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Spiritual Unity is a 2005 album by guitarist Marc Ribot released on Pi Recordings. The album features compositions by saxophonist Albert Ayler who Ribot identifies as a significant influence. Bassist Henry Grimes who plays on the album had earlier recorded with Ayler.
Spiritual Unity is: Marc Ribot - guitar Roy Campbell - trumpet, pocket trumpet Henry Grimes - bass Chad Taylor - drums Dedicated to the music of Albert Ayler
Sep 18, 2023 · However, when Ribot started playing Ayler songs he couldn't have dreamed that he'd be playing them with Henry Grimes, the original bass player on a number of Ayler's seminal mid-'60s recordings (Grimes walked away from music in 1967 and remained out of sight until 2002).
- Marc Ribot
Oct 3, 2005 · The new unit he gathered for this occasion, featuring drummer Chad Taylor, trumpeter Roy Campbell, and the legendary bassist Henry Grimes, with whom Ayler recorded some of his seminal recordings during the '60s, is as multitalented and flexible as the leader himself.
- Nenad Georgievski
Marc Ribot's experimental trio with Henry Grimes and Chad Taylor draws on the improvising telepathy developed performing together in the years working together as Spiritual Unity, a quartet that reimagined the works of Albert Ayler, to reach new heights and depths of free/punk/jazz.
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2005 CD release of "Spiritual Unity" on Discogs.
Grimes’ amazing reemergence after 30 plus years away from music is now one of the great stories in the annals of jazz. “Spiritual Unity” is just the second release and the first studio recorded release to feature him since his return.
