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Exile's Gate (album)

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Released
  
1993

Exile's Gate (1993)
  
Overkill (1994)

Release date
  
1993

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
55:41

Artist
  
Gary Thomas

Label
  
JMT Records

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Recorded
  
May 19-23, 1993 The Power Station, NYC

Producer
  
Stefan F. Winter & Gary Thomas

Similar
  
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Exile's Gate is the seventh album by saxophonist Gary Thomas recorded in 1993 and released on the JMT label.

Contents

Reception

The AllMusic review by Thom Jurek states, "As a leader, saxophonist and composer Gary Thomas is wildly ambitious. Throughout the 1980s and into the '90s, Thomas experimented with everything from free jazz and funk to heavy metal and hip-hop. Exile's Gate is another such exercise... The first band plays Thomas' free-spirited and aggressive originals while the second plays standards for the most part. Only Thomas would think of putting the two approaches together on one record on alternate cuts."

Track listing

All compositions by Gary Thomas except as indicated

  1. "Exile's Gate" - 9:26
  2. "Like Someone in Love" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 9:01
  3. "Kulture Bandits" - 7:19
  4. "Blues on the Corner" (McCoy Tyner) - 8:00
  5. "Night and Day" (Cole Porter) - 5:46
  6. "No Mercy Rule" - 8:20
  7. "A Brilliant Madness" - 8:10

Personnel

  • Gary Thomas - tenor saxophone
  • Marvin Sewell (tracks 2-3 & 5-6), Paul Bollenback (tracks 1, 4 & 7) - guitar
  • Charles Covington (tracks 1, 4 & 7), Tim Murphy (tracks 8 & 9) - organ
  • Ed Howard - bass (tracks 2, 3, 5 & 6)
  • Jack DeJohnette (tracks 1, 4 & 7), Terri Lyne Carrington (tracks 2, 3, 5 & 6) - drums
  • Steve Moss - percussion (track 6)
  • Songs

    1Exile's Gate9:26
    2Like Someone in Love9:02
    3Kulture Bandits7:20

    References

    Exile's Gate (album) Wikipedia