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Lafayette Gilchrist
“Lafayette Gilchrist lives in Baltimore but grew up in D.C., knee-deep in the city's go-go music and hip-hop. Go-go dance beats inform his piano the same way freight-train boogie-woogie does. Players like EubieBlake, James P. Johnson and Willie ‘The Lion’ Smith could keep going for hours without exhausting their folkloric materials. If there's one thing Lafayette Gilchrist loves, it's feeding a groove like that. There's something trance-inducing about dance music in general, and in the textured patterns that Lafayette Gilchrist plays at the keyboard. His two-handed piano also has techno and minimalism behind it
Lafayette Gilchrist & New Volcanoes: Move With Love
by Ian Patterson
There is no escaping one's formative years when music--and much else--leaves an indelible mark, like a tattoo on the soul. For Lafayette Gilchrist, the jazz, hip-hop, funk and soul he imbibed growing up in Washington D.C. has been at the heart of New Volcanoes since its launch in 1993. In the intervening years, Baltimore-based Lafayette has ...
Move With Love
Label: Morphius Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Cut Through the Chase; Move with Love; Bamboozled; Basta; Baby Steps; Cross Pollination Aggregation.
Lafayette Gilchrist: Move With Love
by Vincenzo Roggero
New Volcanoes è una delle creature musicali che rappresentano al meglio la visione musicale di Lafayette Gilchrist, pianista e compositore nato a Washington, D.C. nel 1967, a lungo nelle formazioni di David Murray, nuovo pianista nell'ultima Sun Ra Arkestra, grande conoscitore della cultura hip-hop, apprezzato autore della colonna sonora per l'acclamata serie televisiva The Wire.
Radio Eclectica: 360 Degrees of Jazz and Jazz Adjacent Musics
by Hobart Taylor
New Music from Robin Holcomb with Peggy Lee, Lafayette Gilchrist, Sylvie Courvoisier with Wadada Leo Smith, and folklorist John Lomax III. Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Ellen Rowe “Refractions" from Vinton's Cove (Sleddog Records) 00:15 John Lomax III “Ain't No Cane on Dis Brazos" from American Folk Songs (Self Produced) 8:51 Robin Holcomb Peggy Lee ...
Cut Through the Chase
Album: Move With Love
By Lafayette Gilchrist
Label: Morphius Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 9:01
New Music From Souter, Tampelleni & Tognola, Clarke & Zilber, And More
by Bob Osborne
A selection of new releases with some excellent vocal performances and a mix of conventional and experimental. In addition four more albums from the recent re-release of Ivo Perelman's Leo Records catalogue.Playlist Tessa Souter “A Song for You (Gnossienne No. 1)" from Shadows And Silence : The Erik Satie Project (Noanara Music) 00:00 Stefano ...
Brilliant Corners 2025: Days 5-8
by Ian Patterson
Brilliant Corners 2025 Black Box/Various Venues Belfast, N. IrelandFebruary 28-March 8, 2025 If the first four days of Brilliant Corners 2025 leaned towards long-form contemporary composition and free improvisation, the music of the last four days had a more spiritual tone, and a more heavily African-accented character. Many would say that ...
Marina Albero, George Cables, Josh Lawrence, Lafayette Gilchrist and More
by Hobart Taylor
This Thanksgiving week we are grateful for new music from pianist/composer Marina Albero, master pianist George Cables, exciting improvisation from San Francisco's The Lost Shapes and more. Playlist Diane Roblin & Life Force “ Renewed on Thanksgiving Day" from Breath of Fresh Air (ZSAN) 0:00 Mark Masters Ensemble “ Deep Pools" from Sui Generis ...
Lafayette Gilchrist: Undaunted
by Pat Youngspiel
On Undaunted Washington D.C.-raised and Baltimore-educated pianist Lafayette Gilchrist continues his idiosyncratically swinging trajectory with deep grooves, memorable lines and the gritty, unapologetic type of interplay that first brought him international acclaim on the 2004 recording The Music According To Lafayette Gilchrist. Few will have forgotten the catchy track “Assume The Position" off that album, used ...
