Albert Ayler – Slugs' Saloon / ESP Disk 2x Audio CD 2005 / ESP 4025 UPC 825481040259 Live at Slug's Saloon is a live album by the American jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler recorded on May 1, 1966 at Slugs' Saloon in New York City. The music was originally released in 1982 as Albert Ayler Quintet Live at Slug's Saloon volumes 1 and 2 on Base Records (Italy), DIW Records (Japan), and ESP-Disk (U.S.), and, over the years, was reissued by a variety of small labels under different titles. A CD containing both volumes, plus an additional track recorded at the same concert, was released by ESP-Disk with the title Slugs' Saloon. On the album, Ayler plays tenor saxophone, and is accompanied by his brother Donald Ayler on trumpet, Michel Samson on violin, Lewis Worrell on bass, and Ronald Shannon Jackson on drums. Label: ESP Disk – ESP 4025 Format: 2 x CD, Compilation Country: US Released: 2005 Genre: Jazz Style: Free Jazz, Avantgarde Tracklist: 1-1 Truth Is Marching In 10:10 1-2 Our Prayer 12:19 1-3 Bells 18:00 2-1 Ghosts 23:08 2-2 Initiation 16:32 Double Bass [String] – Lewis Worrell Layout [Back Cover], Design – Paul Costuros Liner Notes – John Kruth Percussion – Ron Jackson Photography – Jazz Special Archives, Denmark Photography By – Bill Smith (3), Ole Brask, Raymond Ross Restoration [Digital Restoration] – Douglas McGregor Tenor Saxophone – Albert Ayler Trumpet – Donald Ayler Violin – Michel Samson
