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New York Eye & Ear Control | 
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| Artists: Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, John Tchicai, Roswell Rudd, Gary Peacock, Sonny Murray
Label: Esp Disk Ltd.
Category: Music
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 151334
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 825481010160
EAN: 0825481010160
ASIN: B0015LMOJS
Release Date: April 8, 2008
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Amazon.com
Although his recording career was comparatively brief, tenor saxophonist Albert Ayler had a profound impact on avant garde jazz, offering an alternative approach to the tenor at a time when John Coltrane was generally considered the first and last word. Indeed, Ayler was a welcome relief to a generation of saxophonists in need of a way back into the music after Coltrane had set the bar at a height of technical proficiency nearly impossible to achieve. Ayler, a primitive, was possessed of a massive vibrato and robust attack, and he used them to mount breathtaking assaults on the simplest melodies and harmonies. His tonal and melodic legacy can be heard in a wide range of disciples, most notably David Murray. New York Eye and Ear Control is an unusual and not particularly indicative date for Ayler. Many of his best recordings were done in trio and quartet--particularly the landmark Spiritual Unity--and the expanded band here, while an experimental who's-who with Don Cherry, Roswell Rudd, Sonny Murray, John Tchicai, and Gary Peacock, proves comparatively muddled. Still, serious students of the underground will want to check it out. --Fred Goodman
Album Description
"This is a very interesting set, music that was freely improvised and used as the soundtrack for the 34-minute short film New York Eye & Ear Control ... The music is fiery but with enough colorful moments to hold one's interest throughout." -- All Music Guide Director Michael Snow is a Canadian national treasure and a true Renaissance man. He assembled a stellar group to improvise a soundtrack for his art film Walking Woman. "This is a very interesting set, music that was freely improvised and used as the soundtrack for the 34-minute short film New York Eye & Ear Control. Tenor saxophonist Albert Ayler leads the allstar sextet (which also includes trumpeter Don Cherry, altoist John Tchicai, trombonist Roswell Rudd, bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Sunny Murray) on two lengthy jams. The music is fiery but with enough colorful moments to hold one's interest throughout." -- All Music Guide Director Michael Snow is a Canadian national treasure and a true Renaissance man. He assembled a stellar group to improvise a soundtrack for his art film Walking Woman, featuring a silhouette that is rumored to have been inspired by Carla Bley.
Album Description
It isn't strictly an Albert Ayler album but a very interesting collaborative freely improvised soundtrack project for Michael Snow's film of the same name. Recorded in July 1964 by Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Roswell Rudd, John Tchicai, Gary Peacock & Sunny Murray. Liner notes, photos & more, digitally remastered from the original tapes.
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New York Eye and Ear Control June 26, 2008
Stuart Jefferson (San Diego,Ca)
One disc,45 min. approximately. Remastered sound. A portion of this music was used for an experimental film in the sixties. Without seeing the film itself,its difficult to determine the music's effectiveness in that context. What we're left with is avant-garde music which sounds very much of it's time and place. New York in the sixties was where a lot of these sounds eminated,and this is no exception. The first track is short(1:05)and serves as an introduction for whats to come. The second track is a bit over twenty minutes,which gives the players time to explore the tension and release,the quiet and harsher passages and the combined sound of their instruments. The final track,also over twenty minutes,is a bit more disjointed sounding(even for this music),with portions holding together over longer stretches of atonal dissonance. All compositions are by Albert Ayler and if you're familiar with his style of writing,these will come as no surprise. A look at the list of players tells a lot about what to expect-everyone is well-known as an "outside" player. However,Ayler doesn't play so much as a soloist,more an ensemble player. As with a lot of this music,repeated listenings are rewarded with an understanding and appreciation of totally "free" music. There is a constant intermingling of instruments as they weave in and out,slow down,and then accelerate through the compositions. If you're appreciation of music runs in this area,this is something you should pick up. Ayler,Cherry,Tchicai,Rudd,Peacock,and the great drummer Sunny Murray have recorded these fine tracks which,at the time,and in the present,should be much more well-known. In this day and age of cookie-cutter,bland music,its nice to see a label like ESP re-release this and other albums in their catalogue,as a presciption for some of what passes for jazz and music in general. This music needs to be heard and paid attention to,if for no other reason than to keep us from sinking under the weight of bland,short attention span listening.
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