Albert Ayler
The Last Album (LP)
LabelImpulse!GenreJazz & Improvisation
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condition (record/cover): NM / VG+ (light ring wear)
Gatefold sleeve. Insert and obi included.
Material from Albert Ayler's 1969 sessions, issued by Impulse! after his death under a title that pulls no punches. Blues shuffles, rock rhythms, bagpipes - yes, bagpipes - and some of the rawest, most exposed saxophone of his late period. It is a strange and haunting record, assembled from a moment when Ayler was searching hard for new ground, and precisely that searching quality is what keeps revealing new corners decades on. Not the first Ayler album anyone should own, but for those already deep in the story, an indispensable and genuinely moving chapter. Japanese pressing, clean and quiet, which suits this fragile music well.
| A1 | Untitled Duet | 4:32 | |
| A2 | Again Comes The Rising Of The Sun | 6:52 | |
| A3 | All Love | 8:59 | |
| B1 | Toiling | 5:06 | |
| B2 | Desert Blood | 5:58 | |
| B3 | Birth Of Mirth | 5:20 | |
| B4 | Water Music | 6:10 |
- Stafford James
- Bass
- Bill Folwell
- Bass, Electric Bass [Fender Bass]
- Albert Ayler
- Chanter [Bagpipe Chanter], Tenor Saxophone, Vocals
- Woody Woodward Grafix
- Design
- Muhammad Ali
- Drums
- Henry Vestine
- Electric Guitar
- George Sawtelle
- Engineer
- Lorel Michel
- Illustration
- Bert Andrews
- Photography By
- Woody Woodward
- Photography By
- Bobby Few
- Piano
- Ed Michel
- Producer
- Mary Maria
- Vocals
