Holy Ghost

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630814021320 has discid pjmbehO.HdLjNETF9mCywEs8lGo-
Recording Date: 1960/09/14
Recording Location: Orléans, France
Additional:
This is the bonus cd of the Revenant box set, that contains a very early recording of Ayler featuring in the... U.S. Army Band!
Printed on the cd, one can see "U.S. Army 76th AG Band Rehearsal", whatever that means :).

The complete rehearsal should contain 12 tracks, only featuring Ayler on two of them (confirm this?)
Personnel is reported as:
Larry Drabik, ? Long, ? Holman (trumpets)
John Pajak, Max Marable, Thomas Blagg (trombones)
Willie Gordon (french horn)
Albert Ayler, Leo Howard, Ralph Sgrillo, Robert Throne, ? Elseroad (saxophones)
? Cushman (piano)
? Babcock (guitar)
? Raines (bass)
Tony Sarmento, Paul Tolar (drums)
Though it's not clear on what tunes they perform.

This obviously is only of interest for deranged completists :-)

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630814021320 has discid DKenx7eNWVeBjfhJDqSGaJyfhXk-
Recording Locations:
#1-#3, Helsinki, Finland
#4-#5, Copenhagen, Denmark
#6-#8, Cellar Café, NYC, USA
Recording Dates:
#1-#3, 1962/06/30
#4-#5, 1962/11/16
#6-#8, 1964/06/14
Additional:
This box set contains a bunch of long-lost/unreleased/unavailable material recorded by Albert Ayler, along with an impressive amount of informations and... a dead flower.
Packaged in a huge (some say ugly) plastic box, a great deal of care has been put both in the remastering work and in the packaging.
A definitive must for Ayler's fans and exigent discographers.

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630814021320 has discid cId4CPdalV.p50x7HxhkWaqUbrM-
Recording Locations:
#1-#3, Cellar Café, NYC, USA
#4-#10, Café Montmartre, Copenhagen, Denmark
#11, Slug's, NYC, USA
Recording Dates:
#1-#3, 1964/06/14
#4-#10, 1964/09/03
#11, 1966/02
Notes:
"tune Q" was regularly mistitled as Saints and/or Spirits. This indeed is the same composition that appeared on the first edition of ESP 1002 (Spiritual Unity), and is different from the one on the second edition of ESP 1002.
#1 should not be confused with "Wizard". This one is the same composition as on ESP 1002.

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630814021320 has discid wR48JmGXFte2dnlv5GvbKZ2bsiQ-
Recording Location: La Cave, Cleveland, USA
Recording Dates:
#1-#8, 1966/04/16
#9-#11, 1966/04/17
Additionnal:
The session from April 16th consists of two different sets (#1-#5, #6-#8).
So the session from 17th, which second set is in next disc.

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630814021320 has discid q9F6WYdL.JQNcWUNYvimEBG8qYo-
Recording Location: La Cave, Cleveland, USA
Recording Date: 1966/04/17
Additionnal:
Second set of the 17th April gig. Frank Wright jumps in.

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630814021320 has discid PxRXIv_WgINIQe1gnZeqHM2DMF0-
Recording Location:
#1-#5, Berlin Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany
#6-#10, De Doelen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Recording Date:
#1-#5, 1966/11/03
#6-#10, 1966/11/08

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630814021320 has discid VRKZTsAS8..VHNJQyK4B2bOPYKo-
Recording Dates:
#1-3, 1967/06/30 or 1967/07/01
#4, 1967/07/21
#5, 1968/01/21
#6-#9, 1968/08 (late)
Recording Locations:
#1-3, Freebody Park, Newport, Rhode Island, USA
#4, at the funeral of John Coltrane, Saint Peter's Lutheran Church, NYC, USA
#5, Renaissance Ballroom, NYC, USA
#6-#9, New York City, USA
Additionnal:
Contains the remarkable long lost track that has been played during Coltrane's funeral.
Note there is a small doubt about Mary Maria playing tambourine or not on the last tracks.

SubOptimalCredits for composers:
Japan (traditional) / Universal Indians (Ayler)
Love Cry (Albert) / Truth (Albert) / Our Prayer (Don)
SubOptimalCredits for performers:
Albert Ayler performs solo recitation on #7
Call Cobbs also plays Rocksichord on the four last tracks.

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630814021320 has discid Ej3_O1Ed5D2BTwMEHo.oTYnslAI-
These last two discs contains interviews.
#1-#4: Ayler interview with Birger Jorgensen, early December 1964, Copenhagen Denmark.
#5-#8: Ayler interview with Birger Jorgensen, November 1964, Copenhagen Denmark.
#9-#23: Ayler interview with Daniel Caux, 27 July 1970, Saint Paul de Vence, France.

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630814021320 has discid 49xwE3wGGyUJ6DnFJMBO5llqB_s-
Contains interviews.
#1-#37 Ayler interview with Kiyoshi Koyama, 27 July 1970, Saint Paul de Vence, France
#38 Don Cherry interview with Daniel Caux, Paris, 1971

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630814021320 has discid CEuMGxgenjYu7QBxaRJqKel7PfI-
Recording Locations:
#1-#2, Town Hall, NYC, USA
#3-#6, La Colle sur Loup, Saint Paul de Vence, France
Recording Dates:
#1-#2, 1969/01/11
#3-#6, 1970/07/28 (? doubts ?)