Donald Ayler

Donald "Don" Ayler ( born October 5, 1942 in Cleveland, Ohio; † November 7, 2007 in Northfield ( Ohio)) was an American jazz trumpeter of free jazz.

Don Ayler is the younger brother of Albert Ayler. He studied from 1952 to 1957 at the Miller Academy of Music in Cleveland and the Cleveland Institute of Music. He played in his father's band and gathered on the advice of his brother began performing in the band of saxophonist Charles Tyler. In 1963 he lived in Europe and entered 1964 as the successor of Don Cherry in the quartet of his brother one, with whom he also made recordings and accompanied him on his European tour. In 1966 he participated in a concert of John Coltrane at New York's Lincoln Center. Don Ayler's compositions such as " Jesus " and " Our Prayer " were held on Albert Ayler's plates; the recordings show a pointed matched siblings. After the early death of Albert Ayler in 1970, the Don Ayler deeply touched, ended his career as a trumpet player, even if he appeared occasionally at concerts.

Under his own name appeared live recording of a concert in New York in 1969 ( a previously unreleased session for Amiri Baraka's Jihad Label), included in the Albert Ayler box set Revenant 's Holy Ghost and a set consisting of three albums, Don Ayler in Florence in 1981.

Disco Graphical Notes

• Albert Ayler: Lörrach / Paris ( hatART, 1966)
• Albert Ayler In Greenwich Village ( Impulse! Records, 1967)