Black Rhythm Happening

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Black Rhythm Happening
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Studio album by Eddie Gale
Released 1969
Recorded May 2, 1969
Genre Jazz
Length36:47
Label Blue Note
Eddie Gale chronology
Ghetto Music
(1968)		Black Rhythm Happening
(1969)		 A Minute with Miles
(1992)

Black Rhythm Happening is the second album by American trumpeter Eddie Gale recorded in 1969 and released on the Blue Note label. [1]

Edward Gale Stevens Jr., better known as Eddie Gale, is an American trumpeter known for his work in free jazz, especially with the Sun Ra Arkestra.

Blue Note Records American record label

Blue Note Records is an American jazz record label that is owned by Universal Music Group and operated with Decca Records. Established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis, it derives its name from the blue notes of jazz and the blues. Originally dedicated to recording traditional jazz and small group swing, from 1947 the label began to switch its attention to modern jazz. Although the original company did not record many of the pioneers of bebop, significant exceptions are Thelonious Monk, Fats Navarro and Bud Powell.

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Reception

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4½ stars and stated "Eddie Gale's second Blue Note outing as a leader is one of the most adventurous recordings to come out of the 1960s. Black Rhythm Happening picks up where Ghetto Music left off, in that it takes the soul and free jazz elements of his debut and adds to them the sound of the church in all its guises... Black Rhythm Happening is a timeless, breathtaking recording, one that sounds as forward-thinking and militant in the 21st century as it did in 1969". [2]

<i>Ghetto Music</i> album by Eddie Gale

Ghetto Music is the debut album by American trumpeter Eddie Gale recorded in 1968 and released on the Blue Note label.

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Track listing

All compositions by Eddie Gale except as indicated
  1. "Black Rhythm Happening" - 2:57
  2. "The Gleeker" (Gale, Joann Gale Stevens) - 2:16
  3. "Song of Will" - 3:08
  4. "Ghetto Love Night" - 5:30
  5. "Mexico Thing" - 5:08
  6. "Ghetto Summertime" - 3:13
  7. "It Must Be You" - 5:44
  8. "Look at Teyonda" - 9:31

Personnel

Trumpet musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family

A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group contains the instruments with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpet-like instruments have historically been used as signaling devices in battle or hunting, with examples dating back to at least 1500 BC; they began to be used as musical instruments only in the late 14th or early 15th century. Trumpets are used in art music styles, for instance in orchestras, concert bands, and jazz ensembles, as well as in popular music. They are played by blowing air through nearly-closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound that starts a standing wave vibration in the air column inside the instrument. Since the late 15th century they have primarily been constructed of brass tubing, usually bent twice into a rounded rectangular shape.

Roland Alexander was an American post-bop jazz musician from Boston, Massachusetts. He grew up with his parents and sister Gloria in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Soprano saxophone the third smallest member of the saxophone family

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References

  1. ↑ Blue Note Records discography accessed December 8, 2010
  2. 1 2 Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed December 7, 2010
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