Jazz Articles about Eddie Gale

Mushroom: Joint Happening

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 10, 2007

La band californiana guidata dal batterista Pat Thomas festeggia il suo decennale con un album eccellente che la vede ospitare il mitico trombettista Eddie Gale che negli anni sessanta e settanta militò nei gruppi di Sun Ra e Cecil Taylor, registrando anche con l’organista Larry Young. Un paio di album a suo nome di quel periodo (Ghetto Music e Black Rhythm Happening pubblicati dalla Blue Note rispettivamente nel 1968 e nel 1969) sono pezzi ricercati e giustamente apprezzati dai collezionisti. ...

Mushroom with Eddie Gale: Joint Happening

by Chris M. Slawecki
October 14, 2007

I'll resist any pun that might connect the words “mushroom and “joint but more than a little psychedelia wafts like incense and patchouli through this collaboration between progressive rock and jazz veterans.

Mushroom is a more-or-less underground ensemble led by drummer Pat Thomas that has explored modern instrumental rock and jazz from its San Francisco base, including serving as support band for like-minded progressives Kevin Ayers (of Soft Machine) and Daevid Allen (of Gong), for the past decade. ...

Mushroom with Eddie Gale: Joint Happening

by Robert Iannapollo
September 8, 2007

Mushroom was formed in the late 1990s by drummer Pat Thomas as a loose performing collective and has developed a small but quite rabid following. Lumped in with the jamband genre, they've never garnered quite the same amount of attention as other exemplars. Perhaps part of the reason is that they are not exclusively a jamband and not easily classifiable. One can never be quite sure what one is going to get when one purchases a Mushroom recording. They frequently ...

Mushroom with Eddie Gale: Joint Happening

by Troy Collins
July 2, 2007

The Oakland, California based instrumental band Mushroom has been blending psychedelia, fusion, post-rock, free jazz, Krautrock and grooving funk into a heady stew for ten years. Tying together their disparate influences through example, Mushroom has played with members of Krautrock pioneers Faust, Daevid Allen of Gong, Bundy K. Brown of Tortoise, and Kevin Ayers of Soft Machine.

Shades of 1970s Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi sextet and Soft Machine all make appearances, but Mushroom invokes contemporaries Sun City ...

Mushroom with Eddie Gale: Joint Happening

by Mark Corroto
June 30, 2007

The convergence of San Francisco psychedelic post-jazz collective Mushroom and trumpeter Eddie Gale seems preordained. For the past ten years the collective has been performing music in the spirit of Can, Gong, Soft Machine, and the Allman Brothers. Finding that Eddie Gale lives on the west coast certainly caused the convergence of his horn with this band.

Known for his work with Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor, and Larry Young, Gale carried forward the lessons of John Coltrane (post-Ascension, ...

Mushroom with Eddie Gale: Joint Happening

by Chris May
June 15, 2007

Here's a pocketful of magic to feed your head, lest you forgot what the doormouse said. The none-too-subtly titled Joint Happening is a psilocybin-drenched shot of late 1960s astral jazz with the funk filtered out and replaced by post-rave “tribal" beats and an art-rock keyboards and guitar sensibility referencing bands like Gong and Can. It's the deepest chunk of street jazz I've heard for a while and a stone contender for 2007's Mutoid Album From Out Of Nowhere Award. It ...

Eddie Gale: Ghetto Music

by Germein Linares
March 10, 2004

It is often difficult to gauge the relative importance or message of an artwork, years or decades after its initial release. Truly impressive are those works that not only retain their Zeitgeist, the spirit of the times, but also find relevance and significance with the present. Listening to the re-release of 1968's Eddie Gale's Ghetto Music, one not only senses the social awakening of the late 1960s, there is an equal and unfortunate awareness of our current cultural waste. Francis ...