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Title: The pure Sound from a pure musician
Review: "My Name Is Albert Ayler", has the pioneer avant garde reed player performing a stunning "Summertime", plus "Green Dolphin St", "Bye Bye Blackbird" on soprano, and "Billies Bounce" with a straight ahead rhythm section.Ayler has a great sound on soprano that may sound like he is blissfully ignorant of the requirements of the music, but I find that in part to be the source of the great joy this recording delivers. As for the chord changes and form, on closer examination, though it seems Ayler may navigate through specific instances via "mind-over-matter", he still has a very good broad sense of the form. He doesn't get lost. The result is childlike play in the best sense of the word.
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