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ARTIST
AYLER, ALBERT
TITLE
New Grass
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
THIRD MAN RECORDS
CATALOG #
TMR 638LP
TMR 638LP
GENRE
JAZZ
RELEASE DATE
7/10/2020
2024 repress. "Albert Ayler's 1969 album
New Grass
has been misunderstood from the day of its release. The album finds Ayler experimenting with soul music and digging back into his R&B roots (he started his career playing saxophone with Chicago bluesman Little Walter), fusing it with the avant-garde free jazz (the one element of the record which garnered consistent praise) and adding the vocals of Rose Marie McCoy, The Soul Singers and Ayler himself. As if predicting the divisiveness of the record to follow, Ayler speaks directly to the listener and explains that
New Grass
is nothing like his albums before -- that it is of "a different dimension of his life" -- in the album opener "Message from Albert."
New Grass
deserves reconsideration, if not for the heavy grooves and surprising arrangements, then for its bravery in challenging norms of the time; by the '60s, jazz was well-accepted as a uniquely American art form, while soul as a genre was very much still seen as primitive. Ayler melds them together and creates something novel, adventurous, and completely his own. At the time of its release, despite its divisive reception,
New Grass
helped break down the unnecessary walls dividing genres and revealed music's potential freedoms. The album has gone on to influence generations of jazz, R&B, funk, hip hop, post punk, no wave and unshrinking artists like Pharaoh Sanders, Alice Coltrane, Funkadelic, Jungle Brothers, Red Krayola, Sonic Youth and Mark E. Smith. Third Man Records can't recommend this record highly enough. We are confident that it won't take but one listen for you to understand
New Grass
is an undeniable healing force."
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