Charles Gayle

[barbie gaze]

The East Village has been transformed into a high-rise highbrow apocalypse,
but at least one vestige of downtown's grizzled avant-garde remains: jazz
titan Charles Gayle. "I walked into this because one winter, I couldn't
make it anymore, living in the squat and the cold all the time," explains
Gayle, formerly homeless survivor of New York City's mean streets of old,
now 15-year resident of a modest one-bedroom apartment below Tompkins
Square Park. He has added muscle to his formerly rail-thin, streets-worn
frame and is unapologetic about his homeless stint. "Still here," says the
trailblazing saxophonist and pianist. "I ain't leavin' this place."
http://www.villagevoice.com/2012-02-08/music/charles-gayle-embraces-his-alter-ego/
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