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Charles Gayle

Born: Feb 28, 1939 in Buffalo, NY

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Styles: Avant-Garde, Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz

Biography: Charles Gayle made his first significant impact on the free jazz scene with a series of critically acclaimed New York performances at the Knitting Factory in the mid- to late '80s. The tenor saxophonist's hyper-kinetic free expressionism draws on stylistic devices pioneered in the '60s by the late free ...Read full biography

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Repent

Released: 1992

Label: Knitting Factory

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There is absolutely no one playing tenor (or any other saxophone) coming close to making the kind of music created by Charles Gayle. While it's reminiscent of Albert Ayler's energetic, twisting 1960s free ...Read full review

Touchin' on Trane

Released: 1991

Label: Jazzwerkst

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This is Charles Gayle's most accessible work. Gayle's mastery of free jazz is blended with a more traditional compositional style of jazz on this disc. Touchin' on Trane is composed of five original songs, ...Read full review

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