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Eric Gale

Born: September 20, 1938

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Born in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York to an American mother and British father. Eric grew up in a time when interracial marriages were not widely accepted; however, growing up his father always ensured his family's safety. Eric grew up around his father's friends who were Sicilian and was baptised and raised Catholic. Eric's mother was Christian, born and raised in Alabama.She and her family migrated to Brooklyn in the early 1900's. He had two younger brothers, who were a decade younger than him. Eric's childhood included holidays spent visiting family in the UK, giving him a unique perspective on the world. Fluent in Spanish and German, Eric had a diverse linguistic background.

Shabaka Hutchings At Barbican Hall

by Chris May
May 13, 2024

Shabaka Hutchings Barbican HallPerceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its GraceLondon May 9, 2024 Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes ... London's Shabaka Hutchings has become best known for his incendiary open-the-gates work on tenor saxophone with Sons Of Kemet, The Comet Is Coming and the South African-based Shabaka & The Ancestors. But ...

Vasilis Xenopoulos Paul Edis Quartet: Feels Like Home

by Neil Duggan
May 10, 2024

The various meanings of home are the themes behind Feels Like Home--somewhere to belong to, a place to rejoin loved ones, a birthplace. This is the second album from Vasilis Xenopoulos and Paul Edis. They began playing together 20 years ago, when they both relocated to London to study. It follows on from A Narrow Escape ...

Take Five with Pianist Marta Karassawa

by AAJ Staff
May 8, 2024

Meet Marta Karassawa Marta Karassawa, a Brazilian pianist and arranger, graduated from Berklee College of Music and formed the Marta Karassawa Quintet in 2001, bringing to light the nostalgia of the great jazz quintets of the '40s and '50s. With it, she performed on the stages of various clubs and festivals. Now, completely revamped, she leads ...

The Core: Roots

by Mark Corroto
May 6, 2024

It has been over a decade since a release from the Norwegian jazz band The Core. Founded in 2001, the quartet released half a dozen albums before mostly going their separate ways. Saxophonist Kjetil Møster worked with Gard Nilssen, Mats Gustafsson, and Per Zanussi, pianist Erlend Slettevoll with Hedvig Mollestad and Petter Wettre, bassist Steinar Raknes ...

Alina Bzhezhinska & Tony Kofi: Altera Vita

by Chris May
May 5, 2024

Harpist Alina Bzhezhinska and saxophonist Tony Kofi's musical partnership began in 2015 and two years later made the main stage of the London Jazz Festival, opening the bill of A Concert For Alice And John at the Barbican concert hall. Also appearing, saxophonist Denys Baptiste's quartet and, top of the bill, Pharoah Sanders' quartet. It was ...

Antonio Flinta: Anger, Commitment and Love

by Dan McClenaghan
May 4, 2024

Chilean-born pianist Antonio Flinta, based now in Italy, catches the ear with his solo piano presentations. His alone-at-the-keyboard albums include Secret Of A Kiri Tree (2022) and 2023's marvelous Peripheral Songs's--both self-produced discs that make a great argument for self-production; they can sit on a serious listening shelf with Keith Jarrett, Kenny Werner or Marc Copland. ...

Julian Siegel Quartet At Magy's Farm

by Ian Patterson
May 3, 2024

Julian Siegel Quartet Magy's Farm Dromara, N. Ireland April 27, 2024 Johannes Weege, co-founder of German jazz club Doubletime had traveled all the way from Hamelin. Apart from Double Time, the medieval town is famed for the story of the Pied Piper, who lured the town's children away with his hypnotic ...

Ghost Trees: Intercept Method

by Mark Corroto
April 27, 2024

John Coltrane and Rashied Ali might not have been the first to record as a free jazz duo with Interstellar Space (Impulse!,1974), but the pair did set the bar for future performances from the likes of Frank Lowe and Rashied Ali, Peter Brötzmann/Peeter Uuskyla, Anthony Braxton/Max Roach, and Joe McPhee/Hamid Drake. Admittedly, this genre of music ...

Does Jazz History Weigh Too Heavily on Today’s Practitioners?

by Ian Patterson
April 24, 2024

It is no outlandish claim to say that jazz is obsessed with its past--just look at the number of tribute albums, songs and concerts inspired by the music's forbearers, or at the never-ending stream of historical reissues. For many jazz musicians, navigating jazz means honoring the music's “ancestors" and playing “in the tradition." Jazz ...