Charl Gayle Tr: Streets album review by Jerry D'Souza, published on March 23, 2012. Fd thoands jazz reviews at All About Jazz!
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CHARL GAYLE TR: STREETS
Disver Streets by Charl Gayle Tr released 2012. Fd album reviews, track lists, creds, awards and more at AllMic. * charles gayle streets *
Charl Gayle Tr. The sad clown image of Charl Gayle that adorns the ver of his latt album is somethg that jazz fans his native New York have seen for years now, as the 72-year-old mician lik to pat himself up like this for live performanc. The mic spewed out by Gayle and his rhythm sectn (Michael T.
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At 72, Gayle remas a val force. And whout overly leatg who’s and who’s out, ’s certa that Gayle is a master of the form. Deeply mted to ee improvisatn and the jazz tradn all s maniftatns, Gayle is a blazg saxophonist, a fluent pianist and, has more recently been playg the double bass.
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The tle and ver here evoke a character Gayle took to portrayg onstage back the 1990s, a b of social mentary g the faiar face of a sad clown (read Emmett Kelly or even Charlie Chapl), g a tragic face wh no edic angle to reflect on his own homels days.
But the mic wh is all new, rerd the stud this year wh Gayle heard on tenor exclively joed by longtime timekeeper Michael TA Thompson on dms and Larry Roland on bass. Charl Gayle Tr: Streets album review @ All About Jazz. The ver of Streets shows saxophonist Charl Gayle his tular clown persona, the look on his face nveyg a multu of emotn.
And that is precisely what Gayle is all about—a mician who parlays love, joy, happs, lghter and sadns to his packs a wallop his playg.