Albert Ayler - Out There Avant Garde Jazz Podcast

This week's episode of the Out There Avant Garde Jazz Podcast is about Albert Ayler.  Ayler's uncompromising approach to the saxophone and to music in general took jazz into the territory of pure freedom to an unprecedented degree.  In a way it seems to me that making music was secondary to Ayler's true purpose: communion with a higher power through sound.  The episode features music from the various albums Ayler released during his tragically short life, as well as a recording of his performance at John Coltrane's funeral.  Approach it with an open mind, and enjoy an hour or so of some incredible, stimulating, passionate music, like nothing that had come before it.