#Albert Ayler in Greenwich Village

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Daily Listening, Day #1,184 - March 29th, 2023

Album: Albert Ayler In Greenwich Village (Impulse!, 1967)

Artist: Albert Ayler

Genre: Free Jazz

Track Listing:

"For John Coltrane"

"Change Has Come"

"Truth Is Marching In"

"Our Prayer"

Favorite Song: "Change Has Come"

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Albert Ayler – In Greenwich Village (1967) Cover Design by Robert & Barbara Flynn

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Don Cherry: “It’s Not My Music”

“It’s not my music” asserts Don Cherry, in a 1978 documentary about the man himself and his music, which was his way of contradicting the very idea of ‘owning’ music, a very Tibetan Buddhist-like idea from this most stylistically-liberated of musicians. (”How can you cling to something? Life itself is not permanent”.)  I came across the film on YouTube last night, originally downloaded in October 2019, my interest in the trumpeter having been piqued by a blog about him that I posted a few weeks back (Don Cherry: Down to The Wire). It was a documentary originally made for Swedish TV, and the narration moves back and forth from the Cherry family’s converted school house in that country to the environs of  New York’s Long Island.

Cherry has never especially been on of my absolute favourite musicians, but I found this film to be a fascinating introduction to his variegated career, and would recommend it to anyone new to his music or, who, like me, has sat on the fence somewhat. (Given the sheer stylistic incontinence offered here, it might be more appropriate to ask “which Don Cherry are you referring to?”) The opening salvo is a shot of Cherry playing duck calls in the woods on a carved wooden ‘duck flute’. We see shots of the Cherry family at the airport, with his son, Eagle Eye (born 1968) and  his gum-chewing teenage step-daughter Neneh (born 1964) - their future successes as recording artists in their own right serve as a tribute to Don’s parenting. There are shots of his wife, Moki, working on her textiles and tapestries (one of which graces the cover of Relativity Suite). All in all, Don is presented as all round ‘family guy’, gentle and playful (’puckish’ is a word that I have seen describing his playing and his personality), but he is an articulate, trenchant and informative commentator on jazz in fifties New York and beyond. Moving to Los Angeles from Oklahoma in 1940 (like so many of his race) at the age of four, he outlines the decision to make his eventual move to New York, with the Ornette Coleman Quartet in 1959. And jazz history was made.

There is some great footage of the trumpeter playing at Ali’s Alley, in Greenwich Village, with (Rashied) Ali himself and James Blood Ulmer, which must be one of the earliest film stock of the guitarist before he found fame with Ornette (on Blood’s own Tales of Captain Black) and on Rough Trade Records (with Are You Glad to be in America?). The sound is blues-informed, and Cherry points out the importance of the blues, by playing same on his doussn’gouni, the African hand-made stringed instrument. His Afro-Indian influences are further expressed through his karnatic vocalising (south Indian in origin), and his featured  chants, as well as the percussion pieces, reminded me somewhat of what Sun Ra was trying to achieve at around the same time. Ulmer’s ‘space blues’ (for want of a better expression) or ‘SoHo Funk’ (as Don describes it in the documentary) took me back to circa 1980 - does anyone remember ‘punk jazz’, which both Ulmer and Ornette got somehow caught up in with Are You Glad... and the latter’s Of Human Feelings, which emerged in that year? Thankfully, this faux-genre was soon put to rest alongside the likes of James Chance/Black and Material and the other awful No Wavers, with final coffin-nails re-hammered in, just to make sure, with such doozies as The Blue Humans, Drive Like Jehu and The Nation of Ulysses in the 90s. John Zorn’s ‘hard core Ornette tribute’ Spy Vs Spy was particularly awful. in its attention-seeking ‘transgression’.

Several American improvisers liked to play in Sweden and Denmark - Albert Ayler, Cecil Taylor, John Tchicai, Dexter Gordon, for example - and the contrast between the Scandinavian countryside and the streets of New York is made much of, and there is a particularly resonant (in both senses of the word) section where Don plays the pocket trumpet in the Swedish woods and fields. To me, it resembled his playing on the wonderful ‘Rawalpindi Blues’ and ‘A.I.R’ on Escalator Over the Hill, with the addition of an added avian background chorus. The school house is a NY loft transposed into, basically, a ‘hippie communal space’  (or a ‘free space’ as Don describes both his music and his home), and I was reminded of Faust’s similar communal arrangements in their Wumme ex-school dwelling. I’d recommend Bill Shoemaker’s ‘Jazz in the  70s’ and  Michael C. Heller’s ‘Loft Jazz’ as accompanying texts to this film, but the sight of Eagle Eye playing a harmonium under Don’s tutelage (”it’s all in there!”) is worth the price of admission alone.

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Albert Ayler ‎– In Greenwich Village (1967 - Live Album)

Tracklist: [00:00]  A1.  For John Coltrane    Bass – Alan Silva/ Cello – Joel Friedman [13:39]  A2.  Change Has Come    Bass – Alan Silva/ Cello – Joel Friedman [20:05]  B1.  Truth Is Marching In    Bass – Henry Grimes/ Violin – Michel Sampson [32:44]  B2.  Our Prayer    Bass – Henry Grimes/ Violin – Michel Sampson 

 Credits:    Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – Albert Ayler    Bass – Bill Folwell    Design [Cover] – Robert & Barbara Flynn    Design [Liner] – Joe Lebow    Drums – Beaver Harris    Engineer – George Klabin    Producer – Bob Thiele    Trumpet – Donald Ayler (tracks: A2 to B2)

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Albert Ayler - Albert Ayler in Greenwich Village

Personnel

Albert Ayler – alto saxophone, tenor saxophone

Donald Ayler – trumpet

Bill Folwell – bass

Joel Friedman – cello

Henry Grimes – bass

Beaver Harris – drums

Michel Sampson – violin

Alan Silva – bass

Albert Ayler - Albert Ayler in Greenwich Village

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"The Truth Is Marching In" [Albert Ayler: Live In Greenwich Village (Impulse!, Rec. 1966)] Por Pachi Tapiz. JazzX5 #489 [Minipodcast de jazz]

“The Truth Is Marching In” [Albert Ayler: Live In Greenwich Village (Impulse!, Rec. 1966)] Por Pachi Tapiz. JazzX5 #489 [Minipodcast de jazz]

“The Truth Is Marching In” Albert Ayler: Live In Greenwich Village. The Complete Impulse Recordings (Impulse! Rec. 1966 – 1967) Albert Ayler, Don Ayler, Michael Sampson, Bill Folwell, Henry Grimes, Beaver Harris. El tema es una composición de Albert Ayler. ¿Sabías que? Aunque el disco en el que se incluye “The Truth Is Marching In” tiene el título  Live In Greenwich Village. The Complete Impulse…

[julio-viernes]

Albert Ayler entre el jazz de vanguardia, las “marching bands”, y ciertos motivos centro- suramericanos, creando un fusión interesante, original, única. Este “Love Cry”, la canción que dio título a su primer LP de 1968, se aproxima al célebre baile mejicano “La Raspa”. El saxofonista oriundo de Cleveland ya se había obstinado en un riff similar en “Change Has Come” (1′ 30″) de su disco previo en directo en el Greenwich Village neoyorquino. 

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I recently discovered your blog and enjoy reading it. I'd be interested to see your ballot for the best albums of the 1960s feature if you're willing to post it sometime.

This was it:

1. Bob Dylan: Blonde on Blonde (1966)2. John Coltrane: A Love Supreme (1965)3. The Beatles: The Beatles (1968)4. Miles Davis: In a Silent Way (1969)5. Leonard Cohen: Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)6. Herbie Hancock: Maiden Voyage (1966)7. The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds (1966)8. Albert Ayler/Don Cherry: Vibrations9. Nina Simone: Wild Is the Wind (1966)10. The Band: Music from Big Pink (1968)11. Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin II (1969)12. Grateful Dead: Live/Dead (1969)13. Ornette Coleman Trio: Live at the Golden Circle Stockholm Vol. 1 (1965)14. Van Morrison: Astral Weeks (1968)15. Neil Young: Everybody Knows This is Nowhere (1969)16. Bill Evans: Sunday at the Village Vanguard17. Gil Evans: Out of the Cool18. Velvet Underground and Nico: Velvet Underground and Nico (1966)19. The Beatles: Revolver (1966)20. Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited (1965)21. The Rolling Stones: Beggars Banquet (1968)22. The Beach Boys: Smiley Smile (1967)23. Captain Beefheart: Trout Mask Replica (1969)24. Eric Dolphy: Out to Lunch (1964)25. Charles Mingus: Mingus Plays Piano26. Alexander "Skip" Spence: Oar (1969)27. v/a: Golden Rain (gamelan) (1969)28. Buffy Sainte-Marie: It's My Way (1964)29. Scott Walker (Scott Engel): Scott 4 (1969)30. Albert Ayler: Albert Ayler in Greenwich Village31. Duke Ellington/Charles Mingus/Max Roach: Money Jungle (1963)32. Fred Neil: Fred Neil (1967)33. John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman: John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman34. John Fahey: Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death (1965)35. White Noise: An Electric Storm (1969)36. Nina Simone: In Concert (1964)37. Ornette Coleman: This Is Our Music (1961)38. Frank Sinatra: September of My Years (1965)39. Sly & the Family Stone: Stand! (1969)40. Crosby, Stills & Nash: Crosby Stills & Nash (1969)41. Pharoah Sanders: Karma (1969)42. Al Green : Green is Blues43. Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood: Nancy & Lee (1968)44. Silver Apples: Silver Apples (1968)45. The Who: Tommy (1969)46. Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto ft. Antonio Carlos Jobim: Getz / Gilberto (1964)47. Terry Riley: A Rainbow in Curved Air (1969)48. Thelonious Monk: Underground49. Art Ensemble of Chicago: Message to Our Folks50. The United States of America: The United States of America (1968)51. Velvet Underground: Velvet Underground (1969)52. Isaac Hayes: Hot Buttered Soul (1969)53. Ray Barretto: Acid (1968)54. Sun Ra: The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vol. 1&2 (1965)55. The Byrds: The Notorious Byrd Brothers (1968)56. The Zombies: Odessey and Oracle (1968)57. The Rolling Stones: Let It Bleed (1969)58. Joe Meek: I Hear a New World Part 159. Albert Ayler: Spiritual Unity (1964)60. Alice Coltrane: A Monastic Trio61. Judy Garland: At Carnegie Hall62. The Kinks: The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society (1968)63. Dusty Springfield: Dusty in Memphis (1969)64. John Coltrane: My Favorite Things (1961)65. John Fahey: Yellow Princess (1969)66. Simon and Garfunkel: Bookends (1968)67. George Russell: Ezz-thetics68. Mickey Newbury: Looks Like Rain (1969)69. Otis Redding: Otis Blue (1965)70. Miles Davis: Nefertiti (1968)71. Mississippi Fred McDowell: I Do Not Play No Rock 'n' Roll72. Leo Kottke: 6- And 12-String Guitar73. Oliver Nelson: The Blues and the Abstract Truth (1961)74. Scott Walker: Scott 3 (1969)75. The Doors: The Doors (1967)76. The Free Design: Kites Are Fun (1967)77. Dr. John: Gris-Gris (1968)78. Mal Waldron: The Quest79. Archie Shepp: Mama Too Tight80. Odetta: Sings Folk Songs81. Judy Henske: Little Bit Of Sunshine . . . Little Bit Of Rain82. Miriam Makeba: Pata Pata83. Tod Dockstader: Drone; Two Fragments From Apocalypse; Water Music (1966)84. Bob Seger System: Ramblin' Gamblin' Man85. The Pentangle: The Pentangle86. Various Artists: Midnight Cowboy OST87. Quincy Jones: Walking in Space (1969)88. Archie Shepp: Fire Music89. Frank Zappa And The Mothers Of Invention: Freak Out! (1966)90. Amon Düül: Psychedelic Underground91. Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra: The Magic City (1966)92. Os Mutantes: Os Mutantes (1968)

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Albert Ayler - Live At Greenwich Village 

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The New Wave In Jazz (1965) Label : Impulse! A-90 "Village Gate", Greenwich Village, NY, March 28, 1965 John Coltrane Quartet, Albert Ayler Quintet, Archie Shepp Septet, Grachan Moncur 3 Quartet, Charles Tolliver Quartet+Bobby Hutcherson #JohnColtrane 🎧 https://t.co/yf1eLtt4q2 pic.twitter.com/8DPDEcZb8M

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Jazz Is… #12: Eric Dolphy

Swing-era bandleader Cab Calloway once penned a Hepster’s Dictionary, where he defined the term “hep cat” as “a guy who knows all the answers, understands jive.” Hep cats (or hipsters, as they were later called) were initially just jazz musicians, but they became pop culture caricatures – the goateed and nattily-dressed denizens of smoky basement clubs in Greenwich Village, whose laconic attitude and insider patois set them apart from ordinary squares. Eric Dolphy wasn’t the prototype (that was probably Dizzy Gillespie), but he should’ve been. As his mentor, bassist Charles Mingus, said, Dolphy was “a complete musician [who] could fit anywhere. He had mastered jazz. And he had mastered all of the instruments he played. In fact, he knew more than was supposed to be possible to do on them.”

Eric Allan Dolphy, Jr. was born in Los Angeles in 1928. His mother was a Panamanian immigrant. He began playing the clarinet at age 6. By high school, he had also mastered the oboe, the flute, and the saxophone. He attended LA City College, where he directed the orchestra. While there, he met Mingus and John Coltrane. Dolphy’s professional break came in 1958, when he toured with Chico Hamilton’s quintet. There’s video of that band from the Newport Jazz Festival in the movie Jazz on a Summer’s Day. (The Chico Hamilton set is around 50:45.)

In 1959, Dolphy left that band for New York. There, he joined Mingus’ big band, and featured on the 1960 albums Mingus Revisited, Mingus at Antibes, and Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus. That year, he also recorded his first two records as a leader—Outward Bound (with Freddie Hubbard on trumpet) and Out There (with Miles Davis’ eventual second-classic-quintet bassist Ron Carter on cello).

After a trip to Europe, Dolphy returned to the States and joined Coltrane’s band for the 1961 album Africa/Brass. The Coltrane quintet with Dolphy was also documented on the fantastic Live at the Village Vanguard album (and, years later, on the Complete 1961Village Vanguard Recordings). That ensemble was not a critical favorite, and Down Beat magazine called their often thrilling, and always challenging, music “anti-jazz.”

[Photo credit: Herb Snitzer.]

In the early ‘60s, Dolphy gained prominence as a multi-instrumental mercenary, and played on some of the most essential albums of that period: Mingus’ Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus, Oliver Nelson’s The Blues and the Abstract Truth, and Andrew Hill’s Point of Departure. Dolphy even played opposite Ornette Coleman at the front of one of the two double quartets on the latter’s seminal Free Jazz.

Dolphy recorded his most renowned album as a leader, Out to Lunch!, for Blue Note Records in 1964. It featured Dolphy on bass clarinet, alto sax, and flute; Hubbard on trumpet; Bobby Hutcherson on vibraphone; and eighteen year-old drummer Tony Williams, who would soon join Miles’ band. The album is an all-time classic. The Penguin Guide to Jazz said, “If it is a masterpiece, then it is not so much a flawed as a slightly tentative masterpiece.” That’s a decent description. The album is mostly angular and moody, like a New Wave film score, but also emotionally expressive and open – particularly, the standout track “Something Sweet, Something Tender.” Jawdropping stuff. Hubbard and Hutcherson shine throughout, but this is Dolphy’s show. He was never hepper.

Before Out to Lunch! was released, Dolphy accompanied Mingus’ band for a European tour. One night in Olso, Norway, he announced that he would be leaving the band and staying on the Continent. According to the wiki, he was disillusioned with the tepid reception that his music had received in the U.S. Dolphy and his fiancee, ballet dancer Joyce Mordecai, moved to Paris, where he played with Jazz Messenger alum, Donald Byrd, and planned sessions with a couple of like-minded ex-pats – saxophonist Albert Ayler (imagine that) and pianist Cecil Taylor (ditto).

While onstage in Berlin on June 29, 1964, Dolphy collapsed. He was rushed to a hospital, where doctors assumed that, as a stereotypical jazz musician, he was a junkie suffering from withdrawal. They refused to treat him, deciding to wait until the drugs ran their course. Dolphy was actually straight, and always had been; he was diabetic, and needed insulin. He lapsed into a coma and died.

Mingus offered a tribute in the liner notes to a posthumous album, Last Date: “Usually, when a man dies, you remember—or you say you remember—only the good things about him. With Eric, that’s all you could remember. I don’t remember any drags he did to anybody. The man was absolutely without a need to hurt.” (There’s a really touching post on the Under the Deer blog about that album.) And in a contemporary interview, Coltrane added his own thoughts: “Whatever I’d say would be an understatement. I can only say my life was made much better by knowing him. He was one of the greatest people I’ve ever known, as a man, a friend, and a musician.”

The Mingus Jazz Is post included a video of his sextet with Dolphy playing Duke Ellington’s “Take the A-Train.” Here it is again:

More soon.

JF

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Free The Jazz #79 [for Val Wilmer]

1 - The Ornette Coleman Quartet - Kaleidoscope (from "This Is Our Music", 1961 Atlantic)

2 - Sun Ra - There Is Change In The Air (from "The Antique Blacks", 1978 Saturn)

3 - Noah Howard - Ole Negro (from "The Black Ark", 1973 Freedom)

4 - Don Pullen / Milford Graves - P.G. I (edit) (from "In Concert At Yale University", 1966 SRP)

5 - John Coltrane - Compassion (from "First Meditations (For Quartet)", 1977 Impulse!)

6 - The Bill Dixon Orchestra - Metamorphoses 1962-1966 (from "Intents and Purposes", 1967 RCA Victor)

7 - Albert Ayler - Our Prayer (from "In Greenwich Village", 1967 Impulse!)

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200 60s Albums

60′s lists are making the rounds right now, so I figured I’d throw my hat in the ring. As usual, the choices reflect my obsessions and my limitations. This list is more canonist than I’d prefer but I’m no crate digger. (And before you get too excited, know this: it’s, like,  50% jazz.)

The 5th Dimension – The Age of Aquarias

13th Floor Elevators – Easter Everywhere

Albert Ayler – Albert Ayler in Greenwich Village

Albert Ayler – New York Eye & Ear Control

Al Green – Green is Blues

AMM – AMMusic

Andrew Hill – Black Fire

Andrew Hill – Point of Departure

Anita O'Day & Carl Tjader – Time for Two

Archie Shepp – Four for Trane

Aretha Franklin – I Never Loved a Man

Aretha Franklin – Lady Soul

Art Ensemble of Chicago – People in Sorrow

Art Ensemble of Chicago – A Jackson in Your House

Art Pepper – Smack Up

B.B. King – Live at the Regal

The Band – The Band

The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys -- Wild Honey

The Beatles – Rubber Soul

The Beatles – Please Please Me

The Beatles – Magical Myster Tour (US L.P. version)

Beroff, etc. – Messiean: Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps

Big Brother & The Holding Company – Cheap Thrills

Bill Evans Trio – Waltz for Debby

Bill Evans – Portrait in Jazz

Blue Cheer – Outside Inside

Bob Dylan – Another Side of Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited

Bobbie Gentry – Ode to Billie Joe

Bobby Hutcherson – Components

Booker T. & the Mgs – Green Onions

Buck Owens & His Buckaroos – Carnegie Hall Concert

Buddy Guy & Junior Wells – Hoodoo Man Blues

The Byrds – Sweetheart of the Rodeo

Can – Monster Movie

Cannonball Adderley – Sextet in New York

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Safe as Milk

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Trout Mask Replica

Caetano Veloso – Caetano Veloso

Cecil Taylor – Unit Structures

Cecil Taylor – Conquistador!

Charles Mingus – The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus – The Great Concert of Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus – Oh Yeah!

Chuck Berry – St. Louis to Liverpool

Coleman Hawkins – Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins

Creedence Clearwater Revival – Willy & The Poor Boys

Dexter Gordon – Go!

Dionne Warwick – Dionne Warwick in Valley of the Dolls

Dionne Warwick – Golden Hits

Dolly Parton – Just Because I'm a Woman

Don Cherry – Symphony for Improvisers

Donald Byrd – A New Perspective

Don Ellis – Electric Bath

The Doors – The Doors

Duke Ellington – Far East Suite

Duke Ellington - ...And His Mother Called Him Bill

Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Max Roach – Money Jungle

Dusty Springfield – Dusty in Memphis

Ella Fitzgerald – Ella in Berlin

Ella Fitzgerald – Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook

Elvis Presley – From Elvis in Memphis

Ennio Morricone – The Good, The Bad & the Ugly

Eric Dolphy – Out to Lunch

Eric Dolphy – Live at the Five Spot

Fairport Convention – Liege and Lief

Flamin' Groovies – Supersnazz

The Four Tops -  Reach Out

The Flying Burrito Brothers – The Gilded Palace of Sin

The Fugs – First Album

Frank Sinatra – Sinatra at the Sands

Frank Sinatra – Nice 'n' Easy

Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention – We're Only In It For The Money

Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention – Uncle Meat

Freddie Hubbard – Hub-Tones

Funkadelic – Funkadelic

Gerry Mulligan & Ben Webster – Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster

George Russell – Ezz-Thetic

George Solti, Vienna Philharmonic et al. – Das Ring Des Niebelungen

Glenn Gould – Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier, Bk 1

Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Tom Ze, et al. – Topicalia our Panis et Circencis

Godz – 2

Grachan Moncur III – Evolution

Grand Funk Railroad – Grand Funk

Grant Green – Grantstand

Grateful Dead – Aoxomoxoa

Gruppo Di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza – s/t

Gyorgy Ligeti – Requiem/Lontano/Continuum [Bour, Orchestre Du Sudwestfunk]

Hank Mobley – Soul Station

Harry Partch – The World of Harry Partch

Herbie Hancock – Empyrean Isles

Herbie Hancock – Maiden Voyage

Holy Modal Rounders – 1

Holy Modal Rounders – The Moray Ell Eats the Holy Modal Rounders

Horace Silver – Songs of my Father

Howlin' Wolf – Howlin' Wolf

Hungarian String Quartet – Barktok: Six String Quartets

Iannis Xenakis – Metastasis/Pithopakta/Eonta (Simonovic, Ensemble Instrumental De Musique...)

Incredible String Band – The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

Isaac Hayes – Hot Buttered Soul

Joao Gilberto & Stan Getz – Getz & Gilberto

James Brown – Sex Machine

James Brown – Live at the Apollo

Jackie Mclean – Destination...Out!

Jackie Mclean – One Step Beyond

Jacques Brel – Ces Gens-La

Jaki Byard – Jaki Byard Experience

Jerry Lee Lewis – Live at Star Club, Hamburg

The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Electric Ladyland

Jimmy Giuffre – Free Fall

Jimmy Rushing – Rushing Lullabyes

Jimmy Smith – Back at the Chicken Shack

Joao Gilberto, Stan Getz – Getz/Gilberto

Joe Harriot – Abstract

John Fahey – The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death

John Coltrane – Live at the Village Vanguard

John Coltrane – A Love Supreme

Johnny Cash – Orange Blossom Special

Johnny Hartman – John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman

Joseph Jarman – Song For

Karl Bohm, Nilsson, Windgassen, et al. – Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

Karlheinz Stockhausen – Hymnen

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Gielen/Kagel – Gruppen fur 3 Orchester

Karlheinz Stockhausen – Mikrophonie I&II

Kenny Burell – Midnight Blue

The Kinks – Something Else By The Kinks

Laura Nyro – Eli & The Thirteenth Confessions

Larry Young – Unity

Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin II

Lee Konitz – Motion

Lee Konitz – The Lee Konitz Duets

Lee Morgan – Searching for the New Land

Lennie Tristano – The New Tristano

Leonard Cohen – The Songs of Leonard Cohen

Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington – The Great Summit

Luciano Berio/Swingle Singers/New York Philharmonic – Sinfonia

Magic Sam – West Side Soul

Martha Reeves & The Vandellas – Dance Party

The MC5 – Kick Out the Jams

Merle Haggard & The Strangers – Pride In What I Am

Merle Haggard & The Strangers – Same Train, A Different Time

The Meters – The Meters

Miles Davis – Miles Smiles

Miles Davis – In a Silent Way

Miles Davis – Nefertiti

The Millenium – Begin

Mississippi John Hurt – The Immortal Mississippi John Hurt

Moby Grape – Moby Grape

The Monkees – Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, LTD

Morton Subotnik – Silver Apples from the Moon

Muddy Waters – Live at Newport

Nat King Cole – Wild is Love

Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Everybody Knows This is Nowhere

New York Art Quartet feat. Amiri Baraka – New York Art Quartet

Noah Howard -- The Black Ark

Oliver Nelson – The Blues and the Abstract Truth

Ornette Coleman – This Is Our Music

Ornette Coleman – At the Golden Circle

Os Mutantes – Os Mutantes

Otis Redding – Otis Blue

Patty Waters – College Tour

Peter Brotzmann – Machine Gun

Pharoah Sanders – Karma

Randy Newman – Randy Newman

Ray Charles – The Genius Sings the Blues

Ray Charles – Modern Sounds In Country and Western

Red Krayola – The Parable of Arable Land

The Rollings Stones – Between the Buttons [UK Edition]

The Rolling Stones – Beggar's Banquet

Rod Stewart – The Rod Stewart Album

Roscoe Mitchell Sextet – Sound

Roger Miller – The Return of Roger Miller

Sam Rivers – Fuschia Swing Song

Scott Walker – Scott 4

Serge Gainsbourg – Initials B.B.

The Shaggs – Philosophy of the World

Sly & The Family Stone – Stand

The Soft Machine – The Soft Machine

The Sonics – Here are the Sonics!!!

Sonny Rollins – The Bridge

Sonny Rollins & Coleman Hawkins – Sonny Meets Hawk

Sonny Simmons – Music of the Spheres

Sonny & Linda Sharrock – Black Woman

Stan Getz – Focus

Steppenwolf – Steppenwolf

Steppenwolf – The Second

The Stooges – The Stooges

Sun Ra – Atlantis

Sun Ra – The Magic City

Terry Riley – A Rainbow In Curved Air

The United States of America – The United States of America

Vanilla Fudge – Vanilla Fudge

The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground

Wayne Shorter – Speak No Evil

The Weavers – Weaver's Almanac

Wes Montgomery – Smokin' at the Half Note

Wilson Pickett – The Exciting Wilson Pickett

The Who – The Who Sell Out

The Zombies – Begin Here

VA – A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

VA – Anthology of American Folk Music