Love Cry

by Albert Ayler

Love Cry cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: February 1968
  • Label: Impulse!
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 54:16
  • Community rating: 3.75/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Revisiting several of his older compositions with a slightly more structured approach, Albert Ayler's Impulse! Records debut remains a devastatingly powerful jazz statement. 'Love Cry' is fiercely energetic and deeply spiritual, balancing his wildly chaotic, intensely passionate saxophone shrieks with wonderfully triumphant, remarkably ritualistic free-jazz interplay.

Genres

Descriptors: improvisation, instrumental, ritualistic

Tracklist

  1. Love Cry (3:55)
  2. Ghosts (2:49)
  3. Omega (3:19)
  4. Dancing Flowers (2:24)
  5. Bells (3:09)
  6. Love Flower (3:32)
  7. Love Cry II (7:15)
  8. Zion Hill - Alternate Take (4:14)
  9. Universal Indians - Alternate Take (7:36)
  10. Zion Hill (6:08)
  11. Universal Indians - Full-length Version (9:50)

Credits

  • Albert Ayler - primary artist, tenor saxophone, voice, written-by
  • Alan Silva - bass
  • Robert & Barbara Flynn - design [cover]
  • Joe Lebow - design [liner]
  • Milford Graves - drums
  • Bob Arnold - engineer
  • Call Cobbs - harpsichord
  • Frank Kofsky - liner notes
  • Chuck Stewart - photography by
  • Bob Thiele - producer
  • Donald Ayler - trumpet

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