1975 US re-issue on Arista/Freedom with different title and cover of the 1964 album originally titled Spirits featuring Henry Grimes and Sunny Murray. With original innersleeve.
condition (record/cover): NM / NM
With original innersleeve.
Albert Ayler's first great statement recorded in America: New York, February 1964, with Norman Howard's trumpet as the perfect foil and Sunny Murray redefining from scratch what drums can do behind a saxophonist. "Witches and Devils" and "Holy Holy" are cornerstones of the new music - dark, ritualistic, overwhelming in their emotional directness. Nobody before or since has made the tenor saxophone weep and roar in the same breath like this. The Arista Freedom edition is the one most collectors grew up with, and the one that put this music in the racks worldwide in the seventies. If your free jazz section has a foundation stone, it looks a lot like this record.
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