Recorded July 25 1970 at the Maeght Foundation in St. Paul de Vence
50th Anniversary Remastered Edition 1963-2013
Release notes
Recorded July 25 1970 at the Maeght Foundation in St. Paul de Vence 50th Anniversary Remastered Edition 1963-2013
| 1 | Music Is The Healing Force Of The Universe | 7:47 | |
| 2 | Birth Of Mirth | 10:38 | |
| 3 | Masonic Inborn | 7:18 | |
| 4 | Oh! Love Of Life | 9:31 | |
| 5 | Island Harvest | 5:01 | |
| 6 | Heart Love | 5:24 | |
| 7 | Ghosts | 10:53 |
- Steve Tintweiss
- Double Bass, Liner Notes
- Allen Blairman
- Drums
- Jonathan Granoff
- Layout
- Harald Dayot
- Photography By [Cover Photo]
- Raymond Ross
- Photography By [Tray Card Photo]
- Michael D. Anderson
- Remastered By
- Albert Ayler
- Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Musette, Vocals
- Mary Maria
- Vocals, Soprano Saxophone
