The Last Album

by Albert Ayler

The Last Album cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1971
  • Label: Impulse!
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 42:55
  • Community rating: 3.87/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Released posthumously, this recording captures the avant-garde saxophonist expanding his boundary-pushing free jazz into vocal and R&B territories. The eclectic sessions mix chaotic, spiritual improvisation with quirky spoken word and electric blues explorations.

Genres

Descriptors: improvisation, rhythmic, avant-garde, improvised, dissonant, long-form

Tracklist

  1. Untitled Duet (4:33)
  2. Again Comes The Rising Of The Sun (6:53)
  3. All Love (8:57)
  4. Toiling (5:05)
  5. Desert Blood (5:58)
  6. Birth Of Mirth (5:20)
  7. Water Music (6:07)

Credits

  • Albert Ayler - primary artist, chanter [bagpipe chanter], tenor saxophone, vocals, vocals, tenor saxophone, bagpipe tenor saxophone, vocal
  • Stafford James - double bass [bass], double bass
  • Bill Folwell - double bass [bass], electric bass [fender], written-by, double bass [bass], bass [fender], bass guitar double bass
  • Muhammad Ali - drums
  • Henry Vestine - electric guitar, written-by, guitar [guitars]
  • Lorel Michel - illustration
  • Bobby Few - piano
  • Raymond Patterson - membranophone
  • Mary Parks - Written-By
  • Mary Maria - Vocals [Vocal]

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