Donald Ayler

Without a doubt, Donald Ayler is one of the great jazz trumpet stylists, but will remain forever in the shadow of his brother: tenor saxophonist, visionary, and sometimes bagpiper Albert Ayler. Much of that relationship is positive, no matter how it might have affected the trumpeter's career, a fanciful realm of data to focus on in the face of such mystical music. While not every fan of Albert Ayler is a fanatic fan of Donald Ayler, there is no such creature as the Donald Ayler fan who doesn't love Albert Ayler. That fantastic brass style, a kind of LSD-soaked New Orleans ozone, was in itself a creation of the Albert Ayler vision of music. Pundits can argue who created who, but in monster terms the relationship between brothers was similar to Dr. Frankenstein and Ygor.



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