The portrait that emerges is refreshingly clear-eyed yet highly insular.
My Name Is Albert Ayler
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Sweden · 2006
1h 19m
Director Kasper Collin
Starring Donald Ayler, Edward Ayler, Bill Folwell, Elliott Landy
Genre Documentary, Music
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The prophetic jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler, who today is seen as one of the most important innovators in jazz, was obsessed with his radical music and by the thought that people one day would understand it. In 1962 he recorded his first album in Sweden. Eight years later he was found dead in New York's East River, aged 34. (TCM)
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Kasper Collin's melancholy, beautiful feature debut does more than just chronicle this undervalued musician; it brings Ayler and his message of spiritual unity back to life.
My Name is Albert Ayler brings a sense of logic and humanity to a man whose music was as unsettling as it was untethered to the tenets of jazz.
The New Yorker by Richard Brody
Though the end of the film seems rushed—its seventy-nine minutes could have gone on for hours—it is nonetheless a cause for rejoicing.
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