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My Name Is Albert Ayler

2005, Movie, NR, 79 mins

My Name Is Albert Ayler: Review

Jazz enthusiasts are the obvious audience for Swedish director Kasper Collin's impressionistic portrait of saxophonist Albert Ayler (1936-1970), but the story of his troubled life and premature death is engrossing without prior knowledge of his place in the history of experimental jazz. Born and raised in Ohio, Ayler (who pronounces his name "eye-ler," though many of his associates prefer "ail-er") learned to play alto sax from his father, Edward, and his musical ambitions... read more leave a comment