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Charles Gayle

Born: February 28, 1939

Charles Gayle blew down with hurricane force - the pun is too obvious - out of Buffalo. He drifted in and out of the first great free jazz scenes of the Sixties, playing with Pharoah, Archie Shepp, and other trailblazers. But he says now that his sound then was even more fiery and forceful than it is now, and he couldn't get a recording date. He drifted. He became homeless. He lived as a squatter in an abandoned Lower East Side tenement. He found Jesus.

He kept playing. His music retained its hard industrial edge. It sent listeners through the wall. It busted them out of the day-to-day grind into a divine ecstasy. It lifted and uplifted. He developed a tremendous facility with the upper- upper register of the tenor saxophone, so that he could take his spiritual flights to their farthest reaches. He played wherever he could; his steadiest gig was in the New York subways.

Combustible Mix of Post Bop From the Last Century As Well As New Releases

by Jon Greenbaum
September 29, 2026

Archie Shepp, Bill Dixon, World Sax, Chico Freeman and The Art Ensemble along with a bunch of exciting new releases.Playlist Carmen Quill “Plaza" from Harmless (Ruination Record Co.) 00:00 Henry Threadgill / Vijay Iyer / Dafnis Prieto “I Wanted A Map" from Fifteen (Nonesuch Records) 00:05:26 Art Ensemble of Chicago “Proverbes (I-II-III)" from Les ...

Vilnius Mama Jazz 2026

by Ian Patterson
June 11, 2026

Vilnius Mama Jazz Lithuanian National Drama Theatre25th Edition Vilnius. LithuaniaMay 22-24, 2026 Vilnius Mama Jazz turned 25. In festival terms that is early middle age. When you consider that 25 years is roughly a quarter of the entire history of jazz, the significance of the milestone assumes greater meaning.

Javier Nero, Aaron Irwin, Stephen Emmer, Karen Stachel & Norbert Stachel

by Cheryl K.
February 26, 2026

During this week's two-hour program of jazz and improvised music, selections from new recordings by composer/educator/trombonist Dr. Javier Nero and his Jazz Orchestra; reed player/composer Aaron Irwin and his Trio; Irish guitarists Orlando Molina and Louis Stewart (another reissue from Livia Records); pianist/composer/producer Stephen Emmer; double bassist/composer Giuseppe Bassi; and flautist/vocalist Karen Stachel and reed player ...

Music For An Imaginary Ballet

By Arkady Gotesman

Label: NoBusiness Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Stiklo gabaliukai; It's coming; Duo 1; Trio 1; Duo 2; Quartet; Trio 2; 7th Track; Duo 3; Duo 4; Trio 2; Stiklo gabaliukai

Arkady Gotesman: Music For An Imaginary Ballet

by Ieva Pakalniškytė
December 6, 2025

Arkady Gotesman occupies a singular position in Lithuanian music scene, having performed across more than fifty international festivals and concerts as a percussionist, composer and interdisciplinary artist whose work spans jazz, contemporary classical repertoire, free improvisation, theatre, literature and film. Over four decades he has collaborated with an exceptional range of musicians--from Vyacheslav Ganelin, Petras Vysniauskas, Liudas ...

Larry Stabbins & Mark Sanders: Cup & Ring

by John Sharpe
July 28, 2025

Inspired by the 5000 year old Neolithic rock carvings pictured on the sleeve, Cup & Ring opens and closes with brooding, ritualistic pieces in which Larry Stabbins' breathy flute drifts like mist over Mark Sanders' deliberate, processional percussion. These atmospheric bookends, along with similarly spare interludes throughout, frame a set grounded more deeply in the language ...

The 1,400th Edition Of One Man’s Jazz

by Maurice Hogue
March 3, 2025

When you're older than dirt like I am, each show completed is a milestone, and happily, I'm still around to arrive at 1,400 in the life of this show. For some of these milestones, I try to do something a little different. I always say this show is about the music and the people who make ...

John Sharpe's Best Releases of 2024

by John Sharpe
January 3, 2025

From the 200 or so discs that I heard in 2024, here are the ten new issues and three gems saved from obscurity, which gave me the most pleasure. As always these selections are entirely subjective, and take no account of the many other albums which I would no doubt have loved if I had heard ...

Albert Ayler: Live Greenwich Village to Love Cry Revisited

by Giuseppe Segala
December 2, 2024

Nel 1996, quando fu pubblicata la prima edizione della sua biografia dedicata ad Albert Ayler, Spirits Rejoice!, il contrabbassista e musicologo tedesco Peter Niklas Wilson scriveva nella prefazione: “La sua musica resta controversa: per alcuni fu un profeta, per altri un ciarlatano. (...) Ayler resta oggi tanto controverso quanto esile è la base per una discussione ...