Lafayette Gilchrist

Lafayette Gilchrist has dug deep into jazz piano history… he's tapping into jazz's spiritual, historical and cultural roots. He's an old soul at ease in the modern world.

Lafayette Gilchrist delivered fascinating kaleidoscopes of the vigorous, the delicately preoccupied and the harmonically ambiguous…exquisite.

★★★★ Gilchrist mounts his melodic statement over a beautiful groove, which also sounds like a march. It is both opening and passing through in one fell swoop. … Undaunted continues to reflect a meditative relationship to hip-hop, go-go, and other rhythmic influences. … Whatever else ‘Undaunted’ provides, there is an insistence on taking care of the rhythm. And keeping our pulses moving.