Lafayette Gilchrist

Pianist and composer

Born: 3 August 1967
Washington, D.C.
Country: United States

Biography

Lafayette Gilchrist is a jazz musician who plays piano. Lafayette Gilchrist was born on 3 August 1967 in Washington, D.C.. The music is usually filed under jazz.

Lafayette Gilchrist (born August 3, 1967) is an American jazz pianist and composer. As of January 2014, he lived in Baltimore. He has had a long association with saxophonist David Murray, with whom he has toured internationally. Gilchrist leads an octet/nonet named the New Volcanoes, and a trio called Inside Out (with bassist Michael Formanek and drummer Eric Kennedy). Gilchrist acknowledges multiple influences on his music: "I come from hip-hop culture, [...] I'm not a rapper. I'm not a DJ. I'm not a dancer. But I feed off of all that. All of that's part of what I grew up in, what I grew up around."

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