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I'm not familiar with Ayler, but I love Cecil. I wouldn't put him at Coltrane's level, but he's one of my favorite jazz musicians. A friend of mine had a DVD with a solo performance of his on it (I forget the DVD, some reunion of jazz greats or something).
We were watching it for about the 100th time when the DVD messed up and the video started skipping, but the audio remained smooth. It was the equivalent of watching him in a strobe light. Seriously one of the most spectacular moments in my life.
Davis is obviously brilliant, but again Coltrane was on a different level. Davis was a perfectly skilled revolutionary, capable of anything, but Coltrane was just beyond everything. He didn't need a revolution, he just made the world from nothing.
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