Released 1971 | Release date 1971 | |
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Length 45:26 Goin'Home with bonus tracks Label Osmosis (Denmark) 4001Black Lion BLCD 760197 Producer Robert Altshuler and Jørgen Frigaard Albert Ayler albums Goin' Home, Spirits, Live on the Riviera, My Name Is Albert Ayler, The Hilversum Session | ||
Swing Low Sweet Spiritual is an album by American free jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler recorded in New York City at the same session that produced Spirits in 1964 and intended for released on the Dutch Debut label but first released in 1971 on the Dutch Osmosis label then rereleased on CD with bonus tracks on the Black Lion label as Goin' Home.
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Reception
The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow stated "Ayler works well with his backup group (pianist Call Cobbs, bassist Henry Grimes, and drummer Sunny Murray) and creates very emotional music (really hanging onto the themes)" while Al Campbell noted "These traditional compositions are treated with reverence and a lack of improvisation, played in a quietly passionate but respectful manner. They reveal a sensitivity that was obscured with the emotionally charged tenor screeching of the Ayler originals that were also recorded at this session".
Track listing
- "Goin' Home" (Traditional) - 4:26
- "Ol' Man River" [take 2] (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) - 5:25
- "Down by the Riverside" [take 6] (Traditional) - 4:39
- "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" [take 3] (Traditional) - 4:30
- "Deep River" (Traditional) - 4:15
- "When the Saints Go Marching In" (Traditional) - 4:12
- "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" (Traditional) - 4:44
- "Ol' Man River" [take 1] (Hammerstein, Kern) - 3:58 Additional track on Goin Home CD release
- "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" [take 1] (Traditional) - 4:49
- "Down by the Riverside" [take 5] (Traditional) - 4:28