EDDIE GALE Ghetto Music 180 gram 4 Men With Beards LP reissue

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EDDIE GALE

Ghetto Music

Limited edition 180 gram Vinyl LP. 4 Men With Beards 4M 127. Stereo, limited edition 180 gram vinyl reissue. COVER: strong VG++ gatefold cover. VINYL: strong VG++ a few light sleeve scuffs.

Eddie Gale (trumpet, soprano recorder, thumb piano, steel dream, bird whsitle); Russell Lyle (tenor saxophone, flute); Judah Samuel (bass); James "Tokio" Reid, Richard Hackett, Thomas Holman (drums); Noble Gale Singers.

Originally released on Blue Note Records. The aesthetic and cultural merits of Eddie Gale's Ghetto Music cannot be overstated. That it is one of the most obscure recordings in Blue Note's catalogue -- paid for out of label co-founder Francis Wolff's own pocket -- should tell us something. This is an apocryphal album, one that seamlessly blends the new jazz of the '60s -- Gale was a member of the Sun Ra Arkestra before and after these sides, and played on Cecil Taylor's Blue Note debut Unit Structures -- with gospel, soul, and the blues. Gale's sextet included two bass players and two drummers -- in 1968 -- as well as a chorus of 11 voices, male and female. Sound like a mess? Far from it. This is some of the most spiritually engaged, forward-thinking, and finely wrought music of 1968. What's more is that, unlike lots of post-Coltrane new jazz, it's ultimately very listenable. Soloists comes and go, but modes, melodies, and harmonies remain firmly intact. The beautiful strains of African folk music and Latin jazz sounds in "Fulton Street," for example, create a veritable chromatic rainbow. "A Walk With Thee" is a spiritual written to a march tempo with drummers playing counterpoint to one another and the front line creating elongated melodic lines via an Eastern harmonic sensibility. Does it swing? Hell yeah! The final cut, "The Coming of Gwilu," moves from the tribal to the urban and everywhere in between using Jamaican thumb piano's, soaring vocals à la the Arkestra, polyrhythmic invention, and good old fashioned groove jazz, making something entirely new in the process. While Albert Ayler's New Grass was a failure for all its adventurousness, Ghetto Music, while a bit narrower in scope, succeeds because it concentrates on creating a space for the myriad voices of an emerging African-American cultural force to be heard in a single architecture. ~ Thom Jurek

 Track Listing
1. Rain, The
2. Fulton Street
3. Walk With Thee, A
4. Understanding, A
5. Coming of Gwilu, The

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