Prophecy | ||||
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Live album by Albert Ayler | ||||
Released | 1975 | |||
Recorded | June 14, 1964 at the Cellar Café, West 90th Street, New York City | |||
Genre | Free jazz | |||
Length | 41:55 | |||
Label | ESP-Disk ESP 3030 | |||
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | |
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide |
Prophecy is a live album by American free jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler recorded in New York City in 1964 and first released in 1975 on the ESP-Disk label.
The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 3 stars stating "Ayler alternated the simple march-like themes with wild and very free improvisations which owe little if anything to the bop tradition, or even his contemporaries in the avant-garde. Ayler always had his own individual message, and his ESP sessions find him in consistently explorative form".
All About Jazz noted "Though the trio had honed a group sound and method comprising slow and loping or extremely fast themes; Murray's constant percussive chatter and vocal wailing providing an alternate pure-sound springboard; Peacock's constant harmonic filigree creating yet another aural web, these are presented in Prophecy as a much looser framework".
All compositions by Albert Ayler