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My Name Is Albert Ayler (documentary) My Name Is Albert Ayler (documentary) My Name Is Albert Ayler is a 2005 Swedish-American documentary film about the American Jazz musician Albert Ayler, written and directed by Kasper Collin. It was produced and edited over a period of seven years (1998 to 2005) and among its participants are Donald Ayler, Edward Ayler, Carrie Roundtree, Ann Westerman, Sune Spångberg, Lionel Marshall, Bengt Frippe Nordström, Sunny Murray, Bernard Stollman, Gary Peacock, Michel Sampson, George Wein, Bill Folwell, Val Wilmer, Mutawef Shaheed, Mary Parks, Elliott Landy and Ed Michel. It has been dubbed by "JazzTimes" as "one of the most starkly beautiful