Albert Ayler
Swing Low Sweet Spiritual (LP)
LabelOsmosis RecordsGenreJazz & Improvisation
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condition (record/cover): NM / EX
February 1964: Albert Ayler playing spirituals with Call Cobbs on piano, recorded the same season as the free breakthrough sessions - and the secret twin of that whole revolution. No screaming, no rupture, no polemics: just the deepest possible reading of "Swing Low Sweet Chariot" and other traditional material, with that immense tone carrying centuries of feeling on its back. Hear this and the free records side by side and the argument settles itself: it was always the same music, the same church, the same cry. Released on the Dutch Osmosis label, and quietly one of the most moving records the man ever made. Do not sleep on this one.
Release notes
Recorded at Atlantic Studios, New York City, February 24, 1964
| A1 | Going Home | 4:23 | |
| A2 | Old Man River, Take 2 | 5:29 | |
| A3 | Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen | 4:49 | |
| B1 | When The Saints Go Marching In | 4:29 | |
| B2 | Swing Low Sweet Spiritual | 4:30 | |
| B3 | Deep River | 4:15 | |
| B4 | Old Man River, Take 1 | 3:59 |
- Henry Grimes
- Bass
- Craig Johnson
- Coordinator [Production-coordination]
- Frans Beekman
- Design
- Sunny Murray
- Drums
- Phil Iehle
- Engineer [Recording]
- Paul Haines
- Liner Notes
- Raymond Ross
- Photography By
- Call Cobbs
- Piano
- George Coppens
- Producer
- Albert Ayler
- Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone
