New York Eye and Ear Control

New York Eye and Ear Control
Studio album by
Released1965
RecordedJuly 17, 1964
GenreFree jazz
Length43:19
LabelESP-Disk
Albert Ayler chronology
Spiritual Unity
(1964)
New York Eye and Ear Control
(1965)
Ghosts
(1965)
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AllMusic[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[3]

New York Eye and Ear Control is an album of group improvisations recorded in July 1964 by an augmented version of Albert Ayler's group to provide the soundtrack for Michael Snow's film of the same name.[4]

  1. ^ https://www.allmusic.com/album/r23567
  2. ^ Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 54. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.
  3. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 16. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  4. ^ Weiss, Jason (2012). Always in Trouble: An Oral History of ESP-Disk, the Most Outrageous Record Label in America. Wesleyan University Press. pp. 141–144.