Holy Ghost

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Sonnymoon for Two

  Herbert Katz
  8:32
• 2
  Summertime

  Herbert Katz
  6:56
• 3
  On Green Dolphin Street

  Herbert Katz
  3:33
• 4
  [spoken introduction by broadcast announcer and Borge Roger Henrichsen]

  Borge Roger Henrichsen
  0:41
• 5
  Four

  Cecil Taylor
  21:50
• 6
  Spirits (incomplete)
  6:44
• 7
  Saints
  10:34
• 8
  Ghosts (incomplete)
  10:55
• CD 2
• 1
  The Wizard
  6:56
• 2
  Children
  9:04
• 3
  Spirits (theme)
  0:31
• 4
  [spoken radio introduction]

  [unknown]
  0:55
• 5
  Spirits
  8:43
• 6
  Vibrations
  8:22
• 7
  [tune Q]
  8:58
• 8
  Mothers
  7:52
• 9
  Children
  8:38
• 10
  Spirits (theme)
  1:26
• 11
  [untitled]

  Burton Greene
  8:56
• CD 3
• 1
  [spoken introduction]

  Peter Bergman
  1:02
• 2
  Spirits Rejoice
  4:39
• 3
  D.C.
  5:58
• 4
  [untitled minor waltz]
  7:03
• 5
  Our Prayer
  6:36
• 6
  [spoken introduction]

  Peter Bergman
  1:12
• 7
  [F# tune]
  15:20
• 8
  Ghosts
  6:44
• 9
  Spirits Rejoice
  6:31
• 10
  Prophet / Ghosts / Spiritual Bells
  14:32
• 11
  Our Prayer / Spirits Rejoice
  9:42
• CD 4
• 1
  [untitled] / Truth Is Marchin’ In
  15:40
• 2
  Spirits
  9:23
• 3
  Zion Hill
  12:39
• 4
  Spirits
  7:00
• 5
  Spiritual Bells
  3:53
• 6
  [F# tune]
  9:17
• CD 5
• 1
  [concert announcement]

  Ralf Schulte-Bahrenberg
  1:09
• 2
  Ghosts / Bells
  11:15
• 3
  Truth Is Marching In
  7:07
• 4
  Omega
  3:48
• 5
  Our Prayer
  4:42
• 6
  [spoken introduction]

  Peter de Wit
  1:25
• 7
  Truth Is Marching In
  11:13
• 8
  Bells
  5:34
• 9
  Spirits Rejoice
  10:51
• 10
  [Free Spiritual Music, Part IV]
  6:45
• CD 6
• 1
  Truth Is Marching In / Omega
  9:08
• 2
  Japan / Universal Indians
  5:45
• 3
  Our Prayer
  8:25
• 4
  Love Cry / Truth Is Marching In / Our Prayer
  6:26
• 5
  Venus / Upper and Lower Egypt

  Pharoah Sanders
  23:04
• 6
  [blues]
  6:09
• 7
  [sermon]
  0:55
• 8
  Thank God for Women
  10:20
• 9
  New Ghosts (demo fragments)
  7:09
• CD 7
• 1
  Prophet John

  Donald Ayler
  10:53
• 2
  Judge Ye Not

  Donald Ayler
  10:19
• 3
  Mothers / Children
  8:41
• 4
  [untitled] (incomplete)
  14:18
• 5
  [C minor]
  5:21
• 6
  [F minor / C minor]
  10:38
• CD 8
• 1
  [travel and plans]
  1:50
• 2
  [Holbaek]
  0:38
• 3
  [the New Blues]
  1:33
• 4
  [Christmastime stateside]
  1:13
• 5
  [a great change]
  1:34
• 6
  [traveling and Coltrane]
  1:00
• 7
  [drummers and Sunny Murray]
  1:41
• 8
  [a job to do]
  1:06
• 9
  [birth, family, first music]
  3:08
• 10
  [academy, the road, school]
  0:57
• 11
  [young professional and army]
  5:39
• 12
  [Sweden]
  4:39
• 13
  [New York]
  0:48
• 14
  [1964]
  1:25
• 15
  [frustration, sources]
  3:39
• 16
  [1966 tour and Coltrane]
  3:15
• 17
  [impulse! and Mary Maria]
  3:26
• 18
  [the artist’s life]
  1:30
• 19
  [question: LeRoi jones]
  0:46
• 20
  [question: “For John Coltrane”]
  1:09
• 21
  [question: socio‐political connections]
  3:18
• 22
  [question: instrumentation, engineering]
  4:15
• 23
  [choosing the players]
  6:45
• CD 9
• 1
  [current activity]
  2:02
• 2
  [Antibes]
  1:06
• 3
  [Japan / Coltrane’s funeral]
  1:01
• 4
  [clubs]
  3:39
• 5
  [ahead of my time]
  1:41
• 6
  [home Lives: Brooklyn and Cleveland]
  1:27
• 7
  [impulse!, part 1: Hippies]
  1:20
• 8
  [“Space Music”]
  1:07
• 9
  [Don]
  0:45
• 10
  [“Thank God for Women”]
  0:46
• 11
  [blues & rhythm]
  1:17
• 12
  [copying my records]
  2:00
• 13
  [impulse!, part 2: New Grass]
  2:17
• 14
  [tone and “vibration”]
  1:07
• 15
  [Rollins, Coleman and Coltrane]
  4:08
• 16
  [Maeght group]
  0:56
• 17
  [serenity of life]
  0:36
• 18
  [childhood memories, part 1]
  1:59
• 19
  (Blairman enters)
  0:34
• 20
  [early professional career]
  1:02
• 21
  [childhood memories, part 2]
  1:08
• 22
  [Don’s music]
  3:46
• 23
  [“I Love America” and youth]
  1:05
• 24
  [Mary and golf]
  0:37
• 25
  [early relationships and Mary Maria]
  1:02
• 26
  [Japan work and warm weather]
  4:01
• 27
  [play solo]
  0:24
• 28
  [naming tunes]
  1:22
• 29
  [Charles Ives]
  0:25
• 30
  [influences]
  1:44
• 31
  [practicing]
  1:09
• 32
  [The Healing Force]
  0:51
• 33
  [diet and America]
  2:07
• 34
  [defining “improvisation”]
  0:44
• 35
  [Sonny Rollins, reactions, and Miles Davis]
  2:42
• 36
  [Newport ’67]
  2:29
• 37
  [New York: keeping to oneself] (Mary Maria joins)
  0:43
• 38
  [Don and Mocqui Cherry interview with Daniel Caux]

  Don Cherry
  22:11
• CD 10
• 1
  Tenderly

  76th A.G. Army Band
  4:36
• 2
  Leap Frog

  76th A.G. Army Band
  3:15

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Release credits

• Albert Ayler
  alto saxophone [6.3, 7.1-2], soprano saxophone [3], spoken vocals [1-37], tenor saxophone [10.1-2, 2.1-3, 2.5-11, 1.1-3, 1.5-8, 5.2-5, 5.7-10, 4.1-6, 3.2-5, 3.7-11, 6.1-9, 7.3-6], vocal [2, 4, 6-9]
• Allen Blairman
  drums (drum set) [3-6]
• Beaver Harris
  drums (drum set) [2-5, 7-10]
• Ben Young
  mastering
• Bernard “Pretty” Purdie
  drums (drum set) [6-9]
• Bill Folwell
  double bass [5.2-5, 5.7-10, 6.1-3], electric bass guitar [6-9]
• Borge Roger Henrichsen
  spoken vocals [4]
• Burton Greene
  piano [11]
• Call Cobbs
  piano [6.6-9, 7.3-6]
• Chris Capers
  trumpet [5]
• Daniel Caux
  spoken vocals [38]
• Dave Burrell
  piano [5]
• Don Cherry
  cornet [5-10], spoken vocals [38]
• Donald Ayler
  trumpet [3.2-5, 3.7-11, 6.1-4, 7.1-2, 4.1-6, 5.2-5, 5.7-10]
• Frank Smith
  tenor saxophone [11]
• Frank Wright
  tenor saxophone [1-6]
• Gary Peacock
  double bass [1.6-8, 2.1-3, 2.5-10]
• Heikki Annala
  double bass [1-3]
• Herbert Katz
  guitar [1-3]
• Ibrahim Wahen
  double bass [1-2]
• Jimmy Lyons
  alto saxophone [5]
• Joe Lizzi
  additional
• Kevin Reeves
  additional
• Martti Äijänen
  drums (drum set) [1-3]
• Mary Parks
  handclaps [3-6], spoken vocals [37], tambourine [6.6-9, 7.3-6], vocal [6-9]
• Michel Samson
  violin [5.2-5, 5.7-10, 4.1-6, 6.1-3, 3.2-5, 3.7-11]
• Milford Graves
  drums (drum set) [1-4]
• Moki Cherry
  spoken vocals [38]
• Mutawef Shaheed
  double bass [3.2-5, 3.7-11, 4.1-6]
• Noel Waggener
  art direction
• Peter de Wit
  spoken vocals [6]
• Pharoah Sanders
  tenor saxophone [5]
• Ralf Schulte-Bahrenberg
  spoken vocals [1]
• Rashied Ali
  drums (drum set) [11]
• Raymond Patterson
  drums (drum set) [1-2]
• Richard Davis
  double bass [7.1-2, 6.4]
• Richard Johnson
  piano [1-2]
• Roger Blank
  drums (drum set) [5]
• Ronald Shannon Jackson
  drums (drum set) [3.2-5, 3.7-11, 4.1-6]
• Sam Rivers
  tenor saxophone [1-2]
• Sirone
  double bass [5]
• Steve Tintweiss
  double bass [7.3-6, 2.11]
• Sunny Murray
  drums (drum set) [1.5-8, 2.1-3, 2.5-10]
• Teuvo Suojärvi
  piano [1-3]
• Vivian Bostic
  vocal [6-9]
• [unknown]
  alto saxophone [5], tenor saxophone [5]
• 小山清
  spoken vocals [6.6-9, 9.1-37]
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Issues

• 

  H
  Holy Ghost

  10x CD
  October 2004
• 

  H
  Holy Ghost

  3x 12" Vinyl
  11 April 2005