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My Name Is Albert Ayler

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A documentary focuses on the jazz musician's life.

Critics Reviews

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Los Angeles Times 03/13/2008
well-researched documentary is an impressionistic portrait of a man whose ecstatic braying tenor sax still sounds fresh. Go to Full Review Phil Gallo Variety 03/05/2008
Brings a sense of logic and humanity to a man whose music was as unsettling as it was untethered to the tenets of jazz. Go to Full Review Tayt Harlin New York Magazine/Vulture 02/08/2008
Illuminates Ayler's aesthetic of pure sense experience. Go to Full Review Maitland McDonagh TV Guide 09/02/2008
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The story of his [subject Albert Ayler's] troubled life and premature death is engrossing without prior knowledge of his place in the history of experimental jazz. Go to Full Review Andy Klein Los Angeles CityBeat 03/13/2008
Collin gives us a valuable look at the difference between the open-minded European jazz scene and an American culture that relegated artists like Ayler to second-class citizenship. Go to Full Review Sara Maria Vizcarrondo Boxoffice Magazine 03/13/2008
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Audience Reviews

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04/16/2010 sad, beautiful and truly insightful. worth watching even if you think avant/free jazz is just ridiculous noise. Ayler's dedication to his vision of new expression is eerily manic but so pure and persuasive. completely inimitable and raw, r.i.p. Albert. See more 04/26/2008 it doesn't matter if you like albert ayler or free jazz or not. you will still see this movie. See more 05/31/2007 A well-made film (given the relative lack of documentary footage), which looks into Albert Ayler's interesting life and mysterious death. As a fan of Ayler's free jazz musical output, I still found this fascinating, and it may even appeal to those who don't know anything about Ayler. See more 05/02/2007 Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mains... (0%) Rodgers & Hammerstein - The Sound of Movies (0%) View More / Suggest Another See more Read all reviews
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Cast & Crew

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Kasper Collin

Director

Kasper Collin

Writer

Kasper Collin

Producer

Sirel Peensaar

Co-Producer

Peter Palm

Cinematographer

Patrick Austen

Film Editing

Movie Info

Synopsis A documentary focuses on the jazz musician's life.
Director
Kasper Collin
Producer
Kasper Collin
Screenwriter
Kasper Collin
Production Co
Filmpool Nord
Genre
Documentary, Music
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 19m