Holy Ghost

by Albert Ayler

Tracklist

CD 1

  1. Sonnymoon for Two8:32
  2. Summertime6:56
  3. On Green Dolphin Street3:33
  4. [spoken introduction by broadcast announcer and Borge Roger Henrichsen]0:41
  5. Four21:50
  6. Spirits (incomplete)6:44
  7. Saints10:34
  8. Ghosts (incomplete)10:55

CD 2

  1. The Wizard6:56
  2. Children9:04
  3. Spirits (theme)0:31
  4. [spoken radio introduction]0:55
  5. Spirits8:43
  6. Vibrations8:22
  7. [tune Q]8:58
  8. Mothers7:52
  9. Children8:38
  10. Spirits (theme)1:26
  11. [untitled]8:56

CD 3

  1. [spoken introduction]1:02
  2. Spirits Rejoice4:39
  3. D.C.5:58
  4. [untitled minor waltz]7:03
  5. Our Prayer6:36
  6. [spoken introduction]1:12
  7. [F# tune]15:20
  8. Ghosts6:44
  9. Spirits Rejoice6:31
  10. Prophet / Ghosts / Spiritual Bells14:32
  11. Our Prayer / Spirits Rejoice9:42

CD 4

  1. [untitled] / Truth Is Marchin’ In15:40
  2. Spirits9:23
  3. Zion Hill12:39
  4. Spirits7:00
  5. Spiritual Bells3:53
  6. [F# tune]9:17

CD 5

  1. [concert announcement]1:09
  2. Ghosts / Bells11:15
  3. Truth Is Marching In7:07
  4. Omega3:48
  5. Our Prayer4:42
  6. [spoken introduction]1:25
  7. Truth Is Marching In11:13
  8. Bells5:34
  9. Spirits Rejoice10:51
  10. [Free Spiritual Music, Part IV]6:45

CD 6

  1. Truth Is Marching In / Omega9:08
  2. Japan / Universal Indians5:45
  3. Our Prayer8:25
  4. Love Cry / Truth Is Marching In / Our Prayer6:26
  5. Venus / Upper and Lower Egypt23:04
  6. [blues]6:09
  7. [sermon]0:55
  8. Thank God for Women10:20
  9. New Ghosts (demo fragments)7:09

CD 7

  1. Prophet John10:53
  2. Judge Ye Not10:19
  3. Mothers / Children8:41
  4. [untitled] (incomplete)14:18
  5. [C minor]5:21
  6. [F minor / C minor]10:38

CD 8

  1. [travel and plans]1:50
  2. [Holbaek]0:38
  3. [the New Blues]1:33
  4. [Christmastime stateside]1:13
  5. [a great change]1:34
  6. [traveling and Coltrane]1:00
  7. [drummers and Sunny Murray]1:41
  8. [a job to do]1:06
  9. [birth, family, first music]3:08
  10. [academy, the road, school]0:57
  11. [young professional and army]5:39
  12. [Sweden]4:39
  13. [New York]0:48
  14. [1964]1:25
  15. [frustration, sources]3:39
  16. [1966 tour and Coltrane]3:15
  17. [impulse! and Mary Maria]3:26
  18. [the artist’s life]1:30
  19. [question: LeRoi jones]0:46
  20. [question: “For John Coltrane”]1:09
  21. [question: socio‐political connections]3:18
  22. [question: instrumentation, engineering]4:15
  23. [choosing the players]6:45

CD 9

  1. [current activity]2:02
  2. [Antibes]1:06
  3. [Japan / Coltrane’s funeral]1:01
  4. [clubs]3:39
  5. [ahead of my time]1:41
  6. [home Lives: Brooklyn and Cleveland]1:27
  7. [impulse!, part 1: Hippies]1:20
  8. [“Space Music”]1:07
  9. [Don]0:45
  10. [“Thank God for Women”]0:46
  11. [blues & rhythm]1:17
  12. [copying my records]2:00
  13. [impulse!, part 2: New Grass]2:17
  14. [tone and “vibration”]1:07
  15. [Rollins, Coleman and Coltrane]4:08
  16. [Maeght group]0:56
  17. [serenity of life]0:36
  18. [childhood memories, part 1]1:59
  19. (Blairman enters)0:34
  20. [early professional career]1:02
  21. [childhood memories, part 2]1:08
  22. [Don’s music]3:46
  23. [“I Love America” and youth]1:05
  24. [Mary and golf]0:37
  25. [early relationships and Mary Maria]1:02
  26. [Japan work and warm weather]4:01
  27. [play solo]0:24
  28. [naming tunes]1:22
  29. [Charles Ives]0:25
  30. [influences]1:44
  31. [practicing]1:09
  32. [The Healing Force]0:51
  33. [diet and America]2:07
  34. [defining “improvisation”]0:44
  35. [Sonny Rollins, reactions, and Miles Davis]2:42
  36. [Newport ’67]2:29
  37. [New York: keeping to oneself] (Mary Maria joins)0:43
  38. [Don and Mocqui Cherry interview with Daniel Caux]22:11

CD 10

  1. Tenderly4:36
  2. Leap Frog3:15