Baltimore-based keyboardist/composer Lafayette Gilchrist, the newest member of the legendary Sun Ra Arkestra, returns with the exuberant Move With Love. The live album, out July 25, 2025 via Morphius Records, features Gilchrist’s hip-hop and go-go inspired New Volcanoes ensemble on its first release in seven years.
“[Gilchrist’s] melodic sensibility embraces the esoteric angularity of Andrew Hill and Sun Ra as much as the emotional directness of the blues.” – Troy Collins, All About Jazz
“New Orleans barrelhouse piano, the Impressionism of Ravel and Duke Ellington’s jaggy solo-piano sound form the bedrock of Lafayette Gilchrist’s style.. But if there’s one big influence on the way he thinks about rhythm, it’s the deeply swinging ‘pocket’ of a classic go-go beat.” – Giovanni Russonello, The New York Times