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Track Listing
DISC 1: HOLY GHOST:
1. Sonnymoon For Two
2. Summertime
3. On Green Dolphin Street
4. Spoken Intro
5. Four
6. Untitled (Saints)
7. Saints
8. Ghost
DISC 2: HOLY GHOST:
1. Wizard, The
2. Children
3. Spirits (Theme)
4. Spoken Intro
5. Spirits
6. Vibrations
7. Untitled
8. Mothers
9. Children
10. Spirits
11. Untitled
DISC 3: HOLY GHOST:
1. Spoken Intro
2. Spirits Rejoice
3. D.C.
4. Untitled
5. Our Prayer
6. Spoken Intro
7. Untitled
8. Ghosts
9. Spirits Rejoice
10. Prophet/Ghosts/Spiritual Bells
11. Our Prayer
DISC 4: HOLY GHOST:
1. Untitled/Truth Is Marching In
2. Spirits
3. Zion Hill
4. Spirits
5. Spiritual Bells
6. Untitled
DISC 5: HOLY GHOST:
1. Spoken Intro
2. Ghosts/Bells
3. Truth Is Marching In
4. Omega
5. Our Prayer
6. Spoken Intro
7. Truth Is Marching In
8. Bells
9. Spirits Rejoice
10. Free Spiritual Musics Part IV
DISC 6: HOLY GHOST:
1. Truth Is Marching in/Omega
2. Japan/Universal Indians
3. Our Prayer
4. Love Cry/Truth Is Marching in/Our Prayer
5. Venus/Upper and Lower Egypt
6. Untitled Blues
7. Untitled Sermon
8. Thank God For Women
9. New Ghosts - (demo fragments)
DISC 7: HOLY GHOST:
1. Prophet John
2. Judge Ye Not
3. Mothers/Children
4. Untitled
5. Untitled
6. Untitled
DISC 8: HOLY GHOST:
1. Interview With Birger Jorgensen: Travel and Plans
2. Holbaek
3. (The) New Blues
4. Christmastime Stateside
5. (A) Great Change
6. Traveling and Coltrane
7. Drummers and Sunny Murray
8. (A) Job to Do
9. Interview With Daniel Caux: Birth, Family, First Music
10. Academy, The Road, School
11. Young Professional and Army
12. Sweden
13. New York
14. 1964
15. Frustration, Sources
16. 1966 Tour and Coltrane
17. Impulse and Mary Maria
18. (The) Artist's Life
19. Question: LeRoi Jones
20. Question: "For John Coltrane"
21. Question: Socio-Political Connections
22. Instrumentation, Engineering
23. Choosing the Players
DISC 9: HOLY GHOST:
1. Interview With Kiyoshi Koyama: Current Activity
2. Antibes
3. Japan/Coltrane's Funeral
4. Clubs
5. Ahead of My Time
6. Home Lives: Brooklyn and Cleveland
7. Impulse, Pt 1: Hippies
8. "Space Music"
9. Don
10. "Thank God For Women"
11. Blues & Rhythm
12. Copying My Records
13. Impulse Pt. 2, New Grass
14. Tone and "Vibration"
15. Rollins, Coleman and Coltrane
16. Maeght Group
17. Serenity of Life
18. Childhood Memories, Pt. 1
19. (Blairman Enters)
20. Early Professional Career
21. Childhood Memories, Pt. 2
22. Don's Music
23. "I Love America" And Youth
24. Mary and Golf
25. Early Relationships and Mary Maria
26. Japan Work and Warm Weather
27. Play Solo
28. Naming Tunes
29. Charles Ives
30. Influences
31. Practicing
32. (The) Healing Force
33. Diet and America
34. Defining "Improvisation"
35. Sonny Rollins, Reactions and Miles Davis
36. Newport '67
37. Keeping to Oneself (Mary Maria Joins)
38. Don & Mocqui Cherry Inverview With Daniel Caux
Album Notes
The deluxe box HOLY GHOST features 9 CDs of rare & unissued recordings and includes a 208 pg. full-color hardbound book with new essays by Amiri Baraka, Val Wilmer & other Ayler scholars, unpublished photos & family memorabilia, artist testimonials of first encounters with Ayler's music and an exhaustive chronology of Ayler performance activities. The set is housed in a lavish Spirit Box cast from a handcarved original. Also includes a 10th bonus disc featuring Albert Ayler as member of U.S. Army Band!
Personnel include: Albert Ayler (vocals, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone); Mary Parks (vocals); Michel Sampson (violin); Jimmy Lyons (alto saxophone); Frank Wright, Pharoah Sanders, Sam Rivers (tenor saxophone); Donald Ayler, Chris Capers (trumpet); Don Cherry (cornet); Call Cobbs (piano, harpsichord); Dave Burrell, Burton Greene, Cecil Taylor (piano); Bill Folwell (double bass, bass guitar); Gary Peacock, Richard Davis , Sirone, Steve Tintweiss, Mutawef Shaheed (double bass); Milford Graves, Rashied Ali, Roger Blank, Ronald Shannon Jackson, Sunny Murray, Beaver Harris, Bernard Purdie (drums); Herbert Katz Quintet.
Liner Note Authors: Amiri Baraka; Valerie Wilmer; Marc Chaloin; Ben Young; Daniel Caux; Carl Woideck.
Recording information: 1962 - 1970.
Industry Reviews
[I]t still sounds utterly unique, utterly compelling, simultaneously familiar and alien.
4 stars out of 5 - HOLY GHOST, trimmings and all, is a most collectable memorial, and one of the phonographic events of the year.
5 stars out of 5 - HOLY GHOST is his rich, just memorial: a box of revelations that add up to a resurrection.
Ayler's unhinged sound was shocking in the '60s, and it still is - often weirdly beautiful, always deeply human.
Included in Rolling Stone's The 10 Best Reissues & Anthologies Of 2004 - [H]e blows like a man sure of his eventual reward. Here it is.
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