Released in 2004 and probably the definitive word on Ayler's short career. Diligent digging unearthed 10 CDs worth of raw, passionate music and the label then commissioned written pieces by the likes of Amiri Baraka, Val Wilmer...to produce a 200 odd page book giving the lowdown on Ayler's life and times. Also includes various bits of ephemera-photos, playbill, dried leaf(!)....

Carved black box has lots of scratches on back; obi has a small rip which has been carefully repaired with cellotape; discs have a few tiny marks.

• 1-1 Sonnymoon For Two
• 1-2 Summertime
• 1-3 On Green Dolphin Street
• 1-4 Spoken Intro
• 1-5 Four
• 1-6 Spirits [Incomplete]
• 1-7 Saints
• 1-8 Ghosts [Incomplete]
• 2-1 The Wizard
• 2-10 Spirits [Theme]
• 2-11 [Untitled] (Collective)
• 2-2 Children
• 2-3 Spirits [Theme]
• 2-4 Spoken Radio Introduction
• 2-5 Spirits
• 2-6 Vibrations
• 2-7 [Tune Q]
• 2-8 Mothers
• 2-9 Children
• 3-1 Spoken Introduction By Peter Bergman
• 3-10 Prophet / Ghosts / Spiritual Bells
• 3-11 Our Prayer / Spirits Rejoice
• 3-2 Spirits Rejoice
• 3-3 D.C.
• 3-4 [Untitled Minor Waltz]
• 3-5 Our Prayer
• 3-6 Spoken Introduction By Peter Bergman
• 3-7 [F# Tune]
• 3-8 Ghosts
• 3-9 Spirits Rejoice
• 4-1 [Untitled] / Truth Is Marching In
• 4-2 Spirits
• 4-3 Zion Hill
• 4-4 Spirits
• 4-5 Spiritual Bells
• 4-6 [F# Tune]
• 5-1 Concert Announcement By Ralf Schulte-Bahrenberg
• 5-10 "Free Spiritual Music", Part IV
• 5-2 Ghosts / Bells
• 5-3 Truth Is Marching In
• 5-4 Omega
• 5-5 Our Prayer
• 5-6 Spoken Introduction By Peter de Wit
• 5-7 Truth Is Marching In
• 5-8 Bells
• 5-9 Spirits Rejoice
• 6-1 Truth Is Marching In / Omega
• 6-2 Japan / Universal Indians
• 6-3 Our Prayer
• 6-4 Love Cry / Truth Is Marching In/Our Prayer
• 6-5 Venus / Upper And Lower Egypt
• 6-6 [Blues]
• 6-7 [Sermon]
• 6-8 Thank God For Women
• 6-9 New Ghosts [Demo Fragments]
• 7-1 Prophet John
• 7-2 Judge Ye Not
• 7-3 Mothers / Children
• 7-4 [Untitled, Incomplete]
• 7-5 [C Minor]
• 7-6 [F Minor / C Minor]
• 8-1 Travel And Plans
• 8-10 Academy, The Road, School
• 8-11 Young Professional And Army
• 8-12 Sweden
• 8-13 New York
• 8-14 1964
• 8-15 Frustration, Sources
• 8-16 1966 Tour And Coltrane
• 8-17 Impulse And Mary Maria
• 8-18 The Artist's Life
• 8-19 Question: LeRoi Jones
• 8-2 Holbaek
• 8-20 Question: "For John Coltrane"
• 8-21 Question: Socio-Policial Connections
• 8-22 Question: Instrumentation, Engineering
• 8-23 Choosing The Players
• 8-3 The New Blues
• 8-4 Christmastime Stateside
• 8-5 A Great Change
• 8-6 Traveling And Coltrane
• 8-7 Drummers And Sunny Murray
• 8-8 A Job To Do
• 8-9 Birth, Family, First Music
• 9-1 Current Activity
• 9-10 "Thank God For Women"
• 9-11 Blues & Rhythm
• 9-12 Copying My Records
• 9-13 Impulse, pt. 2: New Grass
• 9-14 Tone And "Vibration"
• 9-15 Rollins, Coleman, And Coltrane
• 9-16 Maeght Group
• 9-17 Serenity Of Life
• 9-18 Childhood Memories, pt. 1
• 9-19 [Blairman Enters]
• 9-2 Antibes
• 9-20 Early Professional Career
• 9-21 Childhood Memories, pt. 2
• 9-22 Don's Music
• 9-23 "I Love America" And Youth
• 9-24 Mary And Golf
• 9-25 Early Relationships And Mary Maria
• 9-26 Japan Work And Warm Weather
• 9-27 Play Solo
• 9-28 Naming Tunes
• 9-29 Charles Ives
• 9-3 Japan/Coltrane's Funeral
• 9-30 Influences
• 9-31 Practicing
• 9-32 The Healing Force
• 9-33 Diet And America
• 9-34 Defining "Improvisation"
• 9-35 Sonny Rollins, Reactions, And Miles Davis
• 9-36 Newport '67
• 9-37 New York: Keeping To Oneself [Mary Maria Joins]
• 9-38 Untitled
• 9-4 Clubs
• 9-5 Ahead Of My Time
• 9-6 Home Lives; Brooklyn And Cleveland
• 9-7 Impulse, pt. 1: Hippies
• 9-8 "Space Music"
• 9-9 Don
• 10-1 Tenderly
• 10-2 Leap Frog