My Name Is Albert Ayler

My Name Is Albert Ayler

2006 · Movie · 1h 19m

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"“If people don't like it now, they will.” - Albert Ayler"

Overview

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)

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IMDb
7.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes
94%
Metacritic
83/100
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