Black Rhythm Happening is the second 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 1969 and released on the Blue Note

Blue Note Records

Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards. It derives its name from the characteristic "blue notes" of jazz and the blues. At the end of the 1950s, and in the early 1960s, Blue Note headquarters...

 label.

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

Ghetto Music

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

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".

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
   • Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on May 2, 1969.

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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• Roland Alexander
  Roland Alexander
  Roland Alexander was an American post-bop jazz musician from Boston, Massachusetts.Alexander played tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, and piano. He graduated with a bachelor's degree from the Boston Conservatory and then moved to New York City in 1958...
  
   - soprano saxophone
  Soprano saxophone
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  , flute
  Flute
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   (tracks 1-5, 7 & 8)
• Jimmy Lyons
  Jimmy Lyons
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   - alto saxophone
  Alto saxophone
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   (tracks 1-5, 7 & 8)
• Russell Lyle - tenor saxophone
  Tenor saxophone
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  , flute (tracks 1-5, 7 & 8)
• Jo Ann Gale Stevens - guitar
  Guitar
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  , vocals  (tracks 1-5, 7 & 8)
• Henry Pearson, Judah Samuel - bass
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• Elvin Jones
  Elvin Jones
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    - drums
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• John Robinson
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   - African drums (tracks 1-5, 7 & 8)
• Sylvia Bibbs, Charles Davis, Paula Nadine Larkin, William Norwood, Fulumi Prince, Carol Ann Robinson, Sondra Walston - vocals (tracks 1-5, 7 & 8)