Eddie Gale

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Edward "Eddie" Gale (born August 15, 1941 in Brooklyn , New York City , † July 10, 2020 in San José , California ) was an American jazz musician ( trumpet ).

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Gale grew up in Brooklyn, where he lived in the Bud Powell neighborhood . He later took lessons from Kenny Dorham and played jam sessions with Art Blakey , Max Roach , Illinois Jacquet , Sonny Stitt and Jackie McLean . During these years Gale was heavily influenced by hard bop pioneers such as Donald Byrd , Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard . In the early 1960s he got into the New Thing movement and played a. a. with Eric Dolphy , Archie Shepp , Albert Ayler , Cecil Taylor and Pharoah Sanders .

In the early 1960s Gale worked in Sun Ra’s band , which he was to belong to until the 1970s. Gale is u. a. heard on Arkestra's 1965 album Secrets of the Sun. That year he also worked with Cecil Taylor on his Blue Note debut Unit Structures ; in Taylor's seven-member ensemble, he starred alongside Jimmy Lyons , Henry Grimes and Andrew Cyrille . Then the trumpeter played on the Larry Young album Of Love and Piece . Blue Note co-founder Francis Wolff enabled Eddie Gale to record two albums for Blue Note, Ghetto Music (1968) and Black Rhythm Happening (1969). For this, Gale put together a sextet or a nonet , to which u. a. Elvin Jones and Jimmy Lyons on the soprano saxophone, which played music between soul and free jazz with folk blues, gospel and flamenco influences. There was also an eleven-member choir, the Noble Gale Singers . The change of ownership from Blue Note to Liberty Records meant a career turnaround for Gale, as his contract was not renewed.

In the early 1970s Gale moved to the west coast of the USA and worked there with musicians from the San Francisco Bay Area . For a short time he was also artist in residence at Stanford University and later at San José State University in San José, where he lived. In 1974, he was named San Jose's Ambassador of Jazz for his services to the city's music scene .

Gale continued to work with Sun Ra in the 1970s and contributed to his albums Lanquidity , The Other Side of the Sun (both 1978) and On Jupiter (1979). During this time he also recorded other albums under his own name. In the 1990s, Gale founded the Inner Peace Jazz Orchestra . He made a comeback in 2004 with the album Afro Fire , which made reference to his Blue Note albums in the late 1960s.

Discographic notes

  • Eddie Gale's Ghetto Music (Blue Note, 1968)
  • Black Rhythm Happening (Blue Note, 1969) with Elvin Jones
  • A Minute with Miles ( Mapleshade Records , 1992) with Larry Willis
  • Afro Fire (Black Beauty, 2004)
  • Live at Vision Festival (Voidleaper, 2006)
  • In Love Again (BL Records, 2008)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ John Leland: Eddie Gale, Deeply Spiritual Jazz Trumpeter, Dies at 78. In: The New York Times . July 16, 2020, accessed on July 17, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Gale, Eddie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gale, Edward
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz trumpeter
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 2020
Place of death San Jose , California