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	Charles Gayle - Biography - AOL Music
		Charles Gayle made his first significant impact on the free jazz scene with a series of critically acclaimed New York performances at the Knitting Factory in the mid- to late '80s.
		Gayle reportedly taught a jazz course at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1969, where one of his students was the saxophonist Jay Beckenstein.
		Gayle began dressing as a character he called "Streets the Clown," complete with costume and face paint, whereupon he would perform his music and preach a religious message to his audience.
	music.aol.com /artist/charles-gayle/10632/biography (632 words)

	Metroactive Music \| Charles Gayle
		Gayle's style may sound cacophonous to listeners of more mainstream jazz, but it is a deeply spiritual music that he says is derived from a familiar source.
		From the alternately meditative and roiling "Parables" (on which Gayle lays aside his tenor for the piano) to the plaintive lament of "Christ's Suffering" to the soaring ecstasy of "Jericho" (here, Gayle somehow manages to play both sax and piano simultaneously), this is a music of spiritual redemption and salvation.
		Gayle is and probably always will be a Romantic warrior, metaphorically wailing at the walls of Jericho, letting his free music ring until the walls come tumbling down.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/02.22.96/gayle-9608.html (1457 words)

	Charles Gayle: Shout! (Clean Feed) \| Dusty Wright's Culture Catch
		The saga of Charles Gayle is a long and winding tale full of highs and lows.
		Gayle improvises motivically, so though he's not playing on the chord progressions, everything develops organically.
		Gayle's intensity is still high, but this disc offers a less forbidding, more accessible experience than much of his discography, making a great entry point into his sound-world for neophytes and an exciting new tack for longtime fans to take off on.
	www.culturecatch.com /music/charles_gayle (477 words)

	Charles Gayle - Music Downloads - Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Bio: Charles Gayle made his first significant impact on the free jazz scene with a series of critically acclaimed New York performances at the Knitting Factory in the mid- to late '80s.
		Gayle began playing music at the age of nine.
		In the '90s, Gayle took to performing on piano and bass clarinet in basically the same style that he displays on tenor, though the latter clearly remains his strongest instrument.
	musicstore.connect.com /artist/841/Charles-Gayle/30013935.html (571 words)

	Amazon.ca: Touchin' on Trane: Music: Charles Gayle,William Parker,Rashied Ali (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Gayle is a born again Christian and makes no secret about it, with a heavily religious content to the titles of his albums and in some club dates, monologues at the audience about religion, morality and abortion, all fueled by his religious background.
		Gayle in fact believes that the music he heard in fl churches was as free as any avant-garde music.
		While Gayle's Live From the Knitting factory sets have a strong Ayler feel, I don't find that to be the case on this one.
	www.amazon.ca /Touchin-Trane-Charles-Gayle/dp/B00000AQ38 (998 words)

	Unto I Am - Charles Gayle - Music Reviews
		The first completely solo Charles Gayle recording was recorded during a break in the Victoriaville Festival in 1994.
		Gayle went into a Montréal studio and played tenor on three tracks and bass clarinet on one, and preached while accompanying himself on drums on one track and piano on another....
		In Gayle's phrasing are hymns and sacred songs interspersed with cries from the heart that express the bond of love between God and man -- in Gayle's view.
	www.mp3.com /albums/237320/reviews.html (639 words)

	www.jazzweekly.com \| Interviews
		CHARLES GAYLE: Well, I started playing music when I was, I guess, about eight or nine years old.
		CHARLES GAYLE: Finance has something to do with it and then a lot of things was the system.
		CHARLES GAYLE: On the records, as far as labels and titles, please understand this, Fred, I don't feel like I'm a person that is trying to preach to anybody just to prove that I am a Christian or that I believe in Jesus Christ.
	www.jazzweekly.com /interviews/gayle.htm (2785 words)

	Charles Gayle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charles Gayle (born February 28, 1939) is a free jazz saxophonist, pianist, bass clarinetist, and percussionist.
		Gayle's music is spiritual, and heavily inspired by the Old and New Testaments.
		His childhood was influenced by religion, and his musical roots trace to fl gospel music.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Gayle (236 words)

	Amazon.ca: Ancient Of Days: Music: Charles Gayle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Charles Gayle, who, along with David S. Ware, is the preeminent avant-garde tenor saxophone player of the era.
		Gayle is truly committed to innovation; he refuses to rest on his laurels.
		Gayle never relies on riffs or repetition of any kind, and he always something interesting to say.
	www.amazon.ca /Ancient-Days-Charles-Gayle/dp/B00003OP3U (466 words)

	Charles Gayle
		The sound of Charles Gayle's tenor saxophone is a maelstrom of emotions.
		Gayle's link to the "free jazz movement" — whether it's the mighty roar of his four Knitting Factory Works discs, Kingdom Come, Repent, More Live and the newest Testament or his sweeter earlier Touchin on Trane (FMP) — is as tenuous as it is firmly embedded.
		The true energy that Gayle blasts out, that pulsates through his veins into yours, is that of the spiritual, the Christian.
	citypaper.net /articles/062796/article024.shtml (668 words)

	CD Review of Charles Gayle - Jazz Solo Piano on Knitting Factory @ jazzreview.com
		Gayle is a dedicated free jazz saxophonist and self-advertised former homeless person as a result of an unreceptive audience for his music.
		Gayle has a leaden style that mimics ragtime and stride of his youth with striking sharp dissonant detours into the avant-garde.
		Gayle begins simply enough faithfully interprets the haunting and elegant composition, but abruptly drifts aimlessly and frenetically into an unsettling cacophonic street scene.
	www.jazzreview.com /cdreview.cfm?ID=2052 (346 words)

	Browse by Artist: GAYLE, CHARLES
		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.
		Although he is known primarily as a fiery tenor saxophonist with a sound that blends the spirituality of John Coltrane with the free expression of Albert Ayler, his first instrument was the piano.
	www.forcedexposure.com /artists/gayle.charles.html (277 words)

	Jazz Solo Piano - Charles Gayle - Music Reviews
		Charles Gayle has gained fame as a very passionate avant-garde tenor saxophonist, but this CD is something much different.
		Gayle is reborn, temporarily, as a surprisingly effective pianist....
		Gayle does not strictly follow the chord structures and his soloing is often thoughtful and out of time, even including some atonal striding.
	www.mp3.com /albums/463930/reviews.html (360 words)

	Earshot Jazz Monthly Publication Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Gayle, speaking for his own music, is about as far from making such large claims as one can imagine.
		In recent years, Gayle says, he has very much toned down his rhetoric—due to hostility from audiences and club owners that he says greatly distresses him, but that he accepts in part because he realizes that proselytizing can be counterproductive, and in part because it costs him too many gigs.
		Gayle says he barely discusses playing with his collaborators, as he has little or nothing to say verbally that he isn’t about to express musically.
	www.earshot.org /zine-arch.asp?NewsLetterID=61 (2384 words)

	Charles Gayle + Matthew Shipp : Features : One Final Note
		Gayle sat at his stool, still as a statue, head bent in rumination before his fingers flexed, shot forward, and again crashed against the keys.
		Gayle continued for a short spell at full speed before abruptly closing both the piece and the set out to uproarious applause.
		Shipp did provide a stunning contrast to Gayle behind the keyboard, but for myself, and I think many others who were still reeling in the throes of the latter's sermon, the monolithic nature of his set was even more difficult to digest.
	www.onefinalnote.com /features/2000/gayle-shipp (1262 words)

	Charles Gayle: Ancient of Days
		Tenor saxophonist Charles Gayle seemed to rocket from the core of the earth to New York avant-jazz prominence in 1988, with a trio of records recorded in a single week and released by the Swedish Silkheart label.
		Homeless, was a literal description; Gayle had to that point spent much time living, and playing, on the streets.
		Gayle’s playing was totally improvised, his ‘compositions’ given religious or spiritual titles ("Repent", "Holy Faith", "Hymn of Redemption") after the fact.
	www.culturevulture.net /Books/GayleAncient.htm (543 words)

	Bagatellen: Charles Gayle - Solo in Japan (PSF) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The arguable crown-holder in a trioka of free jazz tenors that rose to prominence in the early 90s, he’s slipped a few rungs since in the hierarchy.
		Gayle healed from a nasty hernia, shelved his “Streets the Clown” shtick and turned his attentions largely to piano (as far as I know he still holds a regular weekly dinner gig at the 5C Café in NYC).
		This solo set comes from a summer 97’ concert and captures Gayle at the peak of his prowess and single-mindedness on saxophone.
	www.bagatellen.com /archives/row/000351.html (511 words)

	Jazz \| All About Jazz
		Charles Gayle blew down with hurricane force - the pun is too obvious - out of Buffalo.
		But this disc became something of an anomaly in the Gayle discography: most of the others were much more furious.
		There is no player on the scene today with the emotional wallop of Charles Gayle.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /artists/cgayle.htm (570 words)

	Precious Soul : Charles Gayle 3 : CD Reviews : One Final Note
		Like the Holy Trinity at the cynosure of Charles Gayle's religious faith the trio of leader, bass and drums exists as the foundation for nearly all of his music.
		Working within the surface strictures seemingly inherent with the set-up Gayle still finds new methods of stating his thoughts and convictions that are unmistakably and irrevocably his own.
		Gayle butts and whinnies but the fervor boiling just inside the long throat of his bell seems largely placated and he even strays into snatches of lyricism against the unexpected leash.
	www.onefinalnote.com /reviews/g/gayle-charles/precious-soul.asp (529 words)

	Charles Gayle : Always Born - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		On this recording, the explosive Charles Gayle trades saxophone lines with John Tchicai, who typically plays with a thinner sound in a more restrained style.
		For example, Gayle and Tchicai tear at each other throughout the raucous, 13-minute "Solid Clouds," with Reggie Nicholson's free-rock drumming egging them on.
		Always Born is more restrained than much of Gayle's later work, but his interaction with Tchicai and the fine playing from Sirone and Nicholson are not to be missed.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,91044,00.html (278 words)

	Bagatellen: Charles Gayle Trio - Consider the Lilies
		The upside of the shift is Gayle’s renewed interest in (relatively) conventional melody and a willingness to investigate standards.
		Even more impressive is Gayle’s simultaneous foray on piano and alto in the opening minute of “JesusAmen.” The program will probably please loyal fans as it does melt more musical ore than most, but others less enamored may find the brief disc length warranted.
		Gayle, and most musicians seems to be in comand of specifcally musical elements.
	www.bagatellen.com /archives/reviews/001440.html (1808 words)

	Clean Feed - Charles Gayle
		When the opportunity to record (for the label Knitting Factory, the one that “discovered” him) arrived in the Eighties, Charles Gayle was a homeless playing in subway stations for a dime.
		Everything changed in his life since then, and like in a fable made of magic and wonder he is now a star in the jazz firmament.
		With a red nose and painting in his face, Gayle acts like a sad clown in the circus of life, making jokes out of his pain.
	www.cleanfeed-records.com /artista.asp?intID=152 (256 words)

	Charles Gayle: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com
		Charles Gayle alternated between tenor saxophone and piano, and was accompanied by his regular sidemen at the time, bassist Gerald Benson and drummer Gerald Cleaver.
		Gayle's voluble free saxophone playing is backed by a very swinging rhythm section -- nothing to reinvent the wheel, but the … Read More »
		Tenor saxophonist Andrew Lamb is capable of screaming like a full-blooded free jazzer, but more often than not he prefers to work a high-energy middle ground between bop and the avant-garde, in terms of both tone and harmony.
	www.music.com /person/charles_gayle/1 (423 words)

	Charles Gayle Trio
		It's fitting that Charles Gayle should bring his trio to St. Mary's Church, since he wields his tenor like a preacher.
		Gayle has also been known to preach in a more literal fashion, launching into political and religious tirades, sometimes, in full makeup, in the guise of Streets the Clown.
		As uncompromising as he is unpredictable, Gayle lived on the streets of New York for 20 years while playing for change in the subway.
	citypaper.net /articles/2004-12-02/musicpicks.shtml (176 words)

	Charles Gayle : Repent - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		There is absolutely no one playing tenor (or any other saxophone) coming close to making the kind of music created by Charles Gayle.
		While it's reminiscent of Albert Ayler's energetic, twisting 1960s free dates, Gayle's saxophone acrobatics and stamina are astonishing.
		It's certainly not for all (or even most tastes), but those who listen fairly and intently to Charles Gayle will be rewarded.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,192921,00.html (214 words)

	Charles Gayle / Carlos Giffoni + Chris Corsano / Tim Berne + Baikida Carroll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Charles Gayle, born February 28, 1939 in Buffalo, New York (USA), reportedly participated in the free jazz scene of the 1960s and early 1970s in NYC.
		From then until sometime in the mid-1980s, Gayle was often homeless; relegated to playing his tenor saxophone on the streets.
		The story of his homelessness and subsequent fame in jazz circles can be read as uplifting; a study in conviction, perseverance, faith and survival.
	www.arsnovaworkshop.com /cgi/mail.cgi/archive/medialist/20060705123146 (509 words)

	Charles Gayle interview
		The image of Charles Gayle as homeless -- the saxophonist spent two decades playing for change on the streets of New York, often sleeping there as well -- has stuck with him.
		But Gayle's circumstances are more comfortable these days, and while he won't be featured on a smooth jazz compilation anytime soon, a strain of melodicism which had only been hinted at before has become more overt in his recent work.
		Gayle spoke by phone from his apartment in the East Village on December 30, 1999.
	www.furious.com /perfect/charlesgayle.html (3890 words)

	Amazon.com: Ancient of Days: Music: Charles Gayle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Joining Gayle on Ancient of Days is a stellar cast of players, including the spirited pianist Hank Johnson, bassist Juini Booth, and longtime Gayle drummer Michael Wimberly, who evokes outright Elvin Jones-style percussion on "New Earth." Ancient Of Days is a masterpiece of consistent, fire-breathing testimonial.
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		Gayle is the tenor king of free jazz, January 4, 2003
	www.amazon.com /Ancient-Days-Charles-Gayle/dp/B00003OP3U (855 words)

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