Streets is the accusatorily sad-faced clown Charles Gayle used to portray during live performances, the name a nod to the free jazz saxophonist’s homeless years. Narrowly post-dating the first wave of hard blowing, ecstatic jazz, pioneered by Albert Ayler and John Coltrane’s final works, Gayle is unencumbered by associations, free to fly.
Streets is an uncommonly accessible record by his standards, Larry Roland’s toddling bass and Michael TA Thompson’s ticklish drums coaxing Gayle to rove all around the ring, from rage to rueful rumination, rather than simply burning down the whole circus.
The red nose suits him.
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