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Ancient of Days

Label: Knitting Factory
Released: 2000
Track listing: Betrayal; Risen Eternal; Holy Servant; Draw Me Nearer; New Earth; Glorified Love.

Article: Profile

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 Sanders, Archie Shepp, and other trailblazers. But he says now that his sound then was even more fiery and forceful than it is now, and ...

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Article: Album Review

Charles Gayle: Ancient of Days

Read "Ancient of Days" reviewed by Robert Spencer

by Robert Spencer
May 1, 2000

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 ...

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Ancient Of Days

By Charles Gayle

Label: P.S.F. Records
Released: 1999

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Abiding Variations

By Charles Gayle

Label: FMP Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: Variations I; Variations II; Variartions III; Variations IV; Variations V; Variations VI; Variations VII.

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Charles Gayle 3: Abiding Variations

Read "Abiding Variations" reviewed by Derek Taylor

by Derek Taylor
September 1, 1999

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 ...

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