By 1958, Albert Ayler and his horn had made some rounds: from boy prodigy to teenage member of Little Walter's Blues Band, from "Little Bird" of Cleveland to featured US Army Band soloist. Then he resolutely set out to forget everything he'd ever learned about how to properly play the sax so that he could really PLAY it -- unhinged, free from strictures of pitch and form, drawing on spirituals, folksong, marches, and other big whopping chunks of collective musical memory -- to channel symphonies to God out his horn.

Seeking nothing short of Truth in music, Albert Ayler became THE catalytic force in defining the sound of the tenor in Free Jazz, and was a heavy influence on John Coltrane's later work.

Holy Ghost is the first comprehensive attempt to build a monument in sound to Albert Ayler. The settings -- radio and TV sessions, studio demos, private recordings, live concert footage -- find his music at its most liberated. And with the sponsorship and assistance of Ayler's family, friends, and colleagues, Holy Ghost documents his never-before-heard first and last recordings, bookending rare and unissued music from every stage of his career.

Albert Ayler: heard ABOUT more than heard. But that's all about to change.

DISC 1

Herbert Katz Quintet w/Albert Ayler June 19, 1962 in Helsinki, Finland

1. Sonnymoon for Two

2. Summertime

3. On Green Dolphin Street

Cecil Taylor Quartet w/Albert Ayler November 16, 1962 in Copenhagen, Denmark

4. spoken intro

5. Four Albert Ayler Trio June 14, 1964 in New York City

6. untitled; ends with "Spirits"

7. Saints

8. Ghosts

DISC 2

Albert Ayler Trio June 14, 1964 in New York City

1. The Wizard

2. Children

3. Spirits

Albert Ayler Quartet September 3, 1964 in Copenhagen, Denmark

4. Spirits

5. Vibrations

6. untitled

7. Mothers

8. Children

9. Spirits

Burton Greene Quintet w/Albert Ayler February, 1966 in New York City

10. untitled

DISC 3

Albert Ayler Quintet April 16, 1966 in Cleveland, Ohio

1. spoken intro

2. Spirits Rejoice

3. D.C.

4. untitled

5. Our Prayer

6. spoken intro

7. untitled

8. Ghosts

Albert Ayler Quintet April 17, 1966 in Cleveland, Ohio

9. Spirits Rejoice

10. Medley: Prophet-Ghosts-Spiritual Bells

11. Our Prayer

DISC 4

Albert Ayler Quintet April 17, 1966 in Cleveland, Ohio

1. untitled/Truth Is Marching In

2. Spirits

3. Medley: Zion Hill - Spirits - Spiritual Bells

4. untitled

DISC 5

Albert Ayler Quintet November 3, 1966 in Berlin, Germany

1. spoken intro

2. Ghosts/Bells

3. Truth Is Marching In

4. Omega

5. Our Prayer Albert Ayler Quintet November 8, 1966 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands

6. spoken intro

7. Truth Is Marching In

8. Bells

9. Spirits Rejoice

10. Free Spiritual Musics Part IV

DISC 6

Albert Ayler Quintet June 30/July 1, 1967 in Newport, Rhode Island

1. Truth is Marching In/Omega

2. Japan/Universal Indians

3. Our Prayer

Albert Ayler Quartet July 21, 1967 ("Coltrane Funeral") in New York City

4. Love Cry/Truth Is Marching In/Our Prayer

Pharoah Sanders Ensemble w/Albert Ayler January 21, 1968 in New York City

5. Venus/Upper and Lower Egypt

Albert Ayler ca. late August, 1968 in New York area

6. untitled blues

7. untitled sermon

8. Thank God for Women

9. New Ghosts [demo fragments]

DISC 7

Don Ayler Sextet w/Albert Ayler January 11, 1969 in New York City

1. Prophet John

2. Judge Ye Not

Albert Ayler Quartet July 28, 1970 in Village Vacances Tourisme, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France

3. Mothers/Children

4. untitled

5. untitled

6. untitled

DISC 8

Albert Ayler ca. early December 1964 in Copenhagen, Denmark

Interview with Birger Jørgensen

Albert Ayler November 11, 1966 in Copenhagen, Denmark

Interview with Birger Jørgensen

Albert Ayler July 27, 1970 in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France

Interview with Daniel Caux

DISC 9

Albert Ayler July 25, 1970 in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France

Interview with Kiyoshi Koyama

Don Cherry

unknown date, 1971 in Paris, France

Interview with Daniel Caux

DISC 10

Bonus Disc w/Ayler as member of U.S. Army Band!