Lafayette Gilchrist

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

> Best Jazz Musician: City Paper Best of Baltimore 2000, 2000

> Best Local Musician: City Paper Best of Baltimore 2002, 2002

> Top Ten: The Music According to Lafayette Gilchrist, 11/15/2004