This is the third episode that Noise and Smoke hosts Jeff Schwartz, the writer of the great book “Albert Tyler, his Life and Music” (available via ayler.co.uk, a site dedicated to Ayler himself) and “Free Jazz: A Research and Information Guide”, which is the major reference tool for anyone who would like to know about the sources of Free Jazz (available via https://www.routledge.com/Free-Jazz-A-Research-and-Information-Guide/Schwartz/p/book/9781138232679?). He is also a great base player.

To name a few of his work, he also contributed to the symposium, “Unit Structures: The Art of Cecil Taylor” (https://unitstructures.commons.gc.cuny.edu/cfp/) in 2019 as well as wrote a paper for the book Free Jazz Communism (available via http://www.rabrab.fi/PUBLICATIONS/Free-Jazz-Communism).

In this episode we conclude to listen the piece “Fragments of a dedication to Duke Ellington” of Cecil Taylor Unit’s November 1969 Berlin concert. Later we talk about the Ayler book that Jeff wrote sometime like 35 years ago, yet still (and seems will stay to be) one of the great treasures one can find about the great Albert Ayler. The process of writing the book, the research Jeff lead.

Then we will listen to the Unit’s “Fragments…” piece (again the same piece, the Unit played the same piece in every concert in the tour, each, of course different from each other) from the Stuttgart concert just four days later from the Berlin concert.  

Hosts are Robert Reigle and Volkan Terzioglu

The episode is in English.