Holy Ghost: Rare & Unissued Recordings (1962-70) (2004)

About this title: After listening to Revenant's massive Albert Ayler box set, Holy Ghost: Rare & Unissued Recordings (1962-70), a pair of questions assert themselves in the uneasily settling silence that follows: who was Albert Ayler, and how did he come to be? At the time of this box set's release 26 years after the Cleveland native's mysterious death -- his lifeless body was found floating in New York's East River, without a suicide note -- those questions loom larger than ever. Revenant's amazing package certainly adds weight and heft to the argument for Ayler's true place in the jazz pantheon, not only as ... read more

Tracks:

1. Sonnymoon for Two [Rollins]
2. Summertime [Gershwin]
3. On Green Dolphin Street [Kaper]
4. Spoken Introduction by Broadcast Announcer and Borge Roger
5. Four [Taylor]
6. Spirits [Incomplete Take] [Ayler]
7. Saints [Ayler]
8. Ghosts [Incomplete Take] [Ayler]
9. The Wizard [Ayler]
10. Children [Ayler]
11. Spirits (Theme) [Ayler]
12. Spoken Radio Introduction
13. Spirits [Ayler]
14. Vibrations [Ayler]
15. Tune Q [Ayler]
16. Mothers [Ayler]
17. Children [Ayler]
18. Spirits (Theme) [Ayler]
19. [Untitled Track] [Ayler]
20. Spoken Introduction by Peter Bergman
21. Spirits Rejoice [Ayler]
22. D.C. [Cherry]
23. [Minor Waltz] [Untitled Track] [Ayler]
24. Our Prayer [Ayler]
25. Spoken Introduction by Peter Bergman
26. F# Tune [Untitled Track] [Ayler]
27. Ghosts [Ayler]
28. Spirits Rejoice [Ayler]
29. Prophet/Ghosts/Spiritual Bells [Ayler]
30. Our Prayer/Spirits Rejoice [Ayler/Ayler]
31. /Truth Is Marching In [Untitled Track] [Ayler]
32. Spirits [Ayler]
33. Zion Hill [Ayler]
34. Spirits [Ayler]
35. Spiritual Bells [Ayler]
36. F# Tune [Untitled Track] [Ayler]
37. Concert Annoucement by Ralf Schulte-Bahrenberg
38. Ghosts/Bells [Ayler]
39. Truth Is Marching In [Ayler]
40. Omega [Ayler]
41. Our Prayer [Ayler]
42. Spoken Introduction by Peter DeWit
43. Truth Is Marching In [Ayler]
44. Bells [Ayler]
45. Spirits Rejoice [Ayler]
46. Free Spiritual Music, Pt. 4 [Ayler]
47. Truth Is Marching In/Omega [Ayler]
48. Japan/Universal Indians [Traditional/Ayler]
49. Our Prayer [Ayler]
50. Love Cry/Truth Is Marching In/Our Prayer [Ayler/Ayler]
51. Venus/Upper and Lower Egypt [Sanders]
52. (Blues) [Untitled Track] [Ayler]
53. [Untitled Track] [Ayler]
54. Thank God for Women [Ayler/Parks]
55. New Ghosts [Demo Fragments] [Ayler/Parks]
56. Prophet John [Ayler]
57. Judge Ye Not [Ayler]
58. Mother/Children [Ayler]
59. [Untitled Track] [Incomplete Take] [Ayler]
60. [Untitled Track] [C Minor] [Ayler]
61. F Minor/C Minor [Untitled Track] [Ayler]
62. Travel and Plans [Interview]
63. Holbaek [Interview]
64. The New Blues [Interview]
65. Christmastime Stateside [Interview]
66. A Great Change [Interview]
67. Traveling and Coltrane [Interview]
68. Drummers and Sunny Murray [Interview]
69. A Job to Do [Interview]
70. Birth, Family, First Music [Interview]
71. Academy, the Road, School [Interview]
72. Sweden [Interview]
73. New York [Interview]
74. 1964 [Interview]
75. Antibes [Interview]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.