EDDIE GALE Ghetto Music USA 1stPress Vinyl LP Recor JAZ

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Super Rare Contemporary Jazz

EDDIE GALE
Ghetto Music

Original U.S.A, 1st press, matrix BNST 84294.A/B, gatefold vinyl LP record on the early white/blue BLUE NOTE label from 1968.

Guaranteed original, 1968 Jazz LP by EDDIE GALE entitled Eddie Gale's Ghetto Music" on Blue Note Records (#84294, Stereo). Nice original copy on Blue Note with the blue and white Liberty address labels and Van Gelder stamp in the dead wax.

Album Details / History :
The aesthetic and cultural merits of "Eddie Gale's Ghetto Music" cannot be overstated. That it is one of the most obscure recordings in Blue Note's catalogue — paid for out of label co-founder Francis Wolff's own pocket — should tell us something. This is an apocryphal album, one that seamlessly blends the new jazz of the '60s. GALE was a member of the Sun Ra Arkestra before and after these sides, and played on Cecil Taylor's Blue Note debut Unit Structures — with gospel, soul, and the blues. GALE'S sextet included two bass players and two drummers in 1968, as well as a chorus of 11 voices, male and female. Sound like a mess? Far from it. This is some of the most spiritually engaged, forward-thinking, and finely wrought music of 1968. What's more is that, unlike lots of post-Coltrane new jazz, it's ultimately very listenable. Soloists comes and go, but modes, melodies, and harmonies remain firmly intact. The beautiful strains of African folk music and Latin jazz sounds in "Fulton Street," for example, create a veritable chromatic rainbow. "A Walk With Thee" is a spiritual written to a march tempo with drummers playing counterpoint to one another and the front line creating elongated melodic lines via an Eastern harmonic sensibility. Does it swing? Hell yeah! The final cut, "The Coming of Gwilu," moves from the tribal to the urban and everywhere in between using Jamaican thumb piano's, soaring vocals à la the Arkestra, polyrhythmic invention, and good old fashioned groove Jazz, making something entirely new in the process. While Albert Ayler's New Grass was a failure for all its adventurousness, "Ghetto Music," while a bit narrower in scope, succeeds because it concentrates on creating a space for the myriad voices of an emerging African-American cultural force to be heard in a single architecture.

Issue Date : 1968

Cat Number :  BST 84294 - STEREO

Label : white/blue BLUE NOTE

Sleeve :
Gatefold, © LIBERTY RECORDS, INC.

Matrix :
BNST 84294.A
BNST 84294.B
with - 'Van Gelder' stamp

Vinyl - VG++
Sleeve - VG

Vinyl :
This heavy weight vinyl is in VG++ condition with one or two very minor surface scuffs on both sides. Two very clean labels with sharp and clear to read label text. Clean and undamaged spindle hole. With a lovely vinyl sheen  and super condition for it's age.

Sleeve :
This gatefold sleeve is in VG condition. This is the early Liberty Record, Inc issue. With some minor handling marks. General surface ring wear. Some corner rounding. Damage to bottom left corner of sleeve (see pic). Surface tear to top right corner on back of sleeve. Comes complete with original plain inner sleeve in good condition.

Inner Sleeves :
In lovely condition with some ageing & and very minor creasing.


Tracks

Side :1
The Rain
Fulton Street
A Understanding

Side :2
A Walk With Thee
The Coming Of Gwilu


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