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Eddie Gale: Eddie Gale's Ghetto Music

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Label: Blue Note
Released: 1968,09.20
Time:
 40:48
Category: Jazz
Producer(s): Francis Wolff
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.eddiegale.com
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Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] The Rain (E.Gale) - 6:30
[2] Fulton Street (E.Gale) - 6:51
[3] A Understanding (E.Gale) - 7:41,
[4] A Walk With Thee (E.Gale) - 6:09
[5] The Coming of Gwilu (E.Gale) - 13:37

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Eddie Gale - Arranger, Bird Whistle, Composer, Conductor, Steel Drums, Thumb Piano, Recorder, Soprano Trumpet

Russell Lyle - Flute, Tenor Saxophone
Jo Ann Gale Stevens - Guitar, Vocals
Thomes "Tokio" Reid - Bass
Judah Samuel - Bass
Richard Hackett - Drums
Thomas Holman - Drums

Elaine Beener - Lead Vocals
Sylvia Bibbs - Vocals
Barbara Dove - Vocals
Joan Gale - Vocals
Evelyn Goodwin - Vocals
Art Jenkins - Vocals
Arthur Jenkins - Vocals
Artie Jenkins - Vocals
Prince Falumi - Vocals
Fulumi Prince - Vocals
Norman Right - Vocals
Edward Walrond - Vocals
Sondra Walston - Vocals
Mildred Weston - Vocals
Norman Wright - Vocals

Francis Wolff - Photography, Producer
Pat Thomas - Reissue Producer
Rudy Van Gelder - Engineer
Gary Hobish - Mastering
Richard Graf - Cover Photo, Photography
Jewel Voils - Photography
John Norris - Liner Notes
Patrick Roques - Reissue Design

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1968 LP Blue Note – BST 84294

Recorded in September 20, 1968  at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey



The aesthetic and cultural merits of Eddie Gale's Ghetto Music cannot be overstated. That it is one of the most obscure recordings in Blue Note's catalog -- paid for out of label co-founder Francis Wolff's own pocket -- should tell us something. This is an apocryphal album, one that seamlessly blends the new jazz of the '60s -- Gale was a member of the Sun Ra Arkestra before and after these sides, and played on Cecil Taylor's Blue Note debut, Unit Structures -- with gospel, soul, and the blues. Gale's sextet included two bass players and two drummers -- in 1968 -- as well as a chorus of 11 voices, male and female. Sound like a mess? Far from it. This is some of the most spiritually engaged, forward-thinking, and finely wrought music of 1968. What's more is that, unlike lots of post-Coltrane free jazz, it's ultimately very listenable. Soloists come and go, but modes, melodies, and harmonies remain firmly intact. The beautiful strains of African folk music and Latin jazz sounds in "Fulton Street," for example, create a veritable chromatic rainbow. "A Walk with Thee" is a spiritual written to a march tempo with drummers playing counterpoint to one another and the front line creating elongated melodic lines via an Eastern harmonic sensibility. Does it swing? Hell yeah! The final cut, "The Coming of Gwilu," moves from the tribal to the urban and everywhere in between using Jamaican thumb piano's, soaring vocals à la the Arkestra, polyrhythmic invention, and good, old-fashioned groove jazz, making something entirely new in the process. While Albert Ayler's New Grass was a failure for all its adventurousness, Eddie Gale's Ghetto Music, while a bit narrower in scope, succeeds because it concentrates on creating a space for the myriad voices of an emerging African-American cultural force to be heard in a single architecture. This is militant music posessed by soul and spirit.

Thom Jurek - AllMusic.com



Ghetto Music is the debut album by American trumpeter Eddie Gale recorded in 1968 and released on the Blue Note label. The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 5 stars and stated "The aesthetic and cultural merits of Eddie Gale's Ghetto Music cannot be overstated... This is an apocryphal album, one that seamlessly blends the new jazz of the '60s with gospel, soul, and the blues... This is some of the most spiritually engaged, forward-thinking, and finely wrought music of 1968".
 

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