Lt. Patrick Gale will serve as the acting police chief for the Meridian Police Department while a search for a permanent chief is ongoing, Meridian Chief Administrative Officer Eddie Kelly said Monday. When I thanked him, he told me that I was one of the first musicians to ever thank him. As GALE remembers, "It was a different challenge. Patrick Gale, pictured on his first day at Winchester in September 1975. But it has at its heart that terrible scene of discovery and letter-burning. "a communiqu from a hidden treasure of creative jazz, a real find. YOUNG really pushed you with his organ and his unique sound.". One day my agent forwarded a letter to me. JOHN GILMORE, MARSHALL ALLEN, and PAT PATRICK helped GALE to be able to play in the ARKESTRA in the beginning. When his contract with BLUE NOTE ended, GALE dismantled the group and moved to California, returning to STANFORD UNIVERSITY as artist-in-residence. The trumpeter Eddie Gale, who worked with the likes of Sun Ra and Cecil Taylor, passed away on July 10 at the age of 78. She was happy that the story excited me. I was very like my father in so many ways Patrick Gale. High 79F. As Margaret Atwood so memorably illustrated in her novel Cats Eye, the worst tormentors begin as friends. They convened at the famed Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on September 20, 1968, and recorded Ghetto Music in one day. In 1974, he received the honorary title SAN JOSEs AMBASSADOR OF JAZZ from then MAYOR NORM MINETA for his efforts to help bring jazz to San Jose. After the late 1960s, Mr. Gales work was less visible, less a promise of a broader revolution to come. Twenty-three years earlier, while heavily pregnant with me and preparing to move the family from Governors House, at HMP Camp Hill on the Isle of Wight, to the equivalent mansion in Wandsworth, she had taken it upon herself to tidy out my fathers desk. The session was a lot of fun and it was exciting to play with LARRY YOUNG and JIMMY SPAULDING at the same time. Its 6/8 vamps with two bass players and two drummers, unison melodies in the horns, and then incredible choirs that are bringing blocks of music. Indeed, Ghetto Music is still a lightning rod record worthy of deeper study and recognition. GALE first came to California when he performed in residence with the CECIL TAYLOR UNIT and played the BERKELEY JAZZ FESTIVAL, which also featured MILES DAVIS and CARMEN MCRAE. Anyone can read what you share. His father was a plumbers assistant; his mother worked in a garment factory. Next year Eddies work progressed regarding international events, when he got to the final round of WSM 2014, and finished in sixth place. Heres WebAugust 23, 1963 (age 59) Plainwell, Michigan, U.S. Doing so ignores the community existing there, the togetherness spurred by the dearth of resources afforded to it. Alan Schneider was director. If I had to go out for a family meal or go out with mates, Id be throwing up before I went out, Id be that anxious.. Even new boys, boys younger than them, would swiftly learn to have a go at them too, so as to prove their mettle. Eleven voices were featured on both albums including CHUCK DAVIS (who later began his own dance troupe), FULUMI PRINCE (who later joined HARRY BELAFONTE), and MILDRED WESTON (former wife of RANDY WESTON). The show won the 2018 International Emmy for Best Miniseries. Instead, Ghetto Music was meant to celebrate Gales Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn and others like it. From Bodyguard to Hollywood Star. He drew notice in the 1960s for his provocative playing with Cecil Taylor and Sun Ra and on his own records. Eddie Hall has a bulky, strong appearance. Also in 2015 Hall surpassed his previous position at the WSM Competition, when he was placed fourth at the final round. All rights reserved. A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site. But The New Thing was about bringing jazz to people who couldnt afford expensive tickets and the two-drink minimum. GALE frequently visited with BUD and BUTTERCUP at their home. Traveling and performing with CECIL offered the sophisticated edge. "Zero footwork, zero defence, off balance when punching and wild, cocky swinging. It seemed the landscape wasnt ready for a Cecil Taylor-approved, Sun Ra-trained trumpeter who could play straight-ahead and avant-garde in fancy concert halls and on the street. Sometimes the music got loud; sometimes it got deeply, deeply funky. Another quoted Eddie Hall saying "Man up" and replied: "Easy thing to say when Paddy is baby tapping Eddie and Eddie is trying to punch the s**t out of his mate. Its as if the weight of injustice has gotten to him and the band, and only the faint recollection of happiness remains. The writer explains how he turned their fears, silences and Favorite projects: Annual Family Picnic, Musicians Health Care Fund, Music in our Public Schools, Sickle Cell Youth Summer Camp, Students for World Peace, Tributes to SUN RA, JOHN COLTRANE and SCOBY STROMAN. Coleman succeeded Lewis Robbins, who had been serving as interim chief since February. The luckier victims had nothing much wrong with them an embarrassingly foreign name, perhaps, or simply ginger hair and possessed enough self-control to grit their teeth and endure, or even laugh along; thus subtly becoming part of the pack and not much fun. Catch up every Saturday with 10 of our best-reviewed albums of the week, the famed Black cultural center and venue in Bed-Stuy. Following the release of Ghetto Music and Black Rhythm Happening, Gale was dropped from Blue Note when co-founders Wolff and Alfred Lion lost control of the label. Who is Gisele Bnd What happened with Sky Williams? Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, 2023 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. But he wrote me fairly saucy letters and short stories, which my mother found when I was home for the holidays. It looks like week one day, day one. ne day my agent forwarded a letter to me. I breathed not a word to my parents. He later moved to trumpet and took lessons with the jazz great Kenny Dorham. ", QUIET TIMES AND INNER PEACE (Roof Top Records), "Great for jazz lovers who are not into the typical frenetic, addictive culture. I have letters from my parents courtship in early 1950s Durham, where he was working at the prison. She came upon a sheaf of letters tucked away in a drawer, saw the first began My darling Michael and gleefully sat down to read, assuming them to be from some girl he had never mentioned. It rapidly became clear that not only did students assume we were lovers, but that he was curiously friendless. I loved him, he was always very kind to me, but we were not close, not confessional in the way I had always been with my mother. Nothing unusual there; some of my readers are of an age where they regard email and direct messaging as an unmannerly introduction. Even if he was talking to someone on the phone. 1986present. So yeah, it was a really risky, dangerous lift and the health consequences werent the best, but it was all worth it.. He loved working with young people, and they were crazy about him, Ms. Gale said. SUN RA, the disciplinarian. At this stage I had yet to move on from the adjoining school that shared Winchesters music facilities, so we met in the chapel choir. In those days, the musicians were available to young people, if you were really into it, Mr. Gale told The San Francisco Chronicle in 2006. At the age of 22, Patrick Gale was shocked to discover the reason why his parents had separate beds. He lost several day jobs because he would take his horn and practice during lunch hour and would get back late, if at all. Eddie Hall was born on 3 February 1912 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. At that point, I didnt know of anyone who was playing with two drummers and two bassists, he said. A novel about downsizing from a life of ease and upgrading to one of sleaze. GALE was also a Brooklyn neighbor of the great pianist BUD POWELL, who encouraged him to keep playing music. These days, they dont have that ability to learn directly from the masters.. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. You hear traces of Gale in the robust spiritual jazz of Kamasi Washington (who, like Gale, uses multiple drummers and choir) and the jazz-electro-funk hybrid of Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble. His first musical influence, he told JazzTimes magazine in 2007, was the Rose Hill Baptist Church and the gospel and spiritual records his family played. During the mid 60s, GALE went on to perform and record with piano great CECIL TAYLOR, where GALE learned more about different musical structures and presentations that were reminiscent of classical performances. It was all-encompassing.. Gale was introduced to ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) by DR. BILLY TAYLOR and has been a member since 1969. "Flat footed with your hands down at your waist and a training partner that curls up into a ball every time you move forward," analysed one commenter. He was 78. Compare that to the mournful A Understanding, where Gale plays in a lower register and the choir imparts a slow and solemn tone. My bully was like none of these. First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. ", "GHETTO MUSIC and the other recordings simply cannot give you more than fractional insight into GALEs ideas and capabilities in person. Instead, he used such instances to propel himself and the band forward, blasting into aggressive rhythms rooted in the tenets of Black Nationalism. He expressed that his calorie regimen is very tiring. 2023 Cond Nast. TAYLORs method of teaching you his music allows you the space to improvise openlyit is built into his structures and themes." 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"We understand the importance of stability in the department and to the citizens of the city. JOHN GILMORE, MARSHALL ALLEN, and PAT PATRICK helped GALE to be able to play in the ARKESTRA in the beginning. GALE had the opportunity to know and sit in with JOHN COLTRANE on many occasions. BOOKER ERVIN first heard GALE while he was playing at SLUGS with CECIL TAYLOR. He was an actor, known for. In 2018 Eddie appeared in Celebs In Solitary in which viewers watched him trying to spend five days isolated. In the 60s, the most famous performer of this new style was John Coltrane, the renowned saxophonist whose 1966 album, Ascension, was far different than the acclaimed, and more melodic A Love Supreme. The unlucky were the thin-skinned, the hot-tempered and the unforgivably odd. If both older and younger boy were outstanding sportsmen or committed members of the army corps, they were accorded a discretion worthy of ancient Greece. Eddie Hall has been accused of "bullying" his sparring partner and showing appalling technique after he shared a video of his latest 10-round sparring session. The marriage ended in divorce. His genius comes in many ways - unerringly controlled motion toward resolution of the tensions he so meticulously builds in space, the poignancy of his manipulations of sound, the bending and fragmentation of notes and times, the sheer depth of a lyricism that carries artist, sound, and listener as one to a final peaked consummation. Mainly sunny. But this letter proved to be a thoughtful, clearly heartfelt, two-page apology from a man who had done his best to make my life a misery at school. He is an actor and producer, known for The Expendables 4 (2023), Winter's Inferno and ROMEO. It was then that Eddie expressed his desire to retire from dead lifting competitions, revealing he was concerned for his health. Reporting on a performance, "Most of Gales music was based on strongly stated riffs built layer on layer rather than in the more usual call-and-response patterns of jazz. This is what The Rain does when Gales sister Joann sings of finding the resilience to move on from distress. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. I showed my new love in code instead, in books and bottles of whisky and in invitations to visit me in my new life in Cornwall. Eddie Hall is married to Alexandra Hall, with who he has two children named Layla and Maximus. This was Halls first taste of an international tournament, and proved to be a big challenge for him added to a back injury, as he was placed fourth at the end. Early Life and Childhood The former British Strongman Eddie was born on 15th January 1988 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. This record didnt last long though, as Eddie himself surpassed it the same year at the World Deadlift Championship. It would have seemed a little redundant. Gale, who has been with the department more than 13 years, was awarded officer of the year in 2010 and 2013 and was recognized for saving a child's life in 2013, Yet, like my mother, I found I could never tell him what I had learnt. These riffs were, in essence, very much like those that once turned on the dancers at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem or the Playmor in Kansas City. I did not have a single private moment with my father until my teens, when he retired, and I began to have tentative encounters with this near stranger now present at weekday breakfasts. Darling didnt always mean. I would sit at the foot of her bed to talk as she rubbed in her night cream. What did you make of the book?, It was lovely, she said unconvincingly. GALE first met SUN RAs family in the early 90s when he went to Birmingham, Alabama during SUN RAs last days on the planet. Thinking herself, as the wife and daughter of prison governors, well versed in such sordid matters, she assumed the revelation meant he was a paedophile, so thereafter saw to it that he was never left alone with any of us. This is where I fell in love with the different trumpet styles such as LOUIS ARMSTRONG, ROY ELDRIDGE, CLIFFORD BROWN, KENNY DORHAM, MILES DAVIS, DIZZY GILLESPIE, CLARK TERRY, ART FARMER, WEBSTER YOUNG and BOOKER LITTLE, and developed a fondness for HARRY JAMES, DONALD BYRD, LEE MORGAN, BLUE MITCHELL, FREDDIE HUBBARD, CHET BAKER and BILL HARDMAN. As he After decades in relative obscurity, Ghetto Music was reissued in 2017 and introduced to a new generation of listeners. Traveling with SUN RA is also interesting. Actor: Thoroughbreds. But that autumn I started at Winchester and was placed in the same house as him. Lt. Patrick Gale has been named acting Meridian police chief while the search continues for a permanent chief. At an early age, he recalls listening to gospel and blues, with his family. Premio John Brennan a la Excelencia en Administracin de Empresas Steven Anthony Olenick. He was introduced to Sun Ra in the early 60s by drummer Scoby Stroman, who was working with the experimental pianist. "I remember spending many hours with my friends who were into jazz music and we would listen to all the recordings that we could get our hands on. The video shows Eddie sparring, and clearly dominating a significantly smaller, passive opponent. It was the crisis of ineffectuality brought on by that, the crisis so many of us spared our parents with our silence, that caused him to contact me. Mr. Gale was also raising a family. His mental health problems not only affected the course of his education, it also affected his dream of becoming an Olympic swimmer: I was thrown out of the swimming club which was going to be my career I was always in trouble with the police, in trouble with my parents, my family, always getting into fights and, I dont know, it just f****** hit me hard.. All user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. His first two novels, The Aerodynamics of Pork, and Ease, were published on the same day in 1985. In a 2007 interview with JazzTimes, trumpeter Eddie Gale spoke about the impetus behind his debut album, Eddie Gales Ghetto Music, a record so ambitious that not even Blue Note knew what to do with it. Former Worlds Strongest Man Eddie Hall was arrested after allegedly running over someones car with a tank. Edward Eddie Stephen Hall was always an avid admirer of weightlifting athletes: I remember watching Worlds Strongest Man as a kid, and I was just obsessed with it at sort of five, six years old. To make sure you never miss out on your favourite NEW stories, we're happy to send you some reminders, Click 'OK' then 'Allow' to enable notifications, .css-n1h13z{color:black;color:#fff;}@media (prefers-color-scheme:dark){.css-n1h13z{color:#fff;}}Published19:13,18 January 2021 GMT.css-1kib7lm{color:#666666;color:#72B97D;}@media (prefers-color-scheme:dark){.css-1kib7lm{color:#72B97D;}}@media (min-width:1024px){.css-1kib7lm{color:#efefef;}}| Last updated19:14,18 January 2021 GMT. He is currently 34 years old. I had never formally come out. Hall - who's lost five and a half stone since winning World's Strongest Man in 2017 - landed a body shot that caused his training partner Paddy to cough up blood last year. WebEddie Hall was born on 15 January 1988 in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK. At the age of 8, he joined the Cub Scouts and took up the bugle. He However, Hall had to face other competitions first, including Giants Live Melbourne in New Zealand, celebrated in February that year. Mr. Gale would later work to create formal institutions to pass along this knowledge. Her next responses were stranger and more damaging. I wasnt the smelly boy goaded into losing his temper, or the posh one shrieking, yet again, as some nouveau-riche underachiever emptied his books across the floor. GALE toured on the East coast with his 16-piece group which included on guitar his sister JOANNE STEVENS, who also wrote lyrics for some of the songs on both recordings. Bjornsson made his in-ring debut in Dubai on Saturday. And, though wildly unsuited in many ways, they found a kind of companionate love, especially once an empty nest removed any pressure to function as a traditional couple. WITH SUN RA (side man) Secrets of the Sun (Saturn Records, 1965) Lanquidity (Philly Jazz Records 1978) The Other Side of the Sun (Sweet Earth Records, 1978) On Jupiter (Saturn, 1979) WITH CECIL TAYLOR (side man) Unit Structures (Blue Note Records, 1966, Enter Evening included in the Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz) WITH LARRY YOUNG (side man) Of Love and Peace (Blue Note Records, 1966) AS A LEADER, Eddie Gales Ghetto Music (Blue Note Records, 1968) Black Rhythm Happening with Elvin Jones(Blue Note Records, 1969) Ghetto Summertime (single 45, Blue Note Records, 1969) Live in San Jose (Roof Top Records, 1987) Quiet Times and Inner Peace (Roof Top Records, 1989) Live at the Knitting Factory (Roof Top Records, 1990) Rapping for Peace (single, Roof Top Records,1996) High Tech Emergency video (Professor Video, received a Tino Award, 1984) African Sunshine (single, Gross Records, 1976) A Minute with Miles (Mapleshade Records, Best Jazz Records for 1993, NY Village Voice) Water Cave Blue (new age jazz, In Music Records, 1997) Quiet Times Inner Peace Orchestra (Life Force Records, 1995) A Tribute to Sun Ra (compilation, Eddie Gale and John Tchicai on An Island in Space, plus various artists, Rastascan Records, 1994) Rare Grooves (compilation, Black Rhythm Happening, Blue Note Records, 1997) The Project movie for TV, (music and acting for Korean Broadcast Systems, filmed in-part in San Jose, CA, 1996) San Francisco Jazz Festivals First TV commercial (acting, 1995) Through Unseen Places, an award winning video (poetry by Tony Gomez, music by Eddie Gale) Eddie Gales Ghetto Music was featured on the weekly Like It Is Show, on ABC Television, New York (1968) Gales music was used in the short film Designers Approach by New York filmmaker Malcolm Whitman (late 60s) Eddie and his trumpet appeared in PC Magazines for an Epson 720dpi printer advertisement (over 1 million sold, 1994), "A suite depicting jazz music from its African origins through swing and bop to modal jazz and beyond." This project was arranged by poet JOHNNY SCOTT, radio personality BUFF POHAM, and STANFORD football star NATE KURTMAN. Partly cloudy skies. Here, the call-and-response chanting is part of a ritualistic birthing ceremony that, with its 13-minute runtime, comfortably ushers the boy into this world. His whole mission was to use jazz as way to educate people about community and Black culture., Eddie Gale, Deeply Spiritual Jazz Trumpeter, Dies at 78, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/arts/music/eddie-gale-dead.html, Eddie Gale in performance at the Vision Festival in New York in 2007. Yet nothing else he released had the groundbreaking impact of Ghetto Musica sweltering and comprehensive masterpiece, a high-water mark for Black love and freedom, a time capsule and summation of 1960s Brooklyn as a beacon of spirit and creativity. I wanted to say sorry, he wrote. t was June 1984 in a Vietnamese restaurant in Pimlico. previous 1 2 next . He also had a daughter from an earlier relationship. Only they were from his oldest school friend, who had gone to Oxford with him, and fought alongside him in the war. WebO cine de capa y espada ye un chenero cinematografico en o que las cintas amuestran como protagonista a bellun que fa servir como arma en a suya luita heroica la espada ta defender a ormino la chusticia contra la tirana.L'ambientacin d'a cinta se correspon con bellos periodos historicos concretos (abracando dende la Edat Meya dica lo sieglo XVIII u, como muito, dica He weight approximately 185kgs (410lbs), and is 6ft 3ins (1.90m) tall. While it's labelled "technique sparring", Hall is landing some meaty blows to body and head, while his sparring partner - 6ft 5in Paddy - just paws back in response. This free jazz, dubbed The New Thing, confused listeners and critics whose descriptions reeked with elitism. He played the flute and I was a precocious pianist. WebPremios de Pregrado. She simply never let him in her bed again encouraging the adoption of separate beds under a single hypocritical quilt, and then separate bedrooms. In his 2000 novel Rough Music, the lead character is the son of a prison governor. And where Gales feverish tilt surfaced in Pink Siifus 2020 album, NEGRO, Ghetto Musics inward-looking lament textured Saults emotive UNTITLED (Black Is). He said it was his personal choice to leave. Such thoughts arent surprising in this context; riots broke out in the city as a result of Kings assassination in Memphis, along with a student uprising at Columbia University related to the construction of a new gym that residents thought would exacerbate segregation in Harlem. Edward Stephen Hall popularly known as Eddie Hall is a former British strongman. Gale was born in 1962 on the Isle of Wight, the youngest of four children. Patrick Gale. One example is the tune ENTER EVENING from the UNIT STRUCTURES album. Gale was born in 1962 on the Isle of Wight, the youngest of four children. Youth/Adult Jazz Festival and the annual Concert for World Peace and Peace Poetry Contest. He drew notice in the 1960s for his provocative playing with Cecil Taylor and Sun Ra and on his own records. SUN RA dubbed GALE the original avant garde trumpeter. She never told him what she had discovered. I can think of two such boys: one deliciously upper crust and furious, the other desperately unappealing and unhygienic. Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. How stupid can you ", "The ensembledevelopedinto straight-away contemporary jazz with Mr. Gale playing a forceful, bristly trumpet, making flutters with sudden flares in a Miles Davis manner. Gale followed Ghetto Music with Black Rhythm Happening, a 1969 companion album with a nonet and bigger guest features (Coltrane collaborator Elvin Jones played drums and Jimmy Lyons played alto sax) that split the difference between funk and jazz. Id been a wildly camp little boy, much given to dressing up even for school, and an aesthetically obsessed teenager who spent all his spare time on music and acting. Its his whole life, his younger sister Joann Stevens, who sang and played guitar with him, said in an interview. Benny Dubose resigned as chief in January. In those days, the recordings were produced on SUNNYS label, SATURN based in Chicago. He recorded with Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, Larry Young, and Elvin Jones, and performed with John Coltrane, During his training process to win the Worlds Strongest Man, Eddie saw his family only two hours a week. Nothing bad happened; there was no sexual contact and, for all that I was gay and flirtatious, I believe he was no more gay or paedophilic than most teenage boys in a single-sex boarding school. GALE also serves as MUSIC AMBASSADOR for the ASSOCIATION OF WORLD CITIZENS in San Francisco. Bender said Gale told him hed left the Marines due to mental problems, was taking medication and may have been bipolar. He recorded a new version of Eddie Gales Ghetto Music in 2018, and he performed several times with the hip-hop group Boots Riley and the Coup. The scars run too deep for that. Parts of it were tough to endure if you werent of the people, and in an era where jazz was fading from mainstream view, Ghetto Music has mostly gone unappreciated. Gale joined the marching band of the local scouting troop. The Untold Truth About Twice Member - Sana Minatoz Porsha Williams' Fianc Simon Guobadia - Net Wort Benjamin Brady wiki biography. Years active. COLTRANE told GALE to never stop playing the trumpet the way he played it. That term simply doesnt hold for the men of his ambiguously homosocial generation. In Winchester he was invited to join the Quiristers in the Winchester College Chapel Choir. He said he would like the candidate who is appointed for the position to be confirmed as a permanent chief, not an interim chief. Suddenly his emotional inhibition and his complete lack of demonstrative behaviour made sense. I dont for one moment think of my father as having been gay. In 1985 he married Georgette Farley, who worked as a first responder for counseling services at San Jose State University. 8 years ago today I married my beautiful pregnant wife @alexandra_stronglife Heres to the many more years #LuckyMan Big Love The Beast, A post shared by Eddie hall The Beast (@eddiehallwsm) on Jun 9, 2020 at 1:12am PDT. But the 33-year-old Brit's boxing technique was also torn to pieces in the comments, with many pointing out that Hall looks slow, flat-footed and is holding his hands dangerously low. All these artists employ the same for us by us ethos, which, to my ear, closely resembles Gales first and best LP as a blueprint for what Black Liberation jazz could sound like. I was very like my father in so many ways. His sister said he was still rehearsing his latest band and playing vigorously as recently as April, when the coronavirus shut everything down. Nothing unusual there; some of my readers are of an age where they regard email and direct messaging as an unmannerly introduction. He grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, an area famously rich with jazz musicians. His father was the prison governor of HM Prison Camp Hill on the Isle of Wight, and he was brought up in and around prisons. There were many after-hour jam sessions where he had the opportunity to sit in with such musicians as CEDAR WALTON, WILBUR WARE, ART TAYLOR, ART BLAKELY, MAX ROACH, JACKIE MACLEAN, ILLINOIS JACQUET, SONNY STITT, CECIL PAYNE, MATTHEW G, SCOBY STROMAN, WYNTON KELLY, RANDY WESTON, WILLIE JONES AND PIANIST ERROL CLARK (who knew GALE from the BOY SCOUTS marching band). I hadnt counted on this. [4] His father was the prison governor of HM Prison Camp Hill on the Isle of Wight, and he was brought up in and around prisons. His parents were cultural activists, his sister said, with a vast collection 78 r.p.m. His music provoked me to explore the use of trills, for instance, and the placement of whole tones and then a space chordideas you do not find in the exercise books. Then, after a star turn on organist Lee Youngs Of Love and Peace, Blue Note co-founder Francis Wolff asked Gale if he wanted to record his own music.