Albert Ayler Bells (White Vinyl)

Albert Ayler Bells (White Vinyl)Albert Ayler's short but definitive album Bells covers about 20 minutes of music from his legendary Town Hall N. Y. C. concert on May Day of 1965. It is not surprising to hear the angst and anguish in their music, considering it was made about five weeks after Black nationalist leader Malcolm X was assassinated. Ayler and his quintet blow their own horns in alert of the "new thing" in jazz coming on strong, with no apologies as to its fierce intent or

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and even if they don't have the star-making power that "1901" and "Lisztomania" did

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this band's songwriting makes for some of the most compelling hard rock out there

sweeping choir atop a cooking Latin jazz groove complete with montunos from Graves and a raw-boned solo from Washington (who is on fire throughout)

and Earth Wind and Fire as the choir extrapolates on the harmonics before Washington's skittering R&B-drenched solo