Holy Ghost is the first extended study of free jazz saxophonist
Albert Ayler, who is seen today as one of the most important
innovators in the history of jazz. Ayler synthesized children s
songs, La Marseillaise, American march music, and gospel hymns,
turning them into powerful, rambunctious, squalling free-jazz
improvisations. Some critics considered him a charlatan, others a
heretic for unhinging the traditions of jazz. Some simply
considered him insane. However, like most geniuses, Ayler was
misunderstood in his time. His divine messages of peace and love,
apocalyptic visions of flying saucers, and the strange account of
the days leading up to his being found floating in New York s East
River are central to his mystique, but, as Koloda points out, they
are a distraction, overshadowing his profound impact on the
direction of jazz as one of the most visible avant-garde players of
the 1960s and a major influence on others, including John Coltrane.
A musicologist, and friend of Don Ayler, Albert s troubled
trumpet-playing brother, Richard Koloda has spent over two decades
researching this book. He follows Ayler from his beginnings in his
native Cleveland to France, where he received his greatest acclaim,
to his untimely death on November 25, 1970, at age thirty-four, and
puts to rest speculation concerning his mysterious death. A feat of
biography and a major addition to jazz scholarship, Holy Ghost
offers a new appreciation of one of the most important and
controversial figures in the twentieth-century music.
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