Tag Archives: Charles Gayle / William – Touchin’ on Trane

In the first ’90s, the direct music heirs of Taylor, Ayler, and Coleman were mostly ignored by NY jazz critics, who found even more to like about the hard bop revivalists who dominated major-label documenting. Hence, the general public presence of musicians specialized in an “energy music” visual was minimal. …

Charles Gayle made his initial significant effect on the free of charge jazz picture with some critically acclaimed NY performances on the Knitting Stock in the mid- to late ’80s. The tenor saxophonist’s hyper-kinetic free of charge expressionism attracts on stylistic gadgets pioneered in the ’60s with the past due …

The duty of following Elvin Jones as drummer with John Coltrane will need to have been probably one of the most challenging situations ever entered into by way of a jazz musician. Within the middle-’60s, most jazz listeners could have assumed that Jones was the only real drummer alive who …