My Name Is Albert Ayler (2005)

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Read more about this film in our article "Jazz på svenska" (in Swedish)

Original title	My Name Is Albert Ayler
Swedish release title	My Name Is Albert Ayler
International title	My Name Is Albert Ayler
Working title	Saxofonpredikanten

Director	Kasper Collin
Screenplay	Kasper Collin
Producer	Kasper Collin
Director of Photography	Peter Palm
Film Editor	Eva Hillström Patrick Austen Kasper Collin
Production Mixer	Carolina Jinde Kasper Collin Nathan Berry
Sound Design	Mario Adamson
Story Editor	Charlotte Lesche (dramaturgisk rådgivare)
Unit Publicist	Anna Linder
Film Commissioner	Göran Hugo Olsson (as Göran Olsson) (Svenska Filminstitutet) Per Nielsen (svenska filminstitutet)
Color Timer	Björn Westergård Ulf Nordin
Re-recording Mixer	Owe Svensson Mario Adamson
Graphic Design	Jon Edergren
Other Crew	Timo Menke (compositing) Edward Ayler (stillbilder) Ole Brask (stillbilder) Nils Edström (stillbilder) Larry Fink (stillbilder) Guy Kopelowicz (stillbilder) Christer Landergren (stillbilder) Elliott Landy (stillbilder) Jan Persson (stillbilder) Raymond Ross (stillbilder) Leni Sinclair (stillbilder) Chuck Stewart (stillbilder) Val Wilmer (stillbilder)
Production Coordinator	Stina Hansson
Additional Photography	Askild Edvardsen (as Askild Vik Edvardsen) Stina Hansson Kasper Collin

-	Medverkande:
Edward Ayler	Alberts pappa
Donald Ayler	Alberts lillebror
Sunny Murray	trumslagare
Gary Peacock	basist
Sune Spångberg	trumslagare
Mary Parks	Alberts kvinna/vokalist/kompositör/manager (endast röst)
Carrie Roundtree	Alberts flickvän
Lionel Marshall	trumslagare
Ann Westerman	Alberts flickvän
Bernard Stollman	grundare av ESP disk
Michel Sampson	violinist
George Wein	jazzpromotor (endast röst)
Bill Folwell	basist (endast röst)
Marlene	vän till Donald Ayler
Elliott Landy	fotograf (endast röst)
Ed Michel	producent vid ABC Impulse! (endast röst)
Mutawef Shaheed	vän till Donald och Albert Ayler

Production Company	Kasper Collin Produktion
Copyright	Kasper Collin Produktion	2005
Distributor in Sweden (35 mm)	Folkets Bio AB	2005
Advance allocations	Stiftelsen Svenska Filminstitutet	2001
	Sveriges Television AB
	Filmpool Nord AB
	Stiftelsen Svenska Filminstitutet	2004	(utökat förhandsstöd)
	Konstnärsnämnden
	Europeiska unionens regionala strukturfond
Graphics	Trollbäck & Company

The prophetic free 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. This new documentary follows the trail of Ayler from his native town of Cleveland by way of Sweden to New York, meeting family, friends and close colleagues. Ayler himself guides us with his voice and music. Seven years in the making, the film includes newly discovered footage of Ayler and band.

Censorship number	141620
Date	2005-03-22
Classification	Suitable for all audiences

Colour type	Black and white + colour
Frames per second	24
Length in minutes	79 min

	Cleveland	USA		1998	2004
	New York	USA
	Chicago	USA
	London	United Kingdom
	Stockholm	Sweden
	Arvidsjaur	Sweden

Release in Sweden	2005-03-25	Hagabion	Gothenburg	Sweden	78 min
	2005-03-25	Zita - Folkets Bio	Stockholm	Sweden	78 min
Other showing	2006-05-22
TV showing	2006-11-05	SVT2		Sweden
	2007-05-13	SVT2		Sweden

Original title	Our Prayer
Composer	Donald Ayler	(1966)
Performed by	Albert Ayler

Original title	I'll Remember April
Composer	Gene de Paul	(1941)
	Don Raye	(1941)
	Pat Johnston	(1941)
Lyrics	Gene de Paul	(1941)
	Don Raye	(1941)
	Pat Johnston	(1941)
Performed by	Albert Ayler

Original title	Blue Moon
Composer	Richard Rodgers	(1934)
Lyrics	Lorenz Hart	(1934)

Original title	Ghosts
Composer	Albert Ayler	(1964)
Performed by	Albert Ayler

Original title	Bells
Composer	Albert Ayler	(1964)
Performed by	Albert Ayler

Original title	Early Autumn
Composer	Woody Herman	(1948)
	Ralph Burns	(1948)
Lyrics	Johnny Mercer	(1948)
Performed by	Woody Herman

Original title	Ghosts/Bells
Composer	Albert Ayler
Performed by	Albert Ayler

Original title	Love Cry
Composer	Albert Ayler	(1967)
Performed by	Albert Ayler

Original title	Thank God for Women
Composer	Albert Ayler
	Mary Parks
Performed by	Albert Ayler

Original title	Message from Albert
Composer	Albert Ayler	(1968)
	Bert de Coteaux	(1968)
Performed by	Albert Ayler

Festival Award	Prague	2006			(publiken pris/audience award, Music on Film - Film on Music, Prag, Tjeckien)

The information given here refers to film material in the Swedish Film Institute’s archive. Access to the archive’s stock is given on request, for research, other film archives and rights’ holders. For enquiries please contact filmarkivet@filminstitutet.se

Element type	Video tape digital
Carrier type	Digital Betacam (PAL)

Element type	Digitalt arkivmaterial
Carrier type	MAP

Element type	Digitalt visningsmaterial
Carrier type	ProRes

Element type	Digitalt visningsmaterial
Carrier type	H264

Size	About 70 x 100 cm
Quantity	2

Size	Smaller than 40 x 75 cm
Quantity	2

Script type	Peripheral material
Extent	6 s. för- och eftertext samt musiklista.
Language	English

Black and white print	2
Colour prints	1
Behind the scenes prints	1
Slides	No

Type	Program/Reklamtryck
Language	English

Type	Program/Reklamtryck
Language	Swedish