Date/Time
Date(s) - 09/21/2019
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library
Category(ies)
- Music
- Avant-Garde
- Chant
- Festival
- Free Event
- Fusion
- Improvisation
- Jazz
- Orchestra
- Reception
- Sonic
- Symphonic
- Vocal
- World
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FREE ADMISSION
Eddie Gale’s Inner Peace Orchestra will perform his original music in celebration of International Day of Peace. All are welcome. This event is wheelchair accessible and free to the public.
Eddie Gale has recorded with Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, Larry Young, and Elvin Jones, and performed with John Coltrane, Jackie McLean, Booker Ervin, and Illinois Jacquet.
In the early 1960s he was introduced to Sun Ra by drummer Scoby Stroman. He spent many hours exposed to Sun Ra’s philosophy about music and life. Eddie explains, “Playing with Sun Ra is a great experience–from the known to the unknown. You play ideas on your instrument that you never imagine. His music provoked me to explore the use of trills, for instance, and the placement of whole tones and then a space chord–ideas you do not find in the exercise books.”
During the 1960s and 1970s, he toured and recorded extensively with Sun Ra, who influenced him greatly until Ra’s death in 1993.
After a yearlong stint as artist in residence at Stanford University, Gale moved to San Jose, California in 1972.
Helping to bring jazz into the 21st century, the trumpeter made numerous appearances with Oakland hip-hop outfit The Coup, whereby Gale’s trumpet could be heard engaging with the music’s breakbeats and turntables. In the late 1990s Eddie Gale also held regular creative music workshops at the Black Dot Café, a grassroots performance space in Oakland run by artist/activist Marcel Diallo and his Black Dot Artists Collective.