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Lafayette Gilchrist
Courtesy of Brendan McGeehan | Posted on June 26, 2019
When
Thu, July 25, 2019
7:00 pm
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Musicians
Lafayette Gilchrist
pianoAbout
Lafayette Gilchrist toured with David Murray in his octet and quartets for 13 years. He has performed with Cassandra Wilson, Macy Gray, Oliver Lake, Andrew Cyrille, Orrin Evans, Paul Dunmall, Hamid Drake, William Parker and many more. His compositions appear in David Simon’s soundtracks for The Wire, The Deuce, and Treme.
His Baltimore-based band the New Volcanoes stews in the heat of D.C. go-go, old school soul, hard funk and progressive hip-hop, with the potential for social critique and invective as evidenced by the powerful Blues for Freddie Gray. This July, he releases a solo piano album entitled Dark Matter....