Ben Lamar Gay
Chicago cornetist Ben Lamar Gay is one of the city's most adventurous and boundary-pushing performers with sound that touches upon avant-garde jazz, hip-hop, indie rock, Brazilian traditions, and experimental electronic composition. A member of the AACM, Gay (who also spent time traveling and living in Brazil) emerged in the 2000s singing and playing a variety of instruments. Most often, he works in the studio, layering his songs with overdubbed parts, as he did on his own Juba Dance album Orange. Over the years, he has proven himself to be an unpredictable artist with a wide-ranging stylistic ear, as evidenced by 2021's wildly inventive Open Arms to Open Us.
Raised on Chicago's South Side, Gay developed his cornet skills as a member of the respected AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians). As a solo artist, he released the album Orange under the Juba Dance moniker. From there, he appeared on albums by a diverse range of artists from hip-hop performer Polyphonic the Verbose and jazz drummer Makaya McCraven to alternative R&B artist Coultrain. He has also collaborated with Jaimie Branch, Theo Parrish, Celso Fonseca, and others. In 2018, Gay collected a handful of his own unreleased tracks for his debut album, Downtown Castles Can Never Block the Sun, on International Anthem. A second full-length, Open Arms to Open Us, arrived in November 2021 and featured appearances from Angel Bat Dawid, Ohmme, Tomeka Reid, Tommaso Moretti, and others.
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Discografia
15 álbum(ns) • Ordenado por Mais vendidos
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Open Arms to Open Us
Jazz - Lançado por International Anthem - Nonesuch em 19 de nov. de 2021
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Certain Reveries
Folk - Lançado por International Anthem em 11 de nov. de 2022
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Downtown Castles Can Never Block the Sun
Electronic - Lançado por International Anthem em 4 de mai. de 2018
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Aunt Lola and the Quail
Jazz - Lançado por International Anthem - Nonesuch em 9 de nov. de 2021
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Sometimes I Forget How Summer Looks on You (feat. Ohmme)
Jazz - Lançado por International Anthem - Nonesuch em 22 de set. de 2021
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Oh Great Be The Lake
Jazz - Lançado por International Anthem - Nonesuch em 6 de out. de 2021
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Mestre Candeia's Denim Hat
Jazz - Lançado por International Anthem - Nonesuch em 21 de out. de 2021
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East of the Ryan
Blues - Lançado por International Anthem em 30 de dez. de 2019
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Benjamim e Edinho
Jazz - Lançado por International Anthem em 7 de dez. de 2018
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Confetti in the Sky Like Fireworks (This Is Bate Bola OST)
Film Soundtracks - Lançado por International Anthem em 15 de mar. de 2019
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Água Futurism
Folk - Lançado por International Anthem em 19 de out. de 2022
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Freddie Douggie: Live on Juneteenth (Live)
Freddie Douggie, Ben Lamar Gay, Jayve Montgomery
Gospel - Lançado por International Anthem em 19 de jun. de 2019
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A Saída (feat. Flavio dos Prazeres)
R&B - Lançado por International Anthem em 27 de fev. de 2019
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