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Title: Warning: better Ayler available
Review: Don't buy this expecting it to be full of raw power and exciting improvising.I know lots of people love this album: I find much of it very simple and uninventive - much of Ayler's improvising has a plodding predictable feel and it's especially lacking in rhythmic interest.However AT TIMES it really comes alive such as in the second variation of Ghosts - even though I feel embarrassed every time I hear the boring and irritating unadorned theme.For a much tastier and more consistently interesting set I would heartily recommendVibrations, which has the same band except for the welcome addition of Don Cherry and of which ace reviewer Michael Stack says: Curious parties on Ayler should start here.
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