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Gayle Barcella Cabras
Live In Belgium

Album BE 2017 on El Negocito Records label
Jazz (Free Jazz, Avant-garde Jazz, Free Improvisation)

Charles Gayle remains a living embody and voice of the great African American tradition; his sincerity and intensity are recognized as unique and absolutely dazzling, live and on a recording. Each concert Gayle is the continuation of the great tradition that can still be called "free." However not in the sense of the "free jazz" some people still speak of. Gayle's mastery of that tradition is confirmed on his solo and piano work. After being invited to Belgium by el NEGOCITO Records for the Citadelic Festival in 2012, the Italian drummer Giovanni Barcella (Marshall Allen, Arthur Doyle, Bobby Few, J.J. Avenel) organized three tours through Italy and Belgium, with the Italian double bass player Manolo Cabras. The meeting of minds was immediate, the musical coesion and respect for each another reason to keep on playing and releasing this live album. "They'd stop to hear a song, but I'm not playing songs. What I hear is the traffic. Everybody in New York hears it, but it's really vivid in my head. Horns and children and birds, too – I hear them so clearly, they hit me so hard. The subway roar, the jackhammers. Not that they're so loud but they stay there. The trucks and the sirens and the screeching and the hollering and the brakes, all that jagged movement, the Arggghhhh!" Jean Claude Charles Gayle (US) about him playing on the streets of NY (NL) Charles Gayle is een levende belichaming en stem van de grote Afrikaanse Amerikaanse traditie; Zijn oprechtheid en intensiteit worden erkend als uniek en absoluut verblindend, live en op opname. Elk concert die Gayle speelt is de voortzetting van de grote traditie die nog steeds als 'free' kan worden genoemd. Maar niet in de zin van de "free jazz", zoals vaak gezegd. Nadat hij als centrale gast naar België werd uitgenodigd voor het Citadelic festival in 2012 door el NEGOCITO Records, organiseerde de Italiaans-Gentse drummer Giovanni Barcella (Marshall Allen, Arthur Doyle, Bobby Few, J.J. Avenel) drie tournées doorheen België en Italië met de Italiaanse contrabassist Manolo Cabras. De ontmoeting van geesten was onmiddellijk, de muzikale coësie en het respect voor elkander meer dan een reden om te blijven spelen en dit live album uit te geven.

Musicians

	Gayle Barcella Cabras , *2017 BE album by
	Manolo Cabras cb, *1971 BE double bass, recorded by, mixed by, mastered by
	Giovanni Barcella dr, BE producer, drums, selected drums and cymbals
	Charles Gayle ts, p, *1939 US tenor saxophone, piano

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