Time Zones
by Charles Gayle£8.92 Free Shipping
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- Released
- 16/03/2006
- Music Genre
- Folk
Description
Personnel: Charles Gayle (piano).
Avant-garde jazz musician Charles Gayle made his name in the 1960s and '70s as an incendiary horn player. However, on this 2006 set of solo pieces, he confines himself to piano. Or perhaps confines isn't a good word--Gayle's style incorporates a solid musical technique, laced with modernist flourishes, and his frequently inspired improvisations often soar off on stratospheric free music tangents. More relaxed and lyrical than his often frenetic previous solo keyboard outing, 2001's JAZZ SOLO PIANO, TIME ZONES contains gems like the meditative "Rush to Sunrise" and the down-home "Blues in Mississippi" that reveal the onetime homeless street performer to have lost none of his improvisational fire and intelligence.
Avant-garde jazz musician Charles Gayle made his name in the 1960s and '70s as an incendiary horn player. However, on this 2006 set of solo pieces, he confines himself to piano. Or perhaps confines isn't a good word--Gayle's style incorporates a solid musical technique, laced with modernist flourishes, and his frequently inspired improvisations often soar off on stratospheric free music tangents. More relaxed and lyrical than his often frenetic previous solo keyboard outing, 2001's JAZZ SOLO PIANO, TIME ZONES contains gems like the meditative "Rush to Sunrise" and the down-home "Blues in Mississippi" that reveal the onetime homeless street performer to have lost none of his improvisational fire and intelligence.
Product Details
- Artist
- Charles Gayle
- Number of Discs
- 1
- Recording Environment
- Studio
- Label / Studio
- TOMPKINS SQUARE
- Media Content Format
- Album
- Original year of release
- 2006
- Media Format
- Audio CD
- Year of release
- 2006
- Cast & Crew
- Charles Gayle (Music Performer)
Press Reviews
Unexpectedly infused with premodern devices from stride, blues and swing, it contains moments of coherence and even fractured lyricism. JazzTimes (p.142)
It's a fine and involving record, all originals and all beautifully played. The Wire (p.45)
Tracklisting
Disc 1:
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Time Zones
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Rush to Sunrise
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Delight
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Blues in Mississippi
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Rhythm Twins
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Inner Edges
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That Memory
