Film

My Name Is Albert Ayler

2006 · 1h 19m · Documentary · Music

“If people don't like it now, they will.” - Albert Ayler

IMDb

7.1

Rotten Tomatoes

94%

Metacritic

83

The prophetic jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler, who today is seen as one of the most important innovators in jazz, was obsessed with his radical music and by the thought that people one day would understand it. In 1962 he recorded his first album in Sweden. Eight years later he was found dead in New York's East River, aged 34. (TCM)

• Kasper CollinDirector · Writer · Editor
• Eva HillströmEditor
• Patrick AustenEditor

Release date

September 21, 2006

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 19m

Genres

Documentary, Music

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