Charl Gayle: Touch' On Trane album review @ All About Jazz

Contents:

• CHARL GAYLE
• GAYLE'S BOUTIQUE
• GAYLE
• THE COMPLETE DISGRAPHY OF CHARL GAYLE
• CHARL GAYLE: TOUCH' ON TRANE

CHARL GAYLE

Charl Gayle has received a lot of love on FJB, and for good reason.

From tly humble begngs, Charl Gayle has bee a legend.

GAYLE'S BOUTIQUE

That romantic tge only holds, however, if you foc on the unpromisg qut for self-realizatn through mic and strip of the hardships endured a and a half of homelsns, whereby Gayle survived by bkg a fashn more likely to repel than attract the average passer-by. This, of urse, was how Gayle refed his sound, which li somewhere between eicism of Charlie Parker, the spirualy of Albert Ayler and late-stage John Coltrane, and the off-the-walls adventurism of Arthur Doyle.

Gayle’s spiratn also emanat que unapologetilly om his relig fah (listen to the brief thank you at the end of Seasons Changg for a brief and clive claratn) and his oft-noted ristance to mercial nformy, as well as his experience, all those s ago, on the streets of New York.

GAYLE

As Gayle himself explas, “I tried to py the sounds I heard: the traffic, the fire eng, the police rs, even babi cryg.

Now, some three s after his first releas on Swen’s Silkheart label, Gayle is an octogenarian and he is still blowg his uniquely lored fire, as the two rerdgs om 2019 attt. Charl Gayle, Gvanni Barcella, and Manolo Cabras - The Alto Ssns (el Negoco, 2019) ****.

THE COMPLETE DISGRAPHY OF CHARL GAYLE

The Alto Ssns is a stud rerdg wh two micians Gayle first played wh 2011: Gvanni Barcella (bass) and Manolo Cabras (dms).

CHARL GAYLE: TOUCH' ON TRANE

From there, a wild ri endg abptly wh energy and some of Gayle’s (? The send track, “Charl’s Speech” is a ballad, softer and blier than Gayle ually lays.

In a way that seems only Gayle n mter, however, behd this aggrsive, spired abstractn ris and unrlyg pensivens and medatn. It begs wh Barcella’s squealg ar bass, soon followed by tentatively mmagg dms and a surprisgly rtraed Gayle on piano. ” Here, the group renven their origal formulatn as Gayle returns to the alto and his tnted, ntorted phrasgs overlayg a propulsive, eply synergistic rhythm sectn.

All all, a well-balanced rerdg of the enzied, clunky ee jazz that has granted Gayle renown.

Charl Gayle, John Edwards, Mark Sanrs - Seasons Changg (Otoroku, 2019) ****½. Seasons Changg is pure Gayle fire-sptg ridg atop nsely latticed, knotted grov of John Edwards (bass) and Mark Sanrs (dms).

As much as those latter releas offer some ntext particularly for Gayle’s approach, however, this November 15, 2017 ncert at London’s now legendary Café Oto documents a very different outg. Seasons Changg tak me back to my first few sps of my first Gayle album, Live at the Glenn Miller Cafe. Clearly, Gayle has still got .

And, clearly, Edwards and Sanrs have got their own thg gog on that tertw so impecbly wh Gayle’s.

Six-mut to the first piece on this two-disc live date, Sanrs and Gayle step asi and let Edwards show his angular chops. Soon, Sanrs reptur the grove and Gayle squeaks his way back to the ay, fallg to a sharp, spired melody.

Intersperse adjectiv such as “soulful, ” “squonky, ” “paed, ” and “beatific” here and there, and the scriptn above scrib the entirety of the two sets, whether Gayle is on sax or piano. This is classic ee jazz chiseled for the prent by s ( Gayle’s se, eight s) of mil history, exploratn, and awarens.