Exile's Gate (album)

Exile's Gate
Studio album by
Gary Thomas
Released1993
RecordedMay 19–23, 1993
StudioPower Station, New York City
GenreJazz
Length55:41
LabelJMT
JMT 514 009
ProducerStefan F. Winter, Gary Thomas
Gary Thomas chronology
Till We Have Faces
(1992) 		Exile's Gate
(1993) 		Overkill
(1994)

Exile's Gate is the seventh album by saxophonist Gary Thomas recorded in 1993 and released on the JMT label.[1]

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."[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[3]

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

References

  1. ^ Shimada, T., JMT label discography, accessed September 26, 2014
  2. ^ a b Jurek, T., Allmusic Review accessed November 17, 2014
  3. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1396. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
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