{"product_id":"new-grass","title":"New Grass","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlbert Ayler’s 1969 album \u003ci\u003eNew Grass\u003c\/i\u003e has been misunderstood from the day of its release. The album finds Ayler experimenting with soul music and digging back into his R\u0026amp;B roots (he started his career playing saxophone with Chicago bluesman Little Walter), fusing it with the avant-garde free jazz (the one element of the record which garnered consistent praise) and adding the vocals of Rose Marie McCoy, The Soul Singers and Ayler himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs if predicting the divisiveness of the record to follow, Ayler speaks directly to the listener and explains that New Grass is nothing like his albums before — that it is of “a different dimension of his life” — in the album opener \u003ci\u003eMessage from Albert\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Grass\u003c\/i\u003e deserves reconsideration, if not for the heavy grooves and surprising arrangements, then for its bravery in challenging norms of the time; by the ‘60s, jazz was well-accepted as a uniquely American art form, while soul as a genre was very much still seen as primitive. Ayler melds them together and creates something novel, adventurous, and completely his own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the time of its release, despite its divisive reception, \u003ci\u003eNew Grass \u003c\/i\u003ehelped break down the unnecessary walls dividing genres and revealed music’s potential freedoms. The album has gone on to influence generations of Jazz, R\u0026amp;B, Funk, Hip Hop, Post Punk, No Wave and unshrinking artists like Pharaoh Sanders, Alice Coltrane, Funkadelic, Jungle Brothers, Red Krayola, Sonic Youth and Mark E. Smith.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThird Man Records can’t recommend this record highly enough. We are confident that it won’t take but one listen for you to understand New Grass is an undeniable healing force.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Third Man","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50485181546827,"sku":"1094598","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/471133a1-27c2-4bf1-ac15-d5590ff0ca6a_thumbnail_4096.png?v=1727596879","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/products\/new-grass","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}