Ayler Records
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Ayler Records is a record label
which specializes in free jazz
and improvised music recordings.
Founded in 2000
in Sweden by Jan Ström and painter Åke Bjurhamn, it has gained recognition among free jazz
fans over the years by releasing both archive and contemporary recordings from artists as diverse as Albert Ayler
, Jimmy Lyons
, Noah Howard, Peter Brötzmann
, William Parker or Charles Gayle
, as well as documenting the Scandinavian free jazz scene.
In 2009, Ayler Records moved to France where it is now operated by Stéphane Berland who had joined the label in 2005, bringing with him the will to open the catalogue to forms of improvised music in less direct relationship with the free jazz history, while remaining faithful to the original spirit.
Record label
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which specializes in free jazz
Free jazz
Free jazz is an approach to jazz music that was first developed in the 1950s and 1960s. Though the music produced by free jazz pioneers varied widely, the common feature was a dissatisfaction with the limitations of bebop, hard bop, and modal jazz, which had developed in the 1940s and 1950s...
and improvised music recordings.
Founded in 2000
2000 in music
See also:* 2000 in music Record labels established in 2000-Events:*January – Gary Glitter is released from jail, two months before his sentence for sexual offences ends.*January 1**John Tavener is knighted in the New Year's Honours List....
in Sweden by Jan Ström and painter Åke Bjurhamn, it has gained recognition among free jazz
Free jazz
Free jazz is an approach to jazz music that was first developed in the 1950s and 1960s. Though the music produced by free jazz pioneers varied widely, the common feature was a dissatisfaction with the limitations of bebop, hard bop, and modal jazz, which had developed in the 1940s and 1950s...
fans over the years by releasing both archive and contemporary recordings from artists as diverse as Albert Ayler
Albert Ayler
Albert Ayler was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist, singer and composer.Ayler was among the most primal of the free jazz musicians of the 1960s; critic John Litweiler wrote that "never before or since has there been such naked aggression in jazz" He possessed a deep blistering tone—achieved...
, Jimmy Lyons
Jimmy Lyons
Jimmy Lyons was an alto saxophone player. He is best known for his long tenure in the Cecil Taylor Unit.-Biography:...
, Noah Howard, Peter Brötzmann
Peter Brötzmann
Peter Brötzmann is a German artist and free jazz saxophonist and clarinetist.Brötzmann is among the most important European free jazz musicians. His rough, lyrical timbre is easily recognized on his many recordings.-Early life:...
, William Parker or Charles Gayle
Charles Gayle
Charles Gayle is a free jazz saxophonist, pianist, bass clarinetist, and percussionist.-Biography:Charles Gayle was born in Buffalo, New York. Some of Gayle's history is unclear. He was apparently homeless for approximately twenty years, playing saxophone on street corners and subway platforms...
, as well as documenting the Scandinavian free jazz scene.
In 2009, Ayler Records moved to France where it is now operated by Stéphane Berland who had joined the label in 2005, bringing with him the will to open the catalogue to forms of improvised music in less direct relationship with the free jazz history, while remaining faithful to the original spirit.
Releases
(Ayler Records catalog is composed of both cd releases - in bold - and download-only releases)- 001 Noah Howard Quartet - Live At The Unity TempleUnity TempleUnity Temple is a Unitarian Universalist church in Oak Park, Illinois, and the home of the Unity Temple Unitarian Universalist Congregation. It was designed by the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and built between 1905 and 1908. Unity Temple is considered to be one of Wright's most important...
- 002 Arthur Doyle & Sunny MurraySunny MurrayJames Marcellus Arthur "Sunny" Murray is one of the pioneers of the free jazz style of drumming.-Biography:...
- Live at Glenn Miller Café - 003 No School - No School
- 004 Peter BrötzmannPeter BrötzmannPeter Brötzmann is a German artist and free jazz saxophonist and clarinetist.Brötzmann is among the most important European free jazz musicians. His rough, lyrical timbre is easily recognized on his many recordings.-Early life:...
Trio - Live at Nefertiti - 005 Steve SwellSteve SwellSteve Swell is an American free jazz trombonist and composer.Swell studied at Jersey City State College before moving to New York City in 1975 where he began his musical life, playing in top 40 bands, salsa bands, big bands and performed on Broadway in Bob Fosse's "Dancin""...
's Nation Of We - Live at the Bowery Poetry ClubBowery Poetry ClubThe Bowery Poetry Club is a New York City poetry performance space founded by Bob Holman in 2002. Located at 308 Bowery, between Bleecker and Houston Streets in Manhattan's East Village, the BPC provides a home base for established and upcoming artists... - 006 Michael Marcus Trio - Ithem
- 007 John Stevens Trio - Live at The Plough
- 008 The Fish - Live at Olympic Café
- 009 Exuberance - Live at Vision FestivalVision FestivalThe Vision Festival is the world's premier festival of experimental music , art, film and dance. Inspired by the 1984 and '88 Sound Unity Festivals. It was a direct out growth of the Improvisors Collective 1994 and '95. In 1996, Dancer-choreographer Patricia Nicholson Parker, initiated the First...
- 010 Return Of The New Thing - Traque
- 011 Joel Futterman - Possibilities
- 012 Jonas KullhammarJonas Kullhammar' is an Swedish jazz composer, saxophonist and is one of Sweden's most promising jazz musicians. Since 1998 his main group has been Jonas Kullhammar Quartet, and he has participated on over 100 records as a sideman....
/ Peter Janson / Paal Nilssen-LovePaal Nilssen-LovePaal Nilssen-Love is a Norwegian drummer active in the jazz and free jazz genres.Nilssen-Love was raised at a jazz club in Stavanger, run by his mother, and his father, who was also a drummer...
- Live at Glenn Miller Café - 013 Lars-Göran Ulander Trio - Live at Glenn Miller Café
- 014 Joe Morris / Charles Downs / Louie Belogenis - The Flow
- 015 Charles GayleCharles GayleCharles Gayle is a free jazz saxophonist, pianist, bass clarinetist, and percussionist.-Biography:Charles Gayle was born in Buffalo, New York. Some of Gayle's history is unclear. He was apparently homeless for approximately twenty years, playing saxophone on street corners and subway platforms...
Trio - Live at Glenn Miller Café - 016 Tom Heurich Trio - Hotzen Session
- 017/18 Anders Gahnold Trio - Flowers for Johnny
- 019 Frode Gjerstad Trio - The Other Side
- 020 SURD - Live at Glenn Miller Café
- 021/22 Bengt Frippe Nordström - The Environmental Control Office
- 023 Sonny SimmonsSonny SimmonsHuey "Sonny" Simmons is an American jazz musician.He grew up in Oakland, California, where he began playing the english horn. At age 16 he took up the alto saxophone, which became his primary instrument...
Trio - Live at Knitting FactoryKnitting FactoryThe Knitting Factory is a music venue and concert house with locations in Brooklyn, Boise, Reno, and Spokane. The club originally specialized in jazz and experimental music and has expanded to showcasing all genres of music, performing arts and comedy.... - 024 Hamid DrakeHamid DrakeHamid Drake is an American jazz drummer and percussionist. He lives in Chicago, IL but spends much of his time traveling around the world for concerts and studio dates....
& Assif Tsahar - Soul Bodies, vol.1 - 025 Hamid DrakeHamid DrakeHamid Drake is an American jazz drummer and percussionist. He lives in Chicago, IL but spends much of his time traveling around the world for concerts and studio dates....
& Assif Tsahar - Live at Glenn Miller Café, Soul Bodies, vol.2 - 026 Jemeel MoondocJemeel MoondocJemeel Moondoc is a jazz saxophonist who plays alto saxophone. He is a proponent of a highly improvisational style....
Trio - Live at Glenn Miller Café - 027 François Carrier Quartet - NohNoh, or - derived from the Sino-Japanese word for "skill" or "talent" - is a major form of classical Japanese musical drama that has been performed since the 14th century. Many characters are masked, with men playing male and female roles. Traditionally, a Noh "performance day" lasts all day and...
- 028 Henry GrimesHenry GrimesHenry Grimes is a jazz double bassist, violinist, and poet.After more than a decade of activity and performance, notably as a leading bassist in free jazz, Grimes completely disappeared from the music scene by 1970...
Trio - Live at The KeravaKeravaKerava is a town and municipality in Finland.It is located in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the Uusimaa region. The town has a population of and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is...
Jazz Festival - 029 Luther ThomasLuther Thomasthumb|right|upright=2|Dizzazz in June 1981. From left to right : Luther Thomas , Danny Petroni , Donald Nicks , Marvin Neal , Warren Benbow , John K. Mulkerin and Billy "Spaceman" Paterson...
& Rune Larsen - Busking in ChristianiaFreetown ChristianiaNot to be confused with Christiania, Norway, another name for Oslo.Christiania, also known as Freetown Christiania is a self-proclaimed autonomous neighbourhood of about 850 residents, covering 34 hectares in the borough of Christianshavn in the Danish capital Copenhagen... - 030 Exploding Customer - Live at Glenn Miller Café
- 031 Exploding Customer - Live at TampereTampereTampere is a city in southern Finland. It is the most populous inland city in any of the Nordic countries. The city has a population of , growing to approximately 300,000 people in the conurbation and over 340,000 in the metropolitan area. Tampere is the third most-populous municipality in...
Jazz Happening - 032 Per Henrik Wallin Trio - The StockholmStockholmStockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
Tapes - 033 Albert AylerAlbert AylerAlbert Ayler was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist, singer and composer.Ayler was among the most primal of the free jazz musicians of the 1960s; critic John Litweiler wrote that "never before or since has there been such naked aggression in jazz" He possessed a deep blistering tone—achieved...
Quartet - The CopenhagenCopenhagenCopenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
Tapes - 034 The Electrics - Live at Glenn Miller Café
- 035 The Electrics - Chain of Accidents
- 036-40 Jimmy LyonsJimmy LyonsJimmy Lyons was an alto saxophone player. He is best known for his long tenure in the Cecil Taylor Unit.-Biography:...
- The Box Set - 041 Luther ThomasLuther Thomasthumb|right|upright=2|Dizzazz in June 1981. From left to right : Luther Thomas , Danny Petroni , Donald Nicks , Marvin Neal , Warren Benbow , John K. Mulkerin and Billy "Spaceman" Paterson...
Quartet - Finally! Total Unity in 3 Phases - 042 Tommy Koverhult Trio - Trane to Taube
- 043 Michal Osowski Collective - Live at White Elephant
- 044 William Parker Trio - ...and William Danced
- 045 Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut Quintet - Allemansratten
- 046 Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut - Live at Tonic
- 047 Jemeel MoondocJemeel MoondocJemeel Moondoc is a jazz saxophonist who plays alto saxophone. He is a proponent of a highly improvisational style....
Tentet - Jus Grew Orchestra, Live at the Vision FestivalVision FestivalThe Vision Festival is the world's premier festival of experimental music , art, film and dance. Inspired by the 1984 and '88 Sound Unity Festivals. It was a direct out growth of the Improvisors Collective 1994 and '95. In 1996, Dancer-choreographer Patricia Nicholson Parker, initiated the First...
2001 - 048/49 Mongezi FezaMongezi FezaMongezi Feza was a South African jazz trumpet player and flautist.-Biography:Feza was born in Queenstown, South Africa in 1945. A member of The Blue Notes, he left South Africa in 1964 and settled in Europe, living in London and Copenhagen. As a trumpeter, his influences included hard bopper...
- Free Jam - 050/51 Rashied AliRashied AliRashied Ali, born Robert Patterson was an American free jazz and avant-garde jazz drummer best known for playing with John Coltrane in the last years of Coltrane's life.-Biography:...
& Arthur Rhames - The Dynamic Duo, Remember Trane and Bird - 052 Fred Anderson & Harrison Bankhead - The Great VisionVision FestivalThe Vision Festival is the world's premier festival of experimental music , art, film and dance. Inspired by the 1984 and '88 Sound Unity Festivals. It was a direct out growth of the Improvisors Collective 1994 and '95. In 1996, Dancer-choreographer Patricia Nicholson Parker, initiated the First...
Concert - 053 Bayashi - Help Is On Its Way
- 054 Martin Küchen Trio - Live at Glenn Miller Café
- 055 Firehouse - Live at Glenn Miller Café
- 056 Heinz Geisser & Guerino MazzolaGuerino MazzolaGuerino Mazzola is a Swiss mathematician, musicologist, jazz pianist as well as book writer.He graduated at the University of Zürich in Mathematics, Theoretical Physics and Crystallography and completed his PhD in Mathematics in 1971. In 1980, he habilitated in Algebraic Geometry and...
- Live at Airegin - 057 The Fish - Live at Jazz à Mulhouse
- 058 Michael Thieke / Michael Griener / Christian Weber - The Amazing Dr. ClitterhouseThe Amazing Dr. ClitterhouseThe Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse is a 1938 American crime film starring Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor and Humphrey Bogart. It was directed by Anatole Litvak for Warner Bros. and written by John Wexley and John Huston, based on the first play written by short-story writer Barré Lyndon, which ran for...
- 059 Rune Larsen & Adam Nordin - Northern Lights Blues
- 060 Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut - The Williamsburg Sessions II
- 061 Michel Lambert - Unclouded Day
- 062 Zero Point - Plays Albert AylerAlbert AylerAlbert Ayler was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist, singer and composer.Ayler was among the most primal of the free jazz musicians of the 1960s; critic John Litweiler wrote that "never before or since has there been such naked aggression in jazz" He possessed a deep blistering tone—achieved...
- 063 Exploding Customer - At Your Service
- 064 Luther ThomasLuther Thomasthumb|right|upright=2|Dizzazz in June 1981. From left to right : Luther Thomas , Danny Petroni , Donald Nicks , Marvin Neal , Warren Benbow , John K. Mulkerin and Billy "Spaceman" Paterson...
& John Lindberg - Spirit of St. Louis - 065 Niels Jørgen Steen’s Beatkapell - The Åhus Concert
- 066 Meditations on Albert AylerAlbert AylerAlbert Ayler was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist, singer and composer.Ayler was among the most primal of the free jazz musicians of the 1960s; critic John Litweiler wrote that "never before or since has there been such naked aggression in jazz" He possessed a deep blistering tone—achieved...
- Live at Glenn Miller Café - 067 New Generation Quartet - Dances
- 068 Stephen Gauci's Stockholm Conference - Live at Glenn Miller Café, part 3
- 069 Mathias Rissi / Guerino MazzolaGuerino MazzolaGuerino Mazzola is a Swiss mathematician, musicologist, jazz pianist as well as book writer.He graduated at the University of Zürich in Mathematics, Theoretical Physics and Crystallography and completed his PhD in Mathematics in 1971. In 1980, he habilitated in Algebraic Geometry and...
/ Heinz Geisser - Herakleitos - 070 Jeff Marx & Jeff "Siege" Siegel - Dreamstuff
- 071 Szilárd Mezei Quintet - As You
- 072 Mark O'Leary / Peter Friis-Nielsen / Stefan Pasborg - Støj
- 073 Frode Gjerstad / Kevin Norton / Paul Rogers - Antioch
- 074 Frode Gjerstad Trio - A Sound Sight
- 075 Anders Gahnold / William Parker / Hamid DrakeHamid DrakeHamid Drake is an American jazz drummer and percussionist. He lives in Chicago, IL but spends much of his time traveling around the world for concerts and studio dates....
- The Last Dances - 076 Pandelis Karayorgis Trio - Carameluia
- 077/78 By Any Means (Rashied AliRashied AliRashied Ali, born Robert Patterson was an American free jazz and avant-garde jazz drummer best known for playing with John Coltrane in the last years of Coltrane's life.-Biography:...
/ Charles GayleCharles GayleCharles Gayle is a free jazz saxophonist, pianist, bass clarinetist, and percussionist.-Biography:Charles Gayle was born in Buffalo, New York. Some of Gayle's history is unclear. He was apparently homeless for approximately twenty years, playing saxophone on street corners and subway platforms...
/ William Parker) - Live at Crescendo - 079 Gyldene Trion - Live at Glenn Miller Café
- 080 Copperhead Trio - Labyrinths
- 081 Mark O'Leary & Han BenninkHan BenninkHan Bennink is a Dutch jazz drummer and percussionist. On occasion his recordings have featured his playing on clarinet, violin, banjo and piano....
- Television - 082 New Language Collaborative - Unified Fields
- 083 Abdelhaï Bennani Trio - There Starts the Future
- 084 Marc Edwards & Slipstream Time Travel - Ode to a Dying Planet
- 085 Eric Zinman & Laurence Cook - Double Action
- 086 Bengt Frippe Nordström - Frippe's Protocol
- 087 RealTime - In The Shaman's Pocket
- 088 Niklas Barnö / Joel Grip / Didier Lasserre - Snus
- 089 Anders Gahnold Trio - Live at Glenn Miller Café
- 090 Correction - Two Nights in April
- 091 Correction - Correction
- 092 Free Unfold Trio - Ballades
- 093/94 Stephen Gauci's Stockholm Conference - Live at Glenn Miller Café
- 095 Dennis GonzálezDennis GonzálezDennis González is a jazz musician, poet, visual artist and music educator based in Dallas, Texas....
' Yells At Eels - The Great Bydgoszcz Concert - 096 Joëlle LéandreJoëlle LéandreJoëlle Léandre is a double bassist, vocalist, and composer active in new music and free improvisation....
/ François Houle / Raymond Strid - Last Seen Headed, Live at Sons d'Hiver - 097 Nuts - Symphony for Old and New Dimensions
- 098-100 Benjamin Duboc - Primare Cantus
- 101 Jair-Rohm Parker WellsJair-Rohm Parker WellsJair-Rôhm Parker Wells is an American free jazz bassist , composer and conceptualist. He is one of the founding members of the improvising band Machine Gun which featured Thomas Chapin...
Trio - Brotherly Love in Philadelphia - 102 Zed Trio - Lost Transitions
- 103 Mark O'Leary & Sunny MurraySunny MurrayJames Marcellus Arthur "Sunny" Murray is one of the pioneers of the free jazz style of drumming.-Biography:...
- Ode to Albert Ayler - 104 Eyal Maoz & Asaf Sirkis - Elementary Dialogues
- 105 Christoph Gallio / Dominique Girod / Dieter Ulrich - Places
- 106 François Carrier Trio+1 - Entrance 3
- 107 Flow Trio (Louie Belogenis / Joe Morris / Charles Downs) - Set Theory, Live at the Stone
- 108 Arthur Rhames & Charles Telerant - Two in NYC
- 109 Abdelhaï Bennani / Benjamin Duboc / Didier Lasserre - In Side
- 110 Didier Lasserre Trio - Live at l'Atelier Tampon
- 111 Hoots and Roots (Maggie Nicols / Ken HyderKen HyderKen Hyder is a Scottish jazz fusion drummer and percussionist born in Dundee, Scotland, perhaps best-known for combining folk, ethnic and Celtic music with jazz...
) - Life and Death - 112 Jean-Marc Foltz / Matt Turner / Bill Carrothers - To the Moon
- 113 Luís Lopes' Humanization 4tet - Electricity
- 114 Jacob William Quartet - Secondary Deviations
- 115 Mario Rechtern / Eric Zinman / Jane Wang / Laurence Cook - Wakte Oglaka
- 116 Bengt Frippe Nordström - Creative Addition
- 117 Dennis GonzálezDennis GonzálezDennis González is a jazz musician, poet, visual artist and music educator based in Dallas, Texas....
' Yells At Eels - Cape of Storms - 118 Marc DucretMarc DucretMarc Ducret is a jazz, and avant garde, guitarist, self-taught, who is most well known for his work with saxophonist Tim Berne.-Selected discography:As leader2011 Tower, vol.2...
- Tower, vol.1 - 119 Marc DucretMarc DucretMarc Ducret is a jazz, and avant garde, guitarist, self-taught, who is most well known for his work with saxophonist Tim Berne.-Selected discography:As leader2011 Tower, vol.2...
- Tower, vol.2 - 122 Szilárd Mezei Wind Quartet - Innen
- 123 Daunik Lazro - Some Other Zongs