Ghetto Music

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Ghetto Music
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Studio album by
Eddie Gale
Released1968
RecordedSeptember 20, 1968
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre Avant-garde jazz, soul jazz, free jazz, folk jazz
Length40:48
Label Blue Note
Producer Francis Wolff
Eddie Gale chronology
Ghetto Music
(1968)		 Black Rhythm Happening
(1969)

Ghetto Music is the debut album by American trumpeter Eddie Gale recorded in 1968 and released on the Blue Note label. [1]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Pitchfork 9.4/10 [3]

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 5 stars and stated "The aesthetic and cultural merits of Eddie Gale's Ghetto Music cannot be overstated... This is an apocryphal album, one that seamlessly blends the new jazz of the '60s with gospel, soul, and the blues... This is some of the most spiritually engaged, forward-thinking, and finely wrought music of 1968". [2] In 2022, in a contemporary review, Pitchfork (website) called the album 'a spiritually charged masterpiece .., a controlled and chaotic blend of free jazz, meditative soul, and gospel' and awarded it a 9.4 out of 10. [4]

Track listing

All compositions by Eddie Gale
  1. "The Rain" – 6:30
  2. "Fulton Street" – 6:51
  3. "A Understanding" – 7:41
  4. "A Walk With Thee" – 6:09
  5. "The Coming of Gwilu" – 13:37
  • Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on September 20, 1968.

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Blue Note Records discography accessed December 7, 2010
  2. 1 2 Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed December 7, 2010
  3. ↑ Moore, Marcus (22 May 2022). "Eddie Gale: Ghetto Music". Pitchfork . Retrieved 22 May 2025.
  4. ↑ "Eddie Gale: Ghetto Music". Pitchfork .
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