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Eddie Gale was born Edward Gale Stevens Jr. on August 15, 1941 in Brooklyn, New York. Early in life, he studied trumpet with Kenny Dorham. In the early 1960s he was introduced to Sun Ra by drummer Scoby Stroman and spent many hours exposed to Sun Ra’s philosophy about music and life. That experience has enabled him to play ideas he could have never imagined or find in extreme books. Throughout the Sixties and Seventies Eddie toured and recorded extensively with Sun Ra until Ra’s death in 1993.

Helping to bring jazz into the 21st century, the trumpeter made numerous appearances with Oakland hip-hop outfit The Coup, whereby Gale’s trumpet could be heard engaging with the music’s break beats and turntables. In the late 1990s Eddie Gale also held regular creative music workshops at the Black Dot Café, an Oakland grassroots performance space ran by artist/activist Marcel Diallo and his Black Dot Artists Collective.

Trumpeter Eddie Gale, known for his work in free jazz, has recorded five albums as a leader and also recorded and performed as a sideman with Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, Larry Young, Elvin Jones, John Coltrane, Jackie McLean, Booker Ervin and Illinois Jacquet among others. He continues to perform and record.