Albert Ayler

Spirits To Ghosts: Revisited

Ezz-Thetics

Two stone classic LPs from 1964: Witches And Devils aka Spirits — with terrific playing by Sunny Murray and Henry Grimes, plus Norman Howard and Earle Henderson — and Vibrations aka Ghosts, with Murray and Gary Peacock from the Spiritual Unity session the same year, plus Don Cherry hard-wired straight into the mains.
Surrealists go on about ‘convulsive beauty’. Surely this is it, no frills.
Way too spiritual and too jazz to pass for Spiritual Jazz.
Smartly presented, with re-mastered sound, excellent notes, and royalties going to the Ayler estate.

• Spirits
• Prophecy
• Holy, holy
• Witches and devils
• Ghosts
• Mothers
• Vibrations
• Holy spirit
• Ghosts
• Children