Albert Ayler and Paul McCartney

[gvopedz]

In last night’s “Great Performances” program on PBS, Paul McCartney mentioned that in the mid1960s he made a home movie that had an Albert Ayler performance in the soundtrack. The movie was of a gendarme in France directing traffic and the tune was Ayler’s version of “La Marseillaise.” McCartney’s comment was in the Magical Mystery Tour Revisited documentary:

http://www.pbs.org/w...-the-film/1464/

Not the first time I see McCartney and jazz together:

http://www.allaboutj...p?id=34090&pg=1

[danasgoodstuff]

Hence the begining of "All You Need is Love"?

[PHILLYQ]

The cognitive dissonance of McCartney & Ayler is too much for me to handle. It's like Liberace and Cecil Taylor working together.

[JETman]

The cognitive dissonance of McCartney & Ayler is too much for me to handle. It's like Liberace and Cecil Taylor working together.

So, McCartney's Liberace to you?

[robertoart]

The cognitive dissonance of McCartney & Ayler is too much for me to handle. It's like Liberace and Cecil Taylor working together.

So, McCartney's Liberace to you?

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He's Macca to his friends.

I wonder if Ayler was still alive, would McCartney have asked him to play on his Jazz album. and would Ayler have acquiesced.

Ayler and Dianna Kral, thats a bit more cognitive dissonance for you.

Good old McCartney...always trying to push his avant-garde credentials/pretensions.

[JSngry]

It's easy to forget today that Paul was the original London/Hipster/Swinger/Scenester of the group, before John met Yoko and he Linda. A casual awareness of Ayler in 1968 doesn't seem odd at all.