Ayler Records is an independent record label that focuses on jazz, free jazz, and improvised music.

History
Named after saxophonist Albert Ayler, the label was founded in Sweden in 2000 by Jan Ström and Åke Bjurhamn. The majority of Ayler's early releases were live recordings of European and American free jazz groups, many of them taped at the Glenn Miller Café in Stockholm, where Ström helped to book musicians. In 2009, Ayler relocated to France, where it is managed by Stéphane Berland, who had joined the label in 2005, and who is now the sole overseer. Recent releases are, according to writer Nick Ostrum, "not really jazz or free jazz, though they all lay somewhere on the musical fringes," suggesting "interesting and unpredictable things to come," and reflecting a broadening of the label's catalogue.

Cover art
Ayler Records releases have been noted for their unique cover art and design. From 2000 to 2008, covers featured a beige background and reproductions of paintings by co-founder Åke Bjurhamn, while releases from 2009 on have cover art designed by Stéphane Berland, who earns a living as a graphic designer and writer in the advertising field.

Reception
Writer Krištof Budke called the label's catalogue "brilliant, forward-thinking, progressive and extremely creative," while reviewer Rex Butters praised Ayler for "[doing] its part to retrieve deserving free records from obscurity." Ayler Records releases have received praise from Jazzwise, JazzTimes, Tom Hull, Point of Departure, Paris Transatlantic, Dusted Magazine, and The Times.

Releases
Entries beginning with "aylCD" are CD releases; those beginning with "aylDL" are download-only releases.

 aylCD-001	Noah Howard Quartet: Live at the Unity Temple
 aylCD-002	Arthur Doyle & Sunny Murray: Live at Glenn Miller Café
 aylDL-003	No School: No School
 aylCD-004	Peter Brötzmann, Peter Uuskyla & Peter Friis-Nielsen: Live at Nefertiti
 aylDL-005	Steve Swell: Live at the Bowery Poetry Club
 aylCD-006	Michael Marcus Trio: Ithem
 aylCD-007	John Stevens Trio: Live at the Plough
 aylCD-008	The Fish: Live at Olympic Café & Jazz à Mulhouse (same as aylCD-057)
 aylCD-009	Exuberance: Live at Vision Festival
 aylCD-010 Return of the New Thing: Traque
 aylDL-011	Joel Futterman: Possibilities
 aylCD-012	Peter Janson, Jonas Kullhammar & Paal Nilssen-Love: Live at Glenn Miller Café
 aylCD-013	Lars-Göran Ulander Trio: Live at Glenn Miller Café
 aylDL-014	Louie Belogenis, Joe Morris & Charles Downs: The Flow
 aylCD-015	Charles Gayle Trio: Live at Glenn Miller Café
 aylDL-016	Tom Heurich Trio: Hotzen Session
 aylCD-017–18	Anders Gahnold Trio: Flowers for Johnny
 aylDL-019	Frode Gjerstad Trio: The Other Side
 aylCD-020	SURD: Live at Glenn Miller Café
 aylCD-021–22	Bengt Nordström: The Environmental Control Office
 aylDL-023	Sonny Simmons Trio: Live at Knitting Factory
 aylCD-024	Assif Tsahar & Hamid Drake: Soul Bodies, Vol. 1
 aylCD-025	Assif Tsahar & Hamid Drake: Soul Bodies, Vol. 2
 aylCD-026	Jemeel Moondoc Trio: Live at Glenn Miller Café
 aylDL-027	François Carrier Quartet: Noh
 aylCD-028	Henry Grimes Trio: Live at the Kerava Jazz Festival
 aylDL-029	Luther Thomas & Rune Larsen: Busking in Christiania
 aylCD-030	Exploding Customer: Live at Glenn Miller Café
 aylCD-031	Exploding Customer: At Tampere Jazz Happening
 aylCD-032	Per Henrik Wallin Trio: The Stockholm Tapes
 aylCD-033	Albert Ayler: The Copenhagen Tapes
 aylCD-034	The Electrics: Live at Glenn Miller Café
 aylCD-035	The Electrics: Chain of Accidents
 aylCD-036–40	Jimmy Lyons: The Box Set
 aylDL-041	Luther Thomas: Finally! Total Unity in 3 Phases
 aylDL-042	Tommy Koverhult Trio: Trane to Taube
 aylDL-043	Michal Osowski Collective: Live at White Elephant
 aylCD-044	William Parker Trio: ... and William Danced
 aylDL-045	Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut: Allemansratten
 aylDL-046 Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut: Live at Tonic
 aylCD-047	Jemeel Moondoc Tentet: Live at the Vision Festival
 aylCD-048–49	Mongezi Feza: Free Jam
 aylCD-050–51	Rashied Ali & Arthur Rhames: The Dynamic Duo Remember Trane and Bird
 aylCD-052	Fred Anderson & Harrison Bankhead: The Great Vision Concert
 aylCD-053	Bayashi: Help is on its Way
 aylDL-054	Martin Küchen Trio: Live at Glenn Miller Café
 aylCD-055 Firehouse: Live at Glenn Miller Café
 aylDL-056	Heinz Geisser & Guerino Mazzola: Live at Airegin
 aylCD-057	The Fish: Live at Olympic Café & Jazz à Mulhouse (same as aylCD-008)
 aylDL-058 Thieke, Griener & Weber: Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
 aylDL-059	Rune Larsen & Adam Nordin: Northern Lights Blues
 aylDL-060	Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut: The Williamsburg Sessions II
 aylDL-061	Michel Lambert: Unclouded Day
 aylDL-062	Zero Point: Plays Albert Ayler
 aylCD-063	Exploding Customer: At Your Service
 aylDL-064	Luther Thomas & John Lindberg: Spirit of St. Louis
 aylCD-065	Niels Jørgen Steen's Beatkapell: The Åhus Concert
 aylDL-066	Jair-Rôhm Parker Wells Trio: Meditations on Albert Ayler: Live at Glenn Miller Café
 aylDL-067	New Generation Quartet: Dances
 aylDL-068	Stephen Gauci's Stockholm Conference: Live at Glenn Miller Café, pt. 3
 aylDL-069	Mathias Rissi & Heinz Geisser: Herakleitos
 aylDL-070	Jeff Marx & Jeff "Siege" Siegel: Dreamstuff
 aylDL-071	Szilárd Mezei Quintet: As You
 aylCD-072	Mark O'Leary, Stefan Pasborg & Peter Friis-Nielsen: Støj
 aylDL-073	Frode Gjerstad, Kevin Norton & Paul Rogers: Antioch
 aylDL-074	Frode Gjerstad Trio: A Sound Sight
 aylDL-075	Hamid Drake, William Parker & Anders Gahnold: The Last Dances
 aylDL-076	Pandelis Karayorgis Trio: Carameluia
 aylCD-077–78	By Any Means: Live at Crescendo
 aylCD-079	Gyldene Trion: Live at Glenn Miller Café
 aylDL-080	Copperhead Trio: Labyrinths
 aylDL-081	Mark O'Leary & Han Bennink: Television
 aylDL-082	New Language Collaborative: Unified Fields
 aylCD-083	Abdelhaï Bennani Trio: There Starts the Future
 aylDL-084	Marc Edwards: Ode to a Dying Planet
 aylCD-085	Eric Zinman & Laurence Cook: Double Action
 aylDL-086	Bengt Frippe Nordström: Frippe's Protocol
 aylDL-087	Realtime: In the Shaman's Pocket
 aylCD-088	Niklas Barnö, Joel Grip & Didier Lasserre: Snus
 aylDL-089	Anders Gahnold Trio: Live at Glenn Miller Café
 aylCD-090	Correction: Two Nights in April
 aylDL-091	Sebastian Bergström, Joacim Nyberg & Emil Åstrand-Melin: Correction
 aylCD-092	Free Unfold Trio: Ballades
 aylCD-093–94	Stephen Gauci's Stockholm Conference: Live at Glenn Miller Café, parts 1 & 2
 aylCD-095	Dennis González Yells At Eels with Rodrigo Amado: The Great Bydgoszcz Concert
 aylCD-096	Joëlle Léandre, François Houle & Raymond Strid: Last Seen Headed, Live at Sons d'Hiver
 aylCD-097	Nuts: Symphony for Old and New Dimensions
 aylCD-098–100	Benjamin Duboc: Primare Cantus
 aylDL-101	Jair-Rôhm Parker Wells Trio: Brotherly Love in Philadelphia
 aylCD-102	Zed Trio: Lost Transitions
 aylDL-103	Mark O'Leary & Sunny Murray: Ode to Albert Ayler
 aylDL-104	Eyal Maoz & Asaf Sirkis: Elementary Dialogues
 aylDL-105	Christoph Gallio, Dominique Girod & Dieter Ulrich: Places
 aylCD-106	François Carrier Trio+1: Entrance 3
 aylCD-107	Flow Trio: Set Theory, Live at the Stone
 aylDL-108	Arthur Rhames & Charles Telerant: Two in NYC
 aylDL-109	Abdelhaï Bennani, Benjamin Duboc & Didier Lasserre: In Side
 aylDL-110	Didier Lasserre Trio: Live at l'Atelier Tampon
 aylDL-111	Hoots and Roots: Life and Death
 aylCD-112	Jean-Marc Foltz with Matt Turner & Bill Carrothers: To the Moon
 aylCD-113	Luís Lopes' Humanization 4tet: Electricity
 aylDL-114	Jacob William Quartet: Secondary Deviations
 aylDL-115 Mario Rechtern, Eric Zinman, Jane Wang & Laurence Cook: Wakte Oglaka
 aylDL-116	Bengt Frippe Nordström: Creative Addition
 aylCD-117	Dennis González Yells At Eels featuring Louis Moholo-Moholo: Cape of Storms
 aylCD-118	Marc Ducret: Tower, Vol. 1
 aylCD-119	Marc Ducret: Tower, Vol. 2
 aylCD-120	Marc Ducret: Tower, Vol. 3
 aylCD-121	Marc Ducret: Tower, Vol. 4
 aylCD-122	Szilárd Mezei Wind Quartet: Innen
 aylCD-123	Daunik Lazro: Some Other Zongs
 aylCD-124	Stone Quartet: Live at Vision Festival
 aylCD-125	Dennis González Yells At Eels + Alvin Fielder: Resurrection and Life
 aylCD-126	Niklas Barnö, Joel Grip & Didier Lasserre: Can't Stop Snusing
 aylCD-127	Alexandra Grimal: Andromeda
 aylCD-128	Noël Akchoté, Jean-Marc Foussat & Roger Turner: Acid Rain
 aylCD-129	Théo Ceccaldi Trio: Carrousel
 aylCD-130	Sleeping in Vilna: Why Waste Time
 aylCD-131	Jean-Luc Cappozzo & Géraldine Keller: Air Prints
 aylCD-132 Matthieu Metzger: SelfCooking
 aylCD-133	Dennis González Yells At Eels featuring Aakash Mittal: Colorado at Clinton
 aylCD-134	Luís Lopes' Humanization 4tet: Live in Madison
 aylCD-135	Scott Fields/Jeffrey Lependorf: Everything is in the instructions
 aylCD-136	Théo Ceccaldi Trio + Joëlle Léandre: Can You Smile?
 aylCD-137	Joëlle Léandre & Pascal Contet: 3
 aylCD-138	A. Chennebault / V. Ceccaldi / R. Negro / T. Ceccaldi: La Scala
 aylCD-139–140	Marc Ducret: Tower-Bridge
 aylCD-141–142	Giovanni di Domenico & Alexandra Grimal: Chergui
 aylCD-143	M. Metzger / S. Daniel / G. Galichet: Killing Spree
 aylCD-144–145	Sylvaine Hélary: Spring Roll | Printemps
 aylCD-146	Joëlle Léandre: Can You Hear Me? (2015 re-creation)
 aylCD-147	Quatuor Machaut: Quatuor Machaut
 aylCD-148	Marc Ducret Trio+3: Métatonal
 aylCD-149	Sarah Murcia: Never Mind the Future
 aylCD-150	Jean-Luc Cappozzo, Daunik Lazro & Didier Lasserre: Garden(s)
 aylCD-151	Michel Blanc: Le Miroir des Ondes
 aylCD-152	Alexandra Grimal, Benjamin Duboc & Valentin Ceccaldi: Bambú
 aylCD-153	Cécile Cappozzo Trio: Sub rosa
 aylCD-154	Joëlle Léandre & Marc Ducret: Chez Hélène
 aylCD-155 Peter Bruun's All Too Human: Vernacular Avant-garde
 aylCD-157	David Chevallier & Valentin Ceccaldi: Zèbres
 aylCD-158	Bernado/Rinaudo/Mayot: Ikui Doki
 aylCD-159	Scott Fields Ensemble: Barclay
 aylCD-160	Killing Spree: Boko Boko Tour
 aylCD-161	Frederick Galiay: Time Elleipsis
 aylCD-162 Cappozzo/Lazro/Nick/Souchal: Neigen
 aylCD-163	Yells At Eels + Pinkish Black: Vanishing Light in the Tunnel of Dreams
 aylCD-164	Sylvaine Hélary: Glowing Life
 aylCD-165	E. Brochard & F. Favriou: Derviche
 aylCD-166–167	Boiron/Chevillon/Gastard: Là
 aylCD-168	Charles, Jauniaux & Mariage: L'amour
 aylCD-169	Joëlle Léandre: At Souillac en Jazz
 aylCD-170	Golden Retrieval: Départementale 985
 aylCD-171	Dennis González Ataraxia Trio+2: Nights Enter
 aylCD-172	Derviche (Brochard & Favriou): Murs Absurdes
 aylCD-173–174	Noël Akchoté: Loving Highsmith
 aylCD-175	Satoko Fujii & Otomo Yoshihide: Perpetual Motion
 aylCD-176	Didier Lasserre: Silence was pleased
 aylCD-177	Lila Bazooka: Arashiyama
 aylCD-178	Marc Ducret: ICI
 aylCD-179	Cécile Cappozzo Quintet: Hymne d'automne
 aylCD-180 Scott Fields Ensemble: Songs of Steve Dalachinsky
 aylCD/DVD-001	François Cotinaud's Klangfarben Ensemble: Monologue de Schönberg

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Record labels established in 2000
Jazz record labels
French independent record labels