Detailed item info | Track listing | DISC 1: HOLY GHOST: 1. Sonnymoon For Two 2. Summertime 3. On Green Dolphin Street 4. Spoken Intro 5. Four 6. Untitled (Saints) 7. Saints 8. Ghost
DISC 2: HOLY GHOST: 1. Wizard, The 2. Children 3. Spirits (Theme) 4. Spoken Intro 5. Spirits 6. Vibrations 7. Untitled 8. Mothers 9. Children 10. Spirits 11. Untitled
DISC 3: HOLY GHOST: 1. Spoken Intro 2. Spirits Rejoice 3. D.C. 4. Untitled 5. Our Prayer 6. Spoken Intro 7. Untitled 8. Ghosts 9. Spirits Rejoice 10. Prophet/Ghosts/Spiritual Bells 11. Our Prayer
DISC 4: HOLY GHOST: 1. Untitled/Truth Is Marching In 2. Spirits 3. Zion Hill 4. Spirits 5. Spiritual Bells 6. Untitled
DISC 5: HOLY GHOST: 1. Spoken Intro 2. Ghosts/Bells 3. Truth Is Marching In 4. Omega 5. Our Prayer 6. Spoken Intro 7. Truth Is Marching In 8. Bells 9. Spirits Rejoice 10. Free Spiritual Musics Part IV
DISC 6: HOLY GHOST: 1. Truth Is Marching in/Omega 2. Japan/Universal Indians 3. Our Prayer 4. Love Cry/Truth Is Marching in/Our Prayer 5. Venus/Upper and Lower Egypt 6. Untitled Blues 7. Untitled Sermon 8. Thank God For Women 9. New Ghosts - (demo fragments)
DISC 7: HOLY GHOST: 1. Prophet John 2. Judge Ye Not 3. Mothers/Children 4. Untitled 5. Untitled 6. Untitled
DISC 8: HOLY GHOST: 1. Interview With Birger Jorgensen: Travel and Plans 2. Holbaek 3. (The) New Blues 4. Christmastime Stateside 5. (A) Great Change 6. Traveling and Coltrane 7. Drummers and Sunny Murray 8. (A) Job to Do 9. Interview With Daniel Caux: Birth, Family, First Music 10. Academy, The Road, School 11. Young Professional and Army 12. Sweden 13. New York 14. 1964 15. Frustration, Sources 16. 1966 Tour and Coltrane 17. Impulse and Mary Maria 18. (The) Artist's Life 19. Question: LeRoi Jones 20. Question: "For John Coltrane" 21. Question: Socio-Political Connections 22. Instrumentation, Engineering 23. Choosing the Players
DISC 9: HOLY GHOST: 1. Interview With Kiyoshi Koyama: Current Activity 2. Antibes 3. Japan/Coltrane's Funeral 4. Clubs 5. Ahead of My Time 6. Home Lives: Brooklyn and Cleveland 7. Impulse, Pt 1: Hippies 8. "Space Music" 9. Don 10. "Thank God For Women" 11. Blues & Rhythm 12. Copying My Records 13. Impulse Pt. 2, New Grass 14. Tone and "Vibration" 15. Rollins, Coleman and Coltrane 16. Maeght Group 17. Serenity of Life 18. Childhood Memories, Pt. 1 19. (Blairman Enters) 20. Early Professional Career 21. Childhood Memories, Pt. 2 22. Don's Music 23. "I Love America" And Youth 24. Mary and Golf 25. Early Relationships and Mary Maria 26. Japan Work and Warm Weather 27. Play Solo 28. Naming Tunes 29. Charles Ives 30. Influences 31. Practicing 32. (The) Healing Force 33. Diet and America 34. Defining "Improvisation" 35. Sonny Rollins, Reactions and Miles Davis 36. Newport '67 37. Keeping to Oneself (Mary Maria Joins) 38. Don & Mocqui Cherry Inverview With Daniel Caux
| | Details | | Contributing artists: | Cecil Taylor, Don Cherry, Gary Peacock, Pharoah Sanders, Sunny Murray | | Producer: | Ben Young (Compilation) | | Distributor: | NAIL Distribution | | Recording type: | Mixed | | Recording mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
| | Album notes | The deluxe box HOLY GHOST features 9 CDs of rare & unissued recordings and includes a 208 pg. full-color hardbound book with new essays by Amiri Baraka, Val Wilmer & other Ayler scholars, unpublished photos & family memorabilia, artist testimonials of first encounters with Ayler's music and an exhaustive chronology of Ayler performance activities. The set is housed in a lavish Spirit Box cast from a handcarved original. Also includes a 10th bonus disc featuring Albert Ayler as member of U.S. Army Band! Personnel include: Albert Ayler (vocals, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone); Mary Parks (vocals); Michel Sampson (violin); Jimmy Lyons (alto saxophone); Frank Wright, Pharoah Sanders, Sam Rivers (tenor saxophone); Donald Ayler, Chris Capers (trumpet); Don Cherry (cornet); Call Cobbs (piano, harpsichord); Dave Burrell, Burton Greene, Cecil Taylor (piano); Bill Folwell (double bass, bass guitar); Gary Peacock, Richard Davis , Sirone, Steve Tintweiss, Mutawef Shaheed (double bass); Milford Graves, Rashied Ali, Roger Blank, Ronald Shannon Jackson, Sunny Murray, Beaver Harris, Bernard Purdie (drums); Herbert Katz Quintet. Liner Note Authors: Amiri Baraka; Valerie Wilmer; Marc Chaloin; Ben Young; Daniel Caux; Carl Woideck. Recording information: 1962 - 1970.
| | Editorial reviews | [I]t still sounds utterly unique, utterly compelling, simultaneously familiar and alien. The Wire
4 stars out of 5 - HOLY GHOST, trimmings and all, is a most collectable memorial, and one of the phonographic events of the year. Uncut
5 stars out of 5 - HOLY GHOST is his rich, just memorial: a box of revelations that add up to a resurrection. Mojo
Ayler's unhinged sound was shocking in the '60s, and it still is - often weirdly beautiful, always deeply human. Spin
Included in Rolling Stone's The 10 Best Reissues & Anthologies Of 2004 - [H]e blows like a man sure of his eventual reward. Here it is. Rolling Stone
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