NY Eye and Ear Control puts trumpeter Don Cherry, trombonist Roswell Rudd, and alto saxophonist John Tchicai amidst the fiery trio of Albert Ayler, bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Sunny Murray - who had only a matter of days before changing the course of musical history with Spiritual Unity . One of the defining documents of the new music of ESP-Disk' - the sextet recorded this improvised work as a soundtrack to filmmaker Michael Snow's 1964 film. What began as an informal meeting on July 17, 1964 resulted in a session that shook the foundations of music - a transcendent wall-of-sound group improvisation method that would echo through consciousness free-music and avant garde jazz for years to come. Undoubtedly this is among the most vital and forward thinking recordings in the history of modern improvised music.