Label: Impulse! - Catalog #: AS-9175 (initial release)
Location: The Record Plant, New York, USA
Recording Date: 1968/09/05 and 1968/09/06
Some of the takes recorded later (other place?) (involving Cobbs, Purdie and Folwell?)
For sure, the horns and singing things were overdubbed at a later time, with or without Ayler.
Personnel Extended Data:
Ayler additionally performs recitation and whistling.
Purdie and Cobbs out on #1
Overddub on #1, #2, #5-#7, included:
Burt Collins, Joe Newman (tp)
Garnett Brown (tb)
Seldon Powell (ts, fl)
Buddy Lucas (barsx)
Bert DeCoteaux (arr)
The Soul Singers (voc) (Rose Marie McCoy and Mary "Maria" Parks) - out on #1
Additional:
The most controversial Ayler's record, some people called this a commercial compromission.
If not the best of his work, it's still an interesting and original session.
A later edition has been afflicted with one of the most hideous and inadequate cover in existence http://ayler.org/albert/html/newgen.html.
More material from this/these (?) session(s) are to be find in the Holy Ghost box set.
Annotation last modified on 2007-07-05 08:59 UTC.