Whole generations of musicians and listeners experienced a dramatic and irrevocable awakening in the years after Albert Ayler's Spiritual Unity came out in 1964, and the record has a certain timeless ...

A LOT OF MUSIC writers rely too much on the crutch of comparison: “Artist X sounds like Y mixed with a little early-period W and some post-rehab, acoustic Z.” But I’ve got a worse problem, which is ...

Fifty years after the recording of Albert Ayler's Spiritual Unity, the music (and the man) are still causing tumult. It is not so much that free jazz hasn't been on our radar these past decades, it's ...