[spectre] A tribute to Albert Ayler (free broadcast during 8 days)

[Louise Desrenards]

Here is an English version ( apologize for mistakes )
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Since February 15, 2005

" EVERY ALBERT'S BLUES "
One hour long broadcast

Albert Ayler's French story
In free listening during eight days
At Radio France-Culture Online
(Radio France)

Archives more 2005 Interviews
in Alexandre Héraud's serial:
" The heart of the matter "

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Can listen to the broadcast
Here (press "Ecoutez"):

www.radiofrance.fr/chaines/france-culture2/emissions/vifdusujet/

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He is Albert Ayler himself talking of his creative approach,
and others talking of his invention. His music.
His family, his wife, his friends, his enemies.
His local biographers and most famous amateurs.

Mixed Francophone and Anglophone listening and spoken

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E V E R Y   A L B E R T 'S   B L U E S

All the archives and the current unpublished
works along the incandescent
thread of the broadcast thrown
from 1966 to 2005

Produced and written by Simon Guibert
Directed by Yvon Croizier.


The famous revolutionary concert at Pleyel concert hall
which turned into a riot -1966, Paris.

Musics, documents and interviews of archives and unpublished:

The voices and\or the sounds of the musicians:
    Archie Shepp answering to Guibert ( 2005 )
    Don Cherry, Allan Silva, Sonny Muray, Cecil Taylor


The contemporary poet who today created a poem
specially to honour him in this issue
    Jacqueline Cahen,
    Leroi Jones ( Amiri Baraka)

The visionary revolt of his own reference:
  Arthur Rimbaud

His friends, French writer and Journalists:
  Michel Le Bris
  Delfeil De Ton

  Daniel Caux,
Member of the academy Charles Cros
(who led the concert of the Maeght Foundation).

The film-maker connected by friendship
with Albert Ayler during their military
service -1960, Orléans ( FR ):
  Alain Corneau

The Canadian artist and composer
just coming in Paris today and speaking of
his common creation with Ayler
at Soho for the film " New York Eye and Ear
Control ":
  Michael Snow

John Coltrane's Funeral, the ceremony played
by Albert Ayler to the posthumous demand
of the illustrious musician


The authentic death certificate delivered by the police
and unpublished works read by the comedians
  Dominique Colignon-Maurin and Camille Behr

And the voice of the cult broadcast director
    Alain Trutat


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Synopsis


    Albert Ayler [born 1936 in Cleveland ( Ohio ); died 1970 in Brooklyn
( New York )]is a Free Jazz saxophonist, soloist and chief who
pushed the popular music beyond itself in a desconstructivist attitude of
traditionnal references or associating them in new sound contexts, with a
critical freedom of the writing and harmonies beyond John Coltrane - whom
he had dazzled.

Revolutionary: because his dissonances and his attack of the
structures or thematics in Jazz -not only traditional but also of
the Free Jazz which had just preceded him- quite including
the singularity of the European folk, he anticipated the vision of the
disintegrating cultural value specially of the european heritage beyond the
movement No Future ( which appeared a little bit before his death ).

We begin hardly to feel in which point this music was inspired and
spiritualist in anticipated critical vision of the Viet Nam war and which
more anticipated the warlike global world of our times right now.
World about which we know the dissolved pacts and the vast
anthropological break, because we were the alive and unbelieving
witnesses of this. Apocalyptic music which today pursues raising
a problem to collective listening, for instance certain details remain still
pushed aside on the occasion of republications and albums of hommage.

With an alternately ironic, poetic and always subversive, creative energy or
in an extreme critical power, he pushed the musical plasticity to
its limits including the abstract explosion of the musical writing which
he had studied while a musician in the US Army orchestra in France.
He expressed himself in an internal style
which began the deconstruction of the formal jazz, with a so terrifying
sound to the ear of his contemporaries that he met only incomprehension and
gibes, violence and contempt.
Except from the part of the revolutionary activists
and in the avant-gardes.

The disappearance of Albert Ayler, "seer" - then found in Brooklyn, flooded
in the East River, on 1970 November 25th, at once was considered suspect.
What had been the role of Black Power - had he approached it?
Had he been murdered by CIA, FBI?

Had he been a victim by overdose?
Eliminated by a killer committed by Miles Davis -other legend?

Nothing of all?

Misunderstood, intense, torn by family unbalance between his wife and his
brother front of his parents, both creative partners, he doubtless could not
bear any more the emotional responsibility of his life
outside all the social, imaginary, political, musical balances, which he had
exceeded by creation. From another hand, his freedom did
not enable him to carry the musical heritage from Coltrane, whose last will
had been that he played music with Ornette Coleman at its funeral...

Two questions lead the concept of the broadcast:
Why his music stays subversive in our times?
Which thus is the true cause of his death?

S.G.

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Fast translation by L.D.
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