Forthcoming Ayler box

spekkola · January-18th-2004, 08:03 AM

Is there any news about this box??? First time I heard about this box was something like year ago... is there any days or information available somewhere? Is it going to include only unreleased music? Revenant's work with other boxes has been really nice so I really waiting for this one.

Songs for Coltrane's funeral is maybe too intimate...? Ok, part of it is already in internet, so why not:
http://ayler0.tripod.com/assets/multimedia/funeral.mp3

hmm...

JaSt · January-18th-2004, 10:16 AM

If I'm correctly informed, it will include the 20 minutes broadcasts from Helsinki in June 1962 (the very first recording!) and the 20 minutes with Taylor, Lyons and Murray from Copenhagen in November 1962.
Wouldn't be surpriced if also the Newport and the Trane funeral concerts will be included.
Nothing confirmed but, we can always hope.

martini · January-18th-2004, 09:29 PM

I have emailed Revenant three times to try to get information about this set, but they have never responded. I REALLY hope that it is released, though. I don't care what it costs.

Matt Martini

Other Steve · January-19th-2004, 12:17 PM

I can't tell you exactly what's in the Ayler box, because I don't know myself. But the working title is Holy Ghost, and the years covered are 1961-1970, including Ayler's earliest and last-known recordings. Most of the material will be live airchecks, though there will also be some unreleased studio recordings and live loft tapes. (Me, I'm kinda hoping for the Feb. 19. 1966 Lincoln Center concert with Trane, Pharoah and Carlos Ward -- as David Wild has noted, Trane was recording most of his shows by that point, and Ravi's certainly been going through the family tape archives lately.)

Speculation aside, the box is due in October, and from the few pieces of production design I've seen, it's going to be a spectacularly beautiful item, up to the label's high standard and in most cases surpassing it.

Trust me, if this is even half as good as it appears to be, Holy Ghost is going to be the event release of this year the way Jan's Jimmy Lyons box was last year.

(For a taste of what might exist out there, go here: http://www.ayler.supanet.com/html/unreleased.html)

sumer001 · January-20th-2004, 02:10 PM

I received the following from Revenant about the Ayler set.

"The Ayler set will comprise rare recordings from first to last by Mr. A. It will be 8-10 CDs, I'm guessing, and should provide a one-stop shop for the best writing about, images of, and the core of the best recorded performances representing the full range of symphonies to God which belched forth from AA's horn. Amiri Baraka has written a new piece and Val Wilmer has done a reconsideration of her more biographical piece from As Serious As Your Life. There will be unpublished photos, timelines, musicological analysis, "the first time I heard AA", and other treats."

By the way, I've just completed a reather extensive study of Ayler. For those interested, please feel free to visit http://www.tc.umn.edu/~sumer001/ayler.html . I'm in editing mode, so any comments are appreciated.

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shrugs · January-21st-2004, 01:14 PM

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Originally posted by sumer001
I received the following from Revenant about the Ayler set.

"The Ayler set will comprise rare recordings from first to last by Mr. A. It will be 8-10 CDs, I'm guessing, and should provide a one-stop shop for the best writing about, images of, and the core of the best recorded performances representing the full range of symphonies to God which belched forth from AA's horn. Amiri Baraka has written a new piece and Val Wilmer has done a reconsideration of her more biographical piece from As Serious As Your Life. There will be unpublished photos, timelines, musicological analysis, "the first time I heard AA", and other treats."

By the way, I've just completed a reather extensive study of Ayler. For those interested, please feel free to visit http://www.tc.umn.edu/~sumer001/ayler.html . I'm in editing mode, so any comments are appreciated.

_

Maybe Val Wilmer can reconsider her piece on Tony Williams as well.

spekkola · January-26th-2004, 04:59 PM

Thanks for the information. Now I'm really waiting for this box!!! It would be nice to have Helsinki concert there, Finnish broadcasting commany record this gig as well but they deleted it later. Nice job!

JaSt · January-27th-2004, 03:07 AM

"They" didn't delete it! It's a hilarious story.

spekkola · January-31st-2004, 11:29 AM

Heh, It seems that "they" didn't deleted it...."they" was just keeping it as a secret. Really nice that someone found the tapes.

Pete C · January-31st-2004, 11:40 AM

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Originally posted by sumer001
symphonies to God which belched forth from AA's horn.

Yuck!