New subject: Ayler Box Set

15 Jul 2004

      I just got my copy this week.  It is absolutely beautiful!  The release date
is October 4 and Revenant is planning some events to celebrate the release.
Events are being planned in Austin, NYC and Marfa Texas!

Revenant is working on an Ornette set.  A bunch of music has been gathered
and Ornette and Denardo are still mulling it over.  It could be awhile...
You will probably see other Revenant projects before the completion of the
Coleman box.

The Ayler box contains a very nice hardbound book edited by Ben Young.  It
is great to see this kind of care taken in assessing Ayler's work.  I think
it will do a lot to raise the profile of improvised music and free jazz.

I've been told that considerable care was taken to keep the production costs
very low so the box would be affordable.  The price I heard from the graphic
designer is $85 retail!

here is a sneak peak at the design...

http://home.austin.rr.com/subculture/news.htm

thanks

pg moreno
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 11:38:39 -0500
From: Herb Levy <herb@eskimo.com>
Subject: Ayler box set
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"deka" <deka@zebratelecom.ru> asked:
Also, it was mentioned in the June issue of The Wire that some label is
planning to issue a massive set of Ayler unreleased material. Anyone knows
the details?
Revenant Records has had flyers for this set at the few gigs I made
it down to Austin to hear this year, but there's nothing yet on the
Web site: <http://www.revenantrecords.com/>

The original release date was some time in fall 2004.

A while back they also had plans for releasing a book/CD set of
Ornette Coleman material, the book being a discussion of harmolodic
structure, so who knows what may eventually appear.

Bests,

Herb

RE: Ayler Box Set

P.G. Moreno

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