My Name Is Albert Ayler (documentary)

My Name Is Albert Ayler
Directed by Kasper Collin
Produced by Kasper Collin
Written by Kasper Collin
Music by Albert Ayler and more
Cinematography Peter Palm, Askild Vik Edvardsen
Edited by Eva Hillström, Kasper Collin, Patrick Austen
Release date
 2005/2007
Country Sweden - USA
Language English

My Name Is Albert Ayler is a 2005 Swedish-American documentary film about the American Jazz musician Albert Ayler, written and directed by Kasper Collin.

It was produced and edited over a period of seven years (1998 to 2005) and among its participants are Donald Ayler, Edward Ayler, Carrie Roundtree, Ann Westerman, Sune Spångberg, Lionel Marshall, Bengt Frippe Nordström, Sunny Murray, Bernard Stollman, Gary Peacock, Michel Sampson, George Wein, Bill Folwell, Val Wilmer, Mutawef Shaheed, Mary Parks, Elliott Landy and Ed Michel.

It has been dubbed by JazzTimes as "one of the most starkly beautiful and moving documentaries ever made about a jazz musician"[1] and is building on Albert Ayer's music and his voice from recorded interviews between 1963 and 1970.

The film met with mixed reviews when released in Sweden in 2005, but was praised by UK and US critics when theatrically released in those countries in 2007.[2][3][4][5][6][7] Metacritic gives the film 83/100 and has awarded it the 19th best film from 2007.[8] Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a Tomatometer score of 94%.[9]

My Name Is Albert Ayler was director Kasper Collin's first feature documentary. The second was I Called Him Morgan.

References

  1. ↑ "My Name Is Albert Ayler - the jazz documentary". www.mynameisalbertayler.com. Retrieved 2017-05-30.
  2. ↑ "My Name is Albert Ayler". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2017-05-30.
  3. ↑ "My Name Is Albert Ayler | Village Voice". Retrieved 2017-05-30.
  4. ↑ "My Name Is Albert Ayler - Film4". www.film4.com. Retrieved 2017-05-30.
  5. ↑ Sandhu, Sukhdev. "Human drama and animal magic". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-05-30.
  6. ↑ "There's No Catching Up With Albert Ayler - The New York Sun". www.nysun.com. Retrieved 2017-05-30.
  7. ↑ "MY NAME IS ALBERT AYLER | Film Journal International". www.filmjournal.com. Retrieved 2017-05-30.
  8. ↑ My Name Is Albert Ayler, retrieved 2017-05-30
  9. ↑ My Name Is Albert Ayler, retrieved 2017-05-30
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