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All
music composed by Charles Gayle
Recorded live by Jost Gebers and Jonas Bergler
during a 'Free Concert' on August 20, 1993 at the 'Rathaus
Charlottenburg' in Berlin.
Produced by Jost Gebers
Layout:
Photos: Dagmar Gebers, Helma Schleif
Liner
notes: Hans-Jürgen Schaal
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published in November 1997 |
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Excerpt
from the booklet:
There´s a certain man who compares himself to a boxer, a steel
worker, a demolition squad. Somebody who wants (…) to tear
down walls, move mountains, part the waves, who wants to fling
open heaven´s door with a saxophone. Somebody who plays against
the cold, the hunger and homelessness, against emptiness,
petrification and the loss of hope; who play with biblical
power: without compromise, without compassion, radical. Blasts
out sheer energy.
This man is CHARLES GAYLE, born 1939 in Buffalo, the last
prophet of Free Jazz. For twenty years he has struggled through
as a street musician in Mammoth New York. (...) CHARLES GAYLE
has played for his life, and this is the extreme, frightening
truth of his music. He has learnt about the instrument, he
has taught Jazz at university, but in order to play like he
does, you need a different set of experiences. (..) His saxophone
playing (…) does not come from a particular school, it is
based on mental energy. It is not about right intonation,
about changes and phrasing, here it´s about sound unlimited.
(…)
Before him others have stormed heavens at the saxophone untiringly
until their death, John Coltrane and Albert Ayler. Like these
two, GAYLE refers to the power emerging from black spirituality.
(…) In GAYLE´s Christianity there is still the power of the
magic oath, the ritual forcing of evil spirits, a belief that
moves mountains. (…) |
Hans-Jürgen
Schaal
Translation: Isabel Seeberg / Paul Lytton
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