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The Wonder of Being Here
Album: Now
By Lafayette Gilchrist
Label: Lafayette Music
Released: 2020
Duration: 5:58
Now
Label: Lafayette Music
Released: 2020
Track listing: CD1: Assume the Position; Bamboozled; Rare Essence; Old Shoes Come to Life; On Your Belly Like a Snake;
Say a Prayer for Our Love; Bmore Careful; The Midnight Step Rag. CD2: Tomorrow Is Waiting Now (Sharon's
Song); The Wonder of Being Here; Purple Blues; Newly Arrived; Enough; Get Straight to the Point; Can You
Speak My Language; Specials Revealed.
Lafayette Gilchrist: Now
by Ian Patterson
For much of the 2010s, Baltimore-based pianist/composer Lafayette Gilchrist has looked to larger ensembles to give voice to his expansive arrangements. In fact, you have to go back to Three (Hyena, 2007) to find his previous trio outing. With Now, Gilchrist embraces a more intimate setting in the company of drummer Eric Kennedy and bassist Herman ...
Lafayette Gilchrist: Now
by Franz A. Matzner
Pianist and composer Lafayette Gilchrist has made clear that, in part, Now addresses the racial and political conflicts erupting across America in 2020. The music is suitably intense and tumultuous. The album demands change while also reminding us that the violence and divisions splintering the country are not new. The repression and oppression embedded ...
Lafayette Gilchrist: Now
by Geno Thackara
In some alternate world somewhere, Lafayette Gilchrist is a great modern American novelist, spinning real-life stories that vividly evoke the spirit of the times. In our world, he ended up as a comparable spirit doing the same thing in the music realm instead. His piano playing nonetheless criss-crosses the span of jazz, blues, funk, gospel, ragtime, ...
Three Rounds of Solo Piano
by Geno Thackara
Diogo Vida Inner Dance Self Produced 2020 The isolation album has sprung up as a new genre practically overnightan unfortunate if unavoidable development in the season of Covid-19. If Diogo Vida is one among many in that regard, at least where quantity is concerned, he also stands alone in having a ...
Dark Matter
Label: Lafayette Music
Released: 2019
Track listing: For the Go Go; Child's Play; Dark Matter; The Love Bind; Spontaneous Combustion; And
You Know This; Blues for Our Marches to End; Old Whale Bones; Happy Birthday Sucka;
Black Flight; Greeting.
For The Go Go
Album: Dark Matter
By Lafayette Gilchrist
Label: Lafayette Music
Released: 2019
Duration: 06:17
Lafayette Gilchrist: Dark Matter
by Jerome Wilson
It would seem almost impossible by this point for a jazz pianist to avoid common modern influences like Bud Powell, Bill Evans, McCoy Tyner or even Cecil Taylor, but somehow Lafayette Gilchrist falls outside all of those parameters. On this solo concert recorded at the University of Baltimore in 2016, he shows a keyboard style built ...
Lafayette Gilchrist: Dark Matter
by Franz A. Matzner
Recorded live, pianist Lafayette Gilchrist's second solo recording, Dark Matter, embraces the long history of jazz bound to the beat and textures of a specific time and place, rather than stylistic pedigree or lineage of influencers. Its rhythms are the jackhammer throb, subway rattle, and relentless pulse of Baltimore, Philly, and Washington, D.C. It's textures the ...