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Jazz Program
Sunday, July 14, 2013 | 10:00 to 12:00 | Specialty

New Artist Song Album Label Comments
* Black Host Ayler Children Life in the Sugar Candle Mines Northern-Spy
Don Cherry Divinity Tree Multikulti A&M
Carla Bley Goodbye Pork Pie Hat Big Band Theory ECM/Watt
Leroy Jenkins Albert Ayler (His Life Was Too Short) The Legend of Ai Glatson Black Saint
David Murray Flowers For Albert The Tip DWI
Roy Campbell / Henry Grimes / Marc Ribot / Chad Taylor Invocation Spiritual Unity Pi Recordings From the liner notes: "Spiritual Unity is a group dedicated to re-creating the collective musical process of Albert Ayler."
Albert Ayler Sun Watcher New Grass Verve
Giorgio Gaslini Truth Is Marching In Ayler's Wings Soul Note
Albert Ayler Again Comes The Rising Of The Sun Love Cry / The Last Album Impulse!
Albert Ayler / Don Cherry / John Tchiai / Roswell Rudd / Gary Peacock / Sunny Murray ITT New York Eye and Ear Control ESP-Disk From the Lliner notes: Michael Snow "used the image of pianist-composer Carla Bley as the inspiration for his art film 'New York Eye and Ear Control'. For the soundtrack he assembled a group of ESP artists in the New York loft of the late Canadian poet Paul Haines, and recorded them on July 17, 1964." Personnel: Ayler (tenor saxophone); Cherry (trumpet, coronet); Tchiai (alto saxophone); Peacock (bass); Murray (drums).
Cecil Payne Here's That Rainy Day Chic Boom, Live at the Jazz Showcase Delmark
Nicholas Payton Pleasant Dreams Nick @ Night Verve
Nicholas Payton St. James Infirmary Gumbo Nouveau Verve