Ghetto Music is the debut album by American trumpeter Eddie Gale

Eddie Gale

Eddie Gale is an American trumpeter known for his work in free jazz, especially with the Sun Ra Arkestra.-Biography:Early in life, he studied trumpet with Kenny Dorham...

 recorded in 1968 and released on the Blue Note

Blue Note Records

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 label.

Reception

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".

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

• Eddie Gale
  Eddie Gale
  Eddie Gale is an American trumpeter known for his work in free jazz, especially with the Sun Ra Arkestra.-Biography:Early in life, he studied trumpet with Kenny Dorham...
  
   - trumpet
  Trumpet
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  , thumb piano
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  , steel drum, bird whistle
• Russell Lyle - tenor saxophone
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  , flute
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• Jo Ann Gale Stevens - guitar
  Guitar
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  , vocals
• James "Tokio" Reid, Judah Samuel - bass
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• Richard Hackett, Thomas Holman - drums
  Drum kit
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• Elaine Beener - lead vocals
• Sylvia Bibbs, Barbara Dove, Evelyn Goodwin, Art Jenkins, Fulumi Prince, Edward Walrond, Sondra Walston, Mildred Weston, Norman Wright - vocals