Who was Albert Ayler?
Good question, even decades after the death of the avant- garde jazz saxophonist from Cleveland.
Ayler (pronounced “EYE-ler") remains “a mysterious figure," says Dean Blackwood, head of Revenant Records.
“It's mysterious how he got from point A to point Z in his musical life," Blackwood says. “He died mysteriously, too. People still don't know exactly what happened there."
Ayler's body was found floating in New York City's East River on the morning of Nov. 25, 1970. He was 34.
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