Jazz Magazine – Selection CHOC – Chet Baker Trio Live in Paris
All the lovers of the 1984 album of 1984, "Mr. B", with Riccardo Del Fra and Michel Graillier, will be delighted to find "Chet" on stage at the top of his form in this intimate formula, in total symbiosis with these two musicians whose life and music he changed forever. (Original text in French)
Jazz Journal - Chet Baker Trio: Live In Paris
The trumpeter's singing can seem self-indulgent and narcissistic but the horn playing in this early 80s set has weathered well.
Record Collector – From the Vaults – Albert Ayler & Chet Baker
"Trane was the father, Pharoah Sanders was the son, I was the holy ghost"
Jazz Magazine – Portrait: Mark turner, star tranquille
Mark Turner's first album of the Quintet is reissued for the first time on a the first time in double LP.
London Jazz News – Chet baker Trio Live in Paris (rec. 1983/4)
On the labels of this handcsome triple vinyl set, the font makes the artist credit look rather like "Chet Baker Brio".
Süddeutsche Zeitung – Jazz Column : Demolitionist
For the first time, the complete recordings ofAlbertAyler and Mary Parks' concerts can be heard in the Maeght Museum in the South of France.
Spectrum Culture – Review – Albert Ayler 'Revelations'
Revelations: The Complete ORTF 1970 Fondation Maeght Recordings melds together two previously released Albert Ayler records, Nuits de la Fondation and Live on the Riviera. It’s also a great deal more than that – 28 live tracks lasting just over four hours.
Youtube – Ken Micallef and Jeff Lederer on Albert Ayler 'Revelations'
Coproducer Jeff Lederer talks Albert Ayler's career and Elemental Jazz's "Revelations" RSD box set.
Aquarium Drunkard – Albert Ayler: Revelations, the complete 1970 ORTF recordings
When an artist dies young, we’re often left wondering what could have been and looking for clues among their final records and performances.
Bandcamp Daily – A New Collection Revisits One of Albert Ayler’s Final Performances
In less than a decade, he reshaped avant-garde jazz in his own image, leaving an empty space after his death that many would argue was never filled.
Uncut Magazine – Albert Ayler "Revelations" 9/10
Fearsomely powerful free jazz from Ayler's final performances
The Times – Chet Baker Trio: Live in Paris review – a trumpeter who was much more than the clichés
It covers two Paris concerts taped by Radio France in 1983 and 1984, when Baker was in the middle of his glorious European resurgence.
The Times - Chet Baker Live in Paris: a tumpeter that was much more then the clichés
Chet Baker is an icon of jazz for all the wrong reasons. [...] Yet he was a superb trumpeter, as this previously unreleased set proves.
Downbeat Magazine – Editor’s Pick – Albert Ayler Revelations *****
This documents a unique period in Ayler’s work. He was prepping to release the last album he would record in his lifetime: Music Is The Healing Power Of The Universe (four of five tracks on that are here). A month before, he played two recorded dates in France at the Foundation Maeght, Saint Paul-De-Venice on July 23 and 27, 1970.
The Vinyl District – Graded on a Curve: Chet Baker Trio, Live in Paris
Although he is not universally beloved, the trumpeter and occasional vocalist Chet Baker is one of the truly iconic artists in the history of jazz.
Tomajazz – Albert Ayler: Revelations: The Complete ORTF 1970 Fondation Maeght Recordings
For Record Store Day, the label Elemental Music is releasing Revelations. The Complete ORTF Fondation Maeght Recordings by Albert Ayler, in quintuple LP and quadruple CD format, which collects the complete live recordings of Albert Ayler at the concerts of the Maeght Foundation (France), on July 25 and 27, 1970. (original text in spanish)
France Musique – Jazz Bonus : Albert Ayler
Finally the complete version of the mythical "Nuits de la Fondation Maeght" by Albert Ayler: "Revelations", remastered, transferred from the original ORTF tapes, offers more than 2 hours of unreleased music. Released by Elemental in partnership with the Albert Ayler estate and the INA.
The Wire Magazine – The Boomerang: New reissues and archive releases
In July 1970, Albert Ayler played his last recorded concerts at the Fondation Maeght in France.
The Quietus – Reissue Of The Week: Albert Ayler’s Revelations
Daniel Spicer gets to grips with the newly minted five LP set, Revelations: The Complete ORTF 1970 Fondation Maeght Recordings, and finds the crowning triumph of Albert Ayler's career as a live performer.
NPR Music : “Albert Ayler made sublime music. The world was not ready”
The saxophonist's last recorded concerts appear on 'Revelations'