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Andrew Cyrille & Bill McHenry: Proximity
by Glenn Astarita
The story behind this duo setting by legendary drummer Andrew Cyrille and venerable tenor saxophonist Bill McHenry was initiated by Max Koslow who routinely attends New York City's fabled Village Vanguard venue on Thursday evenings. After hearing the twosome perform, he proposed they record a set in the studio for his nascent Brain Schism Productions. Indeed, the artists' synergy comes into full swing from the onset for a production that clocks in at 38-minutes. McHenry's full-bodied tenor sound ...
Continue ReadingAndrew Cyrille / Haitian Fascination: Route de Freres
by Raul d'Gama Rose
To experience ecstasy without the memory of it would certainly be a travesty. Fortunately, it may now be possible to have both--to have the near-perfect memory of being in the throes of ecstasy--and it is all because of the music on Route de Frères by Andrew Cyrille and Haitian Fascination. More specifically, it is because of the character of “Jean" in the miraculous little Vodou piece which opens the album. It is the relentless and remarkable tapping of percussionists Frisner ...
Continue ReadingAndrew Cyrille & Haitian Fascination: Route de Freres
by Nic Jones
Defying preconceived notions, a band featuring two highly persuasive advocates of the free and the near-free has produced a record of warm and winning world music potent enough to lift the spirit in the depths of winter. The band is named Haitian Fascination for a very good reason. Not only is drummer Andrew Cyrille the son of a Haitian mother, he's always been a player able to light fires under anything. On this occasion his rhythmic vitality ...
Continue ReadingAndrew Cyrille / Haitian Fascination: Route de Freres
by Dave Wayne
Despite all of the cross fertilization that's taken place over the decades between the US and the various island nations of the Caribbean, it could be argued that the jazz world hasn't really dealt with the music of Haiti in any fundamental way. Andrew Cyrille--who's drawn on his Haitian heritage throughout his career as a solo artist and drummer for the likes of Cecil Taylor, David Murray, and John Carter--blends Haitian rhythms with jazz improvisation on Route de Freres.
Continue ReadingAndrew Cyrille: Tell Us Only the Beautiful Things; Opus de Life & The Dark Tree
by Clifford Allen
Walt DickersonTell Us Only the Beautiful ThingsWhynot-Candid1975 (2009) Profound Sound TrioOpus De LifePorter2009 Horace TapscottThe Dark TreeHat Hut1991 (2009) Percussionist Andrew Cyrille was one of the few drummers who could have propelled the particularly high-energy music of the Cecil Taylor Unit during its dense zenith of ...
Continue ReadingTrio 3 + Geri Allen: At This Time
by Chris May
The publicity surrounding the release of At This Time is making much of the addition of a pianist to Trio 3's saxophone, bass and drums line-up. Arguably, however, the inclusion of a keyboard, played by Geri Allen, isn't the album's most significant feature. True, during the course of the group's 23-year history, most of its work has been piano-less. But its unofficial curtain-raiser, Synthesis (Leo, 1986), made under bassist Reggie Workman's name, featured pianist Marilyn Crispell alongside the trio of ...
Continue ReadingAndrew Cyrille - Armando Battiston: The Contact
by AAJ Italy Staff
Armando Battiston è autore e polistrumentista che spazia da opere colte di taglio contemporaneo a musiche per teatro ed altri eventi artistici, da performance con poeti e scultori a lavori jazzistici, dove evidenzia la sua natura poliedrica, capace di coniugare le tradizioni del pianismo d'anteguerra con quello moderno e d'avanguardia. Il duo col magistrale percussionista Andrew Cyrille è uno dei suoi progetti attuali (un altro è il quintetto Echos comprendente Hamid Drake e William Parker) ed è particolarmente interessante. La ...
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