Solo in Japan


Artist: Charles Gayle

Label: PSF Japan

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"Modern sax legend and presumed bearer of the hallowed flame of Black American free jazz made his first ever trip to Japan in July of this year. He played 9 or so mostly solo (although he did play with Keiji Haino, and Japanese free-drum stalwart Sabu Toyozumi) gigs around the country to much applause from the cognoscenti. He seemed slightly bewildered by the whole experience. This is a document of one of those solo gigs. Five tracks, fifty-eight minutes. Four of the tracks feature Gayle on alto, the final one on piano - his original instrument before he took up the sax. Long-time fans of Gayle's sax pyrotechnics are going to be slightly surprised by these recordings -- that raging, barely in-control, going-through-the-wall sound has been tempered down, to produce four meditative spirituals that still burn inwardly with a smouldering intensity. Gayle never had the cleanest of tones, but the low-volume intimacy of these recordings allows you appreciate ever slur, slap and grunt -- like having him playing in your living-room. An examplary solo sax (plus some nice blurry piano) album by one of the contemporary masters." -- Alan Cummings

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Charles Gayle (tenor and soprano sax)

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