The read
Critics rate it 12 points higher than audiences do. It runs a compact 1h 19m.
Synopsis
The prophetic jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler, who today is seen as one of the most important innovators in jazz, was obsessed with his radical music and by the thought that people one day would understand it. In 1962 he recorded his first album in Sweden. Eight years later he was found dead in New York's East River, aged 34. (TCM)
Ratings
IMDb7.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes94%
Metacritic83/100
Critics rate it 12 points higher than audiences do.
3 audience votes
Key crew
- Kasper CollinDirector
- Kasper CollinWriter
Cast
- Donald AylerCast
- Edward AylerCast
- Bill FolwellCast
- Elliott LandyCast
- Lionel MarshallCast
- Bernard Stollmanfounder of ESP disk
Stills
Themes
jazz