condition (record/cover): VG+ (several marks not affecting play but occasional surface noise and pop) / VG (2" paper loss on spine and 3" bottom seam split)
Gatefold sleeve.
The controversial one, and time has been very kind to it. 1968: Albert Ayler goes R&B and gospel, with vocals, horn sections, backbeats and grooves - and half the jazz world clutched its pearls for decades. Listen now, without the old arguments in your ears, and what do you hear? That saxophone still testifying like absolutely nobody else, riding soul rhythms the way it once rode Sunny Murray's cymbals. The spirit never left; only the frame changed. Long dismissed, now rightly reclaimed by a generation that never needed the purity debate in the first place. Original US Impulse! - the sleeve, the message, the whole strange and wonderful package.
