Holy Ghost

Album by Albert Ayler

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Sonnymoon for Two
    8:32
  2. 2.
    Summertime
    6:56
  3. 3.
    On Green Dolphin Street
    3:33
  4. 4.
    [spoken introduction by broadcast announcer and Borge Roger Henrichsen]
    0:41
  5. 5.
    Four
    21:50
  6. 6.
    Spirits (incomplete)
    6:44
  7. 7.
    Saints
    10:34
  8. 8.
    Ghosts (incomplete)
    10:55

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    The Wizard
    6:56
  2. 3.
    Children
    9:04
  3. 4.
    Spirits (theme)
    0:31
  4. 5.
    [spoken radio introduction]
    0:55
  5. 6.
    Spirits
    8:43
  6. 7.
    Vibrations
    8:22
  7. 8.
    [tune Q]
    8:58
  8. 9.
    Mothers
    7:52
  9. 10.
    Children
    8:38
  10. 11.
    Spirits (theme)
    1:26
  11. 12.
    [untitled]
    8:56

Disc 3

  1. 3.
    [spoken introduction]
    1:02
  2. 4.
    Spirits Rejoice
    4:39
  3. 5.
    D.C.
    5:58
  4. 6.
    [untitled minor waltz]
    7:03
  5. 7.
    Our Prayer
    6:36
  6. 8.
    [spoken introduction]
    1:12
  7. 9.
    [F# tune]
    15:20
  8. 10.
    Ghosts
    6:44
  9. 11.
    Spirits Rejoice
    6:31
  10. 12.
    Prophet / Ghosts / Spiritual Bells
    14:32
  11. 13.
    Our Prayer / Spirits Rejoice
    9:42

Disc 4

  1. 4.
    [untitled] / Truth Is Marchin’ In
    15:40
  2. 5.
    Spirits
    9:23
  3. 6.
    Zion Hill
    12:39
  4. 7.
    Spirits
    7:00
  5. 8.
    Spiritual Bells
    3:53
  6. 9.
    [F# tune]
    9:17

Disc 5

  1. 5.
    [concert announcement]
    1:09
  2. 6.
    Ghosts / Bells
    11:15
  3. 7.
    Truth Is Marching In
    7:07
  4. 8.
    Omega
    3:48
  5. 9.
    Our Prayer
    4:42
  6. 10.
    [spoken introduction]
    1:25
  7. 11.
    Truth Is Marching In
    11:13
  8. 12.
    Bells
    5:34
  9. 13.
    Spirits Rejoice
    10:51
  10. 14.
    [Free Spiritual Music, Part IV]
    6:45

Disc 6

  1. 6.
    Truth Is Marching In / Omega
    9:08
  2. 7.
    Japan / Universal Indians
    5:45
  3. 8.
    Our Prayer
    8:25
  4. 9.
    Love Cry / Truth Is Marching In / Our Prayer
    6:26
  5. 10.
    Venus / Upper and Lower Egypt
    23:04
  6. 11.
    [blues]
    6:09
  7. 12.
    [sermon]
    0:55
  8. 13.
    Thank God for Women
    10:20
  9. 14.
    New Ghosts (demo fragments)
    7:09

Disc 7

  1. 7.
    Prophet John
    10:53
  2. 8.
    Judge Ye Not
    10:19
  3. 9.
    Mothers / Children
    8:41
  4. 10.
    [untitled] (incomplete)
    14:18
  5. 11.
    [C minor]
    5:21
  6. 12.
    [F minor / C minor]
    10:38

Disc 8

  1. 8.
    [travel and plans]
    1:50
  2. 9.
    [Holbaek]
    0:38
  3. 10.
    [the New Blues]
    1:33
  4. 11.
    [Christmastime stateside]
    1:13
  5. 12.
    [a great change]
    1:34
  6. 13.
    [traveling and Coltrane]
    1:00
  7. 14.
    [drummers and Sunny Murray]
    1:41
  8. 15.
    [a job to do]
    1:06
  9. 16.
    [birth, family, first music]
    3:08
  10. 17.
    [academy, the road, school]
    0:57
  11. 18.
    [young professional and army]
    5:39
  12. 19.
    [Sweden]
    4:39
  13. 20.
    [New York]
    0:48
  14. 21.
    [1964]
    1:25
  15. 22.
    [frustration, sources]
    3:39
  16. 23.
    [1966 tour and Coltrane]
    3:15
  17. 24.
    [impulse! and Mary Maria]
    3:26
  18. 25.
    [the artist’s life]
    1:30
  19. 26.
    [question: LeRoi jones]
    0:46
  20. 27.
    [question: “For John Coltrane”]
    1:09
  21. 28.
    [question: socio‐political connections]
    3:18
  22. 29.
    [question: instrumentation, engineering]
    4:15
  23. 30.
    [choosing the players]
    6:45

Disc 9

  1. 9.
    [current activity]
    2:02
  2. 10.
    [Antibes]
    1:06
  3. 11.
    [Japan / Coltrane’s funeral]
    1:01
  4. 12.
    [clubs]
    3:39
  5. 13.
    [ahead of my time]
    1:41
  6. 14.
    [home Lives: Brooklyn and Cleveland]
    1:27
  7. 15.
    [impulse!, part 1: Hippies]
    1:20
  8. 16.
    [“Space Music”]
    1:07
  9. 17.
    [Don]
    0:45
  10. 18.
    [“Thank God for Women”]
    0:46
  11. 19.
    [blues & rhythm]
    1:17
  12. 20.
    [copying my records]
    2:00
  13. 21.
    [impulse!, part 2: New Grass]
    2:17
  14. 22.
    [tone and “vibration”]
    1:07
  15. 23.
    [Rollins, Coleman and Coltrane]
    4:08
  16. 24.
    [Maeght group]
    0:56
  17. 25.
    [serenity of life]
    0:36
  18. 26.
    [childhood memories, part 1]
    1:59
  19. 27.
    (Blairman enters)
    0:34
  20. 28.
    [early professional career]
    1:02
  21. 29.
    [childhood memories, part 2]
    1:08
  22. 30.
    [Don’s music]
    3:46
  23. 31.
    [“I Love America” and youth]
    1:05
  24. 32.
    [Mary and golf]
    0:37
  25. 33.
    [early relationships and Mary Maria]
    1:02
  26. 34.
    [Japan work and warm weather]
    4:01
  27. 35.
    [play solo]
    0:24
  28. 36.
    [naming tunes]
    1:22
  29. 37.
    [Charles Ives]
    0:25
  30. 38.
    [influences]
    1:44
  31. 39.
    [practicing]
    1:09
  32. 40.
    [The Healing Force]
    0:51
  33. 41.
    [diet and America]
    2:07
  34. 42.
    [defining “improvisation”]
    0:44
  35. 43.
    [Sonny Rollins, reactions, and Miles Davis]
    2:42
  36. 44.
    [Newport ’67]
    2:29
  37. 45.
    [New York: keeping to oneself] (Mary Maria joins)
    0:43
  38. 46.
    [Don and Mocqui Cherry interview with Daniel Caux]
    22:11

Disc 10

  1. 10.
    Tenderly
    4:36
  2. 11.
    Leap Frog
    3:15

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