Albert Ayler: New Grass - VINYL LP

Albert Ayler: New Grass - VINYL LPTitle: New Grass Artist: Albert Ayler Label: Third Man Records Product Type: VINYL LP UPC: 813547028259 Genre: Jazz Release Date: 2020 07 10 Number of Discs: 1 Additional Details: 180 GRAM VINYL Albert Ayler's 1969 album New Grass has been misunderstood from the day of it's release. The album finds Ayler experimenting with soul music and digging back into his R&B roots (he started his career playing saxophone with Chicago bluesman Little Walter),

Title: New Grass
Artist: Albert Ayler
Label: Third Man Records
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 813547028259
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 2020-07-10
Number of Discs: 1
Additional Details: 180 GRAM VINYL

Albert Ayler's 1969 album New Grass has been misunderstood from the day of it's release. The album finds Ayler experimenting with soul music and digging back into his R&B roots (he started his career playing saxophone with Chicago bluesman Little Walter), fusing it with the avant-garde free jazz (the one element of the record which garnered consistent praise) and adding the vocals of Rose Marie McCoy, The Soul Singers and Ayler himself. As if predicting the divisiveness of the record to follow, Ayler speaks directly to the listener and explains that New Grass is nothing like his albums before - that it is of 'a different dimension of his life' - in the album opener 'Message from Albert.'New Grass deserves reconsideration, if not for the heavy grooves and surprising arrangements, then for it's bravery in challenging norms of the time; by the '60s, jazz was well-accepted as a uniquely American art form, while soul as a genre was very much still seen as primitive. Ayler melds them together and creates something novel, adventurous, and completely his own. At the time of it's release, despite it's divisive reception, New Grass helped break down the unnecessary walls dividing genres and revealed music's potential freedoms. The album has gone on to influence generations of Jazz, R&B, Funk, Hip Hop, Post Punk, No Wave and unshrinking artists like Pharaoh Sanders, Alice Coltrane, Funkadelic, Jungle Brothers, Red Krayola, Sonic Youth and Mark E. Smith.Third Man Records can't recommend this record highly enough. We are confident that it won't take but one listen for you to understand New Grass is an undeniable healing force.

Tracks:
1.1 Message from Albert / New Grass
1.2 New Generation
1.3 Sun Watcher
1.4 New Ghosts
1.5 Heart Love
1.6 Everybody's Movin
1.7 Free at Last