Lafayette Gilchrist

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With David Murray Class Struggle at the INNtöne Jazzfestival 2018

Lafayette F. Gilchrist (born August 3, 1967 ) is an American jazz pianist and composer .

Life

Lafayette Gilchrist 2008

Gilchrist grew up in Baltimore , studied at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County . An early mentor was the music teacher Carl Grubbs in the early 1990s . He began his career as a composer for the US TV series The Wire ; he then worked u. a. with David Murray ( Live in Berlin - Black Saint Quartet , 2008), Mihály Dresch , Louis Moholo , Sabir Mateen , Gerald Cleaver and Hamid Drake . In 2004 he presented his debut album The Music According to Lafayette Gilchrist with Hyena Records after he had released two self-distributed albums before 2002. In 2006 he participated in the remix of Benny Golson's Minor Vamp (Basement Boys Remix), which was released on the sampler Re-Bop: The Savoy Remixes . William Parker recorded two of his compositions in 2010 ( I Plan to Stay a Believer, If There's a Hell Below ). His film composition Assume the Position appeared in 2008 on the Nonesuch compilation The Wire "... And All the Pieces Matter" - Five Years of Music from The Wire .

Gilchrist is currently working with his trio Inside Out (with Michael Formanek and Eric Kennedy ), his band The New Volcanoes and an octet that includes go-go, soul, funk and hip-hop.

Awards

His album Soul Progression won the 2008 Independent Music Awards . In 2011 he was nominated for the Baker Artists Awards from the William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund .

Discography

  • The Music According to Lafayette Gilchrist (2006)
  • Towards a Shining Path (2005)
  • Three (2007)
  • Soul Progression (2008)

Web links

Commons : Lafayette Gilchrist  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

+ Lafayette Gilchrist at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lafayette Gilchrist on radaris.com (English), accessed November 16, 2012
  2. ↑ a b Lafayette Gilchrist at Discogs (English)
  3. ↑ Report by Baynard Woods in What Weekly (Baltimore) 2011 ( Memento of the original from August 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / whatweekly.com
personal data
SURNAME Gilchrist, Lafayette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gilchrist, Lafayette F.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd August 1967