Peter Brötzmann & Paal Nilssen-Love

Nearly four decades after his death, the legacy of Albert Ayler is plain -- a plethora of reed-biting aural contortionists bent on exploiting the saxophone's propensity for making sounds that resemble a human scream. Many such players, unable to play anything resembling a coherent melody, rely instead on the extreme manifestations of the Ayler technique; their playing is more often than not a randomly executed wall of energy and emotion-driven white noise. Peter Br+¦tzmann, on the other hand, is the rare Ayler-influenced saxophonist capable (like Ayler) of producing improvised...