Lafayette Gilchrist

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Keys to the City

Lafayette Gilchrist's Dark Dream Funk

In his Bolton Hill apartment, Lafayette Gilchrist pulls a stack of photos from behind one of a dozen deep piles of scores and narrates the snapshots of vistas and parties: a landscape in Macedonia, a carved gateway in Algiers, Albert Ayler's legendary drummer Sunny Murray drinking in his Paris home,... [MORE] By Ian Nagoski 10/31/2001

Volcanic Action

The Music According to Lafayette Gilchrist

“Right now in music everybody’s conducting these experiments,” says Lafayette Gilchrist, giving an impromptu music lesson over a cocktail on a hot, sticky afternoon, one of his omnipresent floppy-hat lids covering his head. “You got people saying, ‘We’re going to combine jazz with funk and hi... [MORE] By Bret McCabe 6/23/2004

The Music According to Lafayette Gilchrist

Hyena (2004 LP, CD)
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New Jack

(2001)

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Best Jazz Musician - City Paper Best of Baltimore 2000 (2000)

Best Local Musician - City Paper Best of Baltimore 2002 (2002)

(Local Music) - (11/15/2004)