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Charles Gayle: Ancient of Days
by Robert Spencer
Charles Gayle is the ultimate power tenor man. Most of his recordings, notably Repent, Consecration, and More Live at the Knitting Factory are vats of molten lead, music to go through the wall headfirst. He's a master of the altissimo register of the tenor, and of the screams and cries that, he says, come straight out ...
Abiding Variations
Label: FMP Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: Variations I; Variations II; Variartions III; Variations IV; Variations V; Variations VI; Variations VII.
Charles Gayle 3: Abiding Variations
by Derek Taylor
Often denigrated and lauded in equal measure, Charles Gayle is perhaps the most iconoclastic jazz musician of the 90's. His penchant for fundamentalist-grounded religious diatribes and earlier bouts with homelessness frequently garner as much press as his monolithic musical prowess. He is a master at inciting both heated vocal reaction and awe-struck, gaping stares among his ...


