New York Eye and Ear Control

New York Eye and Ear Control
Studio album by Albert Ayler et al.
Released	1965
Recorded	July 17, 1964
Genre	Free jazz
Length	43:19
Label	ESP-Disk
Albert Ayler chronology
Spiritual Unity (1964) New York Eye and Ear Control (1964) Ghosts (1964)

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Allmusic	Allmusic link
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[1]

New York Eye and Ear Control is an album of group improvisations recorded by an augmented version of Albert Ayler's group to provide the soundtrack for Michael Snow's 1964 film of the same name.^[2]

Critics have compared the album with the key free jazz recordings: Ornette Coleman's earlier Free Jazz and John Coltrane's subsequent Ascension. John Litweiler regards it favourably in comparison because of its "free motion of tempo (often slow, usually fast); of ensemble density (players enter and depart at will); of linear movement".^[3] Ekkehard Jost places it in the same company and comments on "extraordinarily intensive give-and-take by the musicians" and "a breadth of variation and differentiation on all musical levels".^[4]

Track listing

1. "Don's Dawn" (Cherry/Peacock) – 0:57
2. "AY" (Ayler) – 20:17
3. "ITT" (Ayler) – 22:05

Personnel

• Albert Ayler - tenor saxophone
• Don Cherry - trumpet
• John Tchicai - alto saxophone
• Roswell Rudd - trombone
• Gary Peacock - bass
• Sunny Murray - drums

External links

• Interview with Michael Snow, discussing the conception of the film New York Eye and Ear Control

References

1. Swenson, J. (Editor) (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 16. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
2. Review by Scott Yanow, Allmusic.
3. Litweiler, John (1984). The Freedom Principle: Jazz After 1958. Da Capo.
4. Jost, Ekkehard (1975). Free Jazz (Studies in Jazz Research 4). Universal Edition.