a day like today, 39 years ago, Albert Ayler's body was found dead in the Hudson River. Since then, Ayler went to swell the list of martyrs, tripling the power of his messianic message and energy of his music. His death was recorded as "accidental death."
Many years later, the theories about this episode are different. Some say the police shot him, others fell victim to an FBI plot against racial agitators, others who were murdered by the mafia. In fact, in an article he wrote Michael Drexler on November 23, 1997 in Cleveland Plain Dealer Sunday Magazine, said that "many people who knew him said he was murdered by drug debts."
But Alberto's father, Don Edward Ayler, denies this version, and that his son "smoked some marijuana, but did not make him anything hard." So has his brother Donald said: "pure grass, no coca or heroin. " Alberto himself boasted of having no problems with drugs, something very common in the world of jazz and music in general.
Many years later, the theories about this episode are different. Some say the police shot him, others fell victim to an FBI plot against racial agitators, others who were murdered by the mafia. In fact, in an article he wrote Michael Drexler on November 23, 1997 in Cleveland Plain Dealer Sunday Magazine, said that "many people who knew him said he was murdered by drug debts."
But Alberto's father, Don Edward Ayler, denies this version, and that his son "smoked some marijuana, but did not make him anything hard." So has his brother Donald said: "pure grass, no coca or heroin. " Alberto himself boasted of having no problems with drugs, something very common in the world of jazz and music in general.
Mary Parks, Albert's widow, told her version of the death in 1983 the producer Mike Hames. Donald said he had succumbed to mental life as a musician in New York and Albert had been pressured by his mother to help and care for his brother, but when he deteriorated rapidly, Alberto felt very guilty, because he had marginalized his band. The night she disappeared, Alberto had told Mary: "My blood will be offered to save my mother and my brother." Then he would taken one of his saxophones and gone without saying where swift. According to Parks, Alberto had taken the ferry to the Statue of Liberty and would have jumped off the boat near Liberty Island.
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