Albert Ayler: Knocking On The Door of Astral Jazz

[jostber]

From today in AAJ:

Albert Ayler - Knocking On The Door of Astral Jazz

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=40674

Is that Stockholm, Berlin 1966 a good one?

[AllenLowe]

I always wonder - they continually cite "outrage" at his playing, but I've never seen actual documentation of such.

[JSngry]

It's just like some people view all profanity as an expression of anger or frustration, never an expression of happiness.

[JSngry]

It's like, if it's "intense" then it's got to be "angry" or some such.

And god forbid you ever be "loud". That's just crude!

[cih]

But cause outrage they did. "The sound was so different, so rare and raw," wrote the poet Ted Joans after hearing Ayler for the first time, "like screaming the word 'FUCK' in Saint Patrick's Cathedral on Easter Sunday."

in any case, certainly personal 'outrage' would be far from what Ted Joans - the "only Afro-American surrealist" - had in mind by this statement! His analogy was clearly meant to indicate a joyful/primal release..

Amiri bakara says something similar in the Revenant box iirc, I mean about the initial shock

Edited to add a diagonal line and the word primal

Edited November 7, 2011 by cih

[JSngry]

Oh, I'm sorry, I though Alan was talking about outrage in his playing, not at it.

My eyes and brain no longer work in conjuction on a predictably regular basis,

[cih]

although what you said made perfect sense to me anyway - my brain must be equally scrambled :eye:

[JSngry]

Brains w/scrambled eggs are quite tasty. Scrambled brains, otoh...